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====Subject: [[:Category:Political/Economic/Social Opinion|Political/Economic/Social Opinion]] [[:Category:Racial/Ethnic|Racial/Ethnic]]==== | ====Subject: [[:Category:Political/Economic/Social Opinion|Political/Economic/Social Opinion]] [[:Category:Racial/Ethnic|Racial/Ethnic]]==== | ||
====Medium: [[:Category:Literature|Literature | ====Medium: [[:Category:Literature|Literature]]==== | ||
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'''Artist:''' Jean-Paul Alata (1924 - 1978) | '''Artist:''' Jean-Paul Alata (1924 - 1978) | ||
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'''Location:''' France | '''Location:''' France | ||
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'''Description of Artwork:''' Alata's book, ''Prison d'Afrique'', describes the inhumane conditions that prisoners in Guinea | '''Description of Artwork:''' Alata's book, ''Prison d'Afrique'', describes the inhumane conditions that prisoners in Guinea suffered. <P> | ||
'''The Incident:''' Alata was once an advisor to Guinean President, Sekou Toure. In 1970 he was arrested for allegedly plotting against the state. Without charge or trial, he went to prison for five years, and witnessed conditions that he compared to Nazi brutality. He documented his experience in his book after he returned to France in 1975. The French government siezed his book, claiming that it violated the "de provenance etrangere" clause of French press law, which allows the government to ban work by foreign authors. However, Alata wrote the book in French, it was written while he lived in France and Alata held a French passport. The government also suggested that the publication of the book could disrupt French-Guinean relations. <P> | '''The Incident:''' Alata was once an advisor to Guinean President, Sekou Toure. In 1970 he was arrested for allegedly plotting against the state. Without charge or trial, he went to prison for five years, and witnessed conditions that he compared to Nazi brutality. He documented his experience in his book after he returned to France in 1975. The French government siezed his book, claiming that it violated the "de provenance etrangere" clause of French press law, which allows the government to ban work by foreign authors. However, Alata wrote the book in French, it was written while he lived in France and Alata held a French passport. The government also suggested that the publication of the book could disrupt French-Guinean relations. <P> | ||