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Novelist Emmanuel Dongala on Exile

Arts, Culture & Media

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 […]

Emmanuel Dongala

Arts, Culture & Media
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