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Literature & Cinema
West Africa punches above its weight when it comes to the arts. Nigeria's writers have
been celebrated as some of Africa's finest throughout the English-speaking world,
while names like Côte d'Ivoire's Ahmadou Kourouma have found an appreciative
audience in Francophone circles. West Africa's world-renowned film festival has
provided a vehicle for some of the most impressive cinematic output on the continent.
A particularly incisive account of the clash between modern and traditional views on polygamy is given in
So Long a Letter,
an especially fine novel written in the voice of a widow by Senegalese author Mariama Bâ.
