Throughout her four-decade literary career, the Guadeloupean writer has explored a global vision of the Black diaspora, and placed Caribbean life at the center. Maryse Condé has called writing a ...

Maryse Condé is considered the Guadeloupean “grand storyteller." Her work examined histories of empire, diaspora and ...

(FILES) In this file photo (L-R) Jacob Desvarieux of the band Kassav' performs at the "Setting The Stage - 2015 And Beyond" global all-star summer concert at the United Nations on June 6, 2014 in New ...

Exploration led us here, We travel sonically to France by the way of Guadeloupe and met Arnaud Dolmen who is a drummer, composer, producer and one of the most acclaimed artists on the jazz scene. His ...

The death of a newcomer to a Guadeloupean community sparks a meandering, fascinating novel about the locals’ interconnected lives When the committee for the Nobel prize in literature postponed its ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The first Soné Ka-La album found Guadeloupe-raised saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart exploring the sonics and ...

On October 21, Convention Pour Une Guadeloupe Nouvelle commemorated a historical moment (October 21, 1801) it identifies as the birth of the Guadeloupean nation and added: “Nation without state, ...

Maryse Condé, the Guadeloupean author of more than 20 novels, activist, and academic died on April 2. She was 90. Condé – in both fiction and essays – wrote of colonialism, sexuality, the black ...

Valérie Langlois has received financial support from the Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR), the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and the Canada Research Chairs Marc Lebordais ...