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Novelist Emmanuel Dongala on Exile

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Kurt Andersen and Congolese novelist Emmanuel Dongala look at the lives and work of composers, writers, and musicians who left their native homelands and sought refuge in the United States. Dongala was born in the Congo Republic and educated in the United States and France. In 1997, civil war in the Congo forced him to […]

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Some persecuted writers get a new life in the US. But exile isn’t easy.

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