What Is Africa to Me? or Maryse Condé’s Love-Hate Relationship with “Ancestral Lands” Struggling with Budding Independence

Abstract

with the kind support of the same University. The author wishes to thank the two anonymous reviewers whose comments helped to improve upon the quality of this article. 1. In What Is Africa to Me?, Condé contests some of the facts captured in the earlier autobiography, Tales from the Heart.