Here he leaves the villages and imaginary worlds of his African homeland behind him and adopts a truly global perspective. The combined African-European perspective that Waberi has experienced and nurtured also determines the theme of his novel Aux Etat-Unis d'Afrique. He has since become a very well respected voice of African Literature in France, and has worked as a literary critic and consultant to a publishing company. In 1985 Waberi went to study in France where he remained and established himself as an English teacher in the French city of Caen. In his essay, Moisson de cranes (Harvest of the Skulls, 1999) Waberi presents a despairing report on the genocide in Rwanda. Most of his novels, stories and poetry – which often won prizes and were critically acclaimed – are seen as making an important contribution to establishing Djibouti on the literary and intellectual world map. Short stories from both works – Le Pays sans ombre and Cahier nomade – were also published in German in 1998 under the title Die Legende von der Nomadensonne. In Berlin I discovered the intellectual climate of a Europe that has been lost forever.
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