French African prose can be given a beginning with the publication in 1921 of the novel Batouala . . . its sensitive portrayal of African life, with its evocation of the natural environment, could not but make a profound impression upon its African readers and offered a vivid example of what an African novel in French could be.
-Abiola Irele
- ISBN10 0435901354
- ISBN13 9780435901356
- Publish Date 11 June 1973
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 July 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pearson Education Limited
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 154
- Language English