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SENEGAL – Elaz Ndongo THIOYE brings her humanity to the world through writing

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Elaz Ndongo THIOYE is a Senegalese poet currently living in France. He is a PhD student in Semiotics and his research focuses on issues related to the restitution of African cultural heritage. After his first book «Doux cacophonies», published in June 2019 at the editions Le lys Bleu in Paris, he signed, in November 2021, at the editions L’Harmattan Senegal, his second collection of poems entitled «Cantiques crépusculaires». The Ze-Africanews team met him at the Authors’ Fair during UNESCO Week from 23 to 25 May 2022.

The Senegalese author has just been named Best Poetry Laureate in the framework of the National Book Award organized by the Cénacle des Jeunes Écrivains du Sénégal ( CJES) June 11, 2022, during the ceremony of the Great Night of Senegalese Literature at the Pullman Hotel in Dakar.

Beyond the question dealing with the «double postulation» in the Human, a theme present in the two respective collections, «Crepuscular Canticles» Elaz Ndongo THIOYE is part of a logic of going beyond the first, going beyond a «certain tipping point» towards a quest for Supreme Salvation in a world where darkness never ceases to rub shoulders with the light part of humanity. The poet, in his various themes, invites the reader to meditation and prayer, his poetry is a call to love and peace, a profound confession on his part of humanity. In short, for the author, to write is to bring this share of humanity to the world.

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