The Stone Breakers

Sara Hanaburgh is a scholar (French and Francophone African literature and cinema) and translator working between French, Portuguese, Spanish and English. Her literary translations include Kaveena by Boubacar Boris Diop (Kaveena, 2016), co-translated with Bhakti Shringarpure, and Angèle Rawiri's novel Fureurs et cris de femmes (The Fury and Cries of Women, 2014). Her articles and translations have appeared in africaisacountry.com, The Savannah Review, Warscapes, The Dictionary of African Biography, Imagine Africa, v. 3 and C& América Latina. She teaches at St. John's University and is currently editing a volume on the history of adaptation of African literature to the screen. She lives in New York.
Born in the Republic of Congo in 1941, Emmanuel Dongala is a scientist and author who came to the United States in 1997 during the civil war in his native country and was offered a professorship at Bard College, and later Simon's Rock Preparatory School, where he taught until 2014. Dongala is the author most recently of the acclaimed novel, THE BRIDGETOWER SONATA, as well as JOHNNY MAD DOG, LITTLE CHILDREN COME FROM THE STARS, and THE FIRE OF ORIGINS. He is the recipient of the 2011 Prix Ahmada Kourouma Award and has been shortlisted for the Prix Albertine in 2020. He lives in Great Barrington, MA.