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Les Raisins du baobab is a collection of poems into four parts - Dakaroises, Terreaux d'Afrique, Sutura, and Un Elan d'Humanism - written by the author between December 2002 and May 2009. In Les Raisins du baobab, Ibrahima Amadou Niang questions the image of Africa in urban and rural areas, and in the mentality of African peoples and elsewhere. Deftly wading through minefields of expectations, beliefs and values, the book encourages readers to take confront the image of the continent and participate in a true African renaissance. Through a spatial-temporal framework embedded in Africa and his...

Africa is going through an alarming health crisis with multiple pathologies, particularly HIV/AIDS which hinders the human and socio-economic development of the continent. The decrepit state of health systems in Africa has been greatly compounded by ill-suited macro-economic programmes, hence exacerbating the flight of human capital. There is also a crisis in the theories, models and the construction of responses to this situation. These have been influenced, since colonial times, by hegemonic concepts and principles dictated from the West which fail to take into account the cultural, social...

How could I have lived and worked in the presence of the brilliant and caring young man called Ibrahima Amadou Niang (we called him Ibou, in great affection) and not know that I was rubbing shoulders with a great young poet? Because we talked about everything except the essential? Now the essential is here in these fierce and moving and often haunting poems speaking of love and travels and sadness and compassion - for people and for pelicans - and sometimes of anger. The love is deep and nuanced, the way with words is scintillating and apt and impressive way beyond what one would expect from...