Condé was a highly acclaimed vocalist in the French-speaking community, known for her compositions Segu (1984) and I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem (1986).
She was the recipient of an honor established in lieu of the scandal-plagued Nobel Prize in Literature in 2018.
Condé was the first and only recipient of the New Academy Prize in Literature, and the judges commended her for that fact, praising her clear and powerful depiction of the chaos and devastation caused by colonialism.
Ever since reading Emily Bront’s Wuthering Heights, she has always aspired to be a writer.
