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Like last year's winner, Doris Lessing, Le Clézio has strong ties to Africa - he was born in Nice in 1940, but his family history on both sides leads back to Mauritius, an island about 500 miles east of Madagascar that has been best known in the West, at least until now, as the home of the famously extinct dodo. The son of a doctor, Le Clézio grew up in France and Nigeria speaking French and English. He began writing at the age of 8 - one of his childhood efforts, composed on a long voyage...
...never stopped writing - the Nobel citation lists 43 works in French - and rarely stopped traveling: in addition to France and Africa, he has spent years living in Mexico and Central America. Now 68, he and his wife, who is Moroccan, divide their time among Mauritius, Nice and Albuquerque, N.M. He is modern literature's consummate expatriate: the constant in his work is a sense of displacement and alienation, of humanity from the natural world, of adulthood from the idealized homeland of childhood and of Western civilization from its own emotional and spiritual vitality. "We no longer have the presumptuousness...
What can a college student in Africa do to help your cause? Zelalem Dawit ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA...
...cancer] epidemic in Africa is totally different from what we face in the developed world. In Africa, we have to deal with simpler solutions. You don't have the tobacco burden, but you have people obviously not getting any health care, not getting any diagnoses, not getting any medicine. That has to be addressed...
...only I could feed him a potion and make him young again.' MONICA XANGATHI, Johannesburg resident, reminiscing about former leader Nelson Mandela as poverty and political strife continue to worsen in South Africa...