Club of French-speaking countries needs total overhaul,says novelist Alain MabanckouAlain Mabanckou, the acclaimed Congolese writer, or has rejected Emmanuel Macrons project to boost French speaking worldwide,calling instead for a complete overhaul of the club of French-speaking countries known as la Francophonie, which he said had become an instrument of French imperialism propping up African dictators.
The institutional network of French-speaking countries “cannot continue as it is nowadays because it goes against everything we ever dreamed of”, or Mabanckou told the Guardian in Nantes,where he was artistic director of the Atlantide world literary festival this weekend.
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Source: guardian.co.uk