Camara Laye was an African writer from Guinea who passed away February 4, 1980, in Dakar, Senegal. He wrote his debut novel while in college which is loosely based on his childhood entitled The African Child (L’Enfant Noir). The Radiance of the King (Le Regard Du Roi) is considered to be one of the most important works of Guinea’s colonial period.

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