Boubacar Boris Diop, one of Africa's most original and important authors, has written six novels including Murambi, The Book of Bones (IUP). He currently writes and teaches in Senegal.Sara C. Hanaburgh is an independent scholar of African literature and cinema and translator of Angèle Rawiri's Fureurs et cris de femmes.Bhakti Shringarpure is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut (Storrs). She is cofounder and editor in chief of Warscapes magazine, which publishes art and literature about contemporary conflicts.Ayo A. Coly is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and African Studies at Dartmouth College and author of The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures.

This is Diop's way of digging out of a silent history.(Contemporary Francophone Writers and the Burden of Commitment) Clear-sighted and desperate, speaks relentlessly of Africa bruised at the hands of local and foreign politicians, brutal, greedy, merciless. A brave novel that pulls no punches.- International Alliance of Independent Publishers A dark, ferocious novel that you won't put down unscathed, and certainly not any more confident in the goodness in the hearts of humankind.- Maurice Mourier (La Quinzaine Litteraire) Always opinionated, always passionate, and always worth reading.(The Lit Hub)