Boubacar Boris Diop


Boubacar Boris Diop is a Senegalese novelist, journalist and screenwriter. His best known work, Murambi, le livre des ossements, is the fictional account of a notorious massacre during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. He is also the founder of Sol, an independent newspaper in Senegal, and the author of many books, political works, plays and screenplays. Doomi Golo is one of the only novels ever written in Wolof; it deals with the life of a Senegalese Wolof family. The book was published by Papyrus Afrique, Dakar.

Life and career

Boubacar Boris Diop was born in Dakar in 1946. He taught literature and philosophy in several Senegalese high schools. He became technical advisor at the Cultural Ministry of Senegal. He began working as a journalist and writer, writing for local newspapers, the Swiss magazine Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Paris-based magazine Afrique, perspectives et réalités.

Work

Boubacar Boris Diop is a writer. His book Murambi, le livre des ossements was written for the Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoire initiative of 1998. He is the author of Doomi Golo, a novel entirely in Wolof.
He also writes for the cinema and theatre and contributes to numerous publications, including and Chimurenga.

Novels