Camara LayeCamara Laye was born in 1928 in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea. He was still in his twenties and studying engineering in France when he wrote his award-winning memoir, The Dark Child. His next book, The Radiance of the King>, was described as one of the greatest of the African novels of the colonial period (Kwame Anthony Appiah). He died in Senegal in 1980. Read More Read Less