Writing of the unputdownable and unforgettable epic Segu, Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo once praised her as an extraordinary storyteller...
One is never on steady ground with Conde; she is not an ideologue, and hers is not the kind of liberal, safe, down-the-line morality...
When I came to study in France I discovered people's prejudices. People believed I was inferior just because I was black... The colour of my skin didn't matter—what matters is in your brain and in your heart.
In 1958, she married the Guinean actor Mamadou Conde, a decision she later admitted was a means of regaining status as a black single mother... Within months their relationship was strained...
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