Copyist intellectuals

Interview with Gaston Zossou Beninese Minister of Culture

The former English teacher Gaston Zossou has just published an essay entitled Au nom de l'Afrique* (In Africa's Name), a fierce indictment of an Africa ridden with corruption, a sterile intelligentsia, and mimesis. The arguments he puts in this interview with Africultures, contrast starkly with many others presented on the site.