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Françoise Ega

Françoise Ega (1920–1976) was an Afro-Martinican writer and labor activist who lived and worked in France and several African countries. She is the author of two novels, Le temps des Madras (1966) and the posthumously published L’alizé ne soufflait plus (2000).

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