In 1947, he travelled to Paris to continue studying mechanics. He attended vocational studies in motor mechanics. At the age of 15, he went to Conakry, the colonial capital, to continue his education. He attended both Koranic and French elementary schools in Kouroussa. His mother was from the village of Tindican, and his immediate childhood surroundings were not predominantly influenced by French culture. His family were Malinke (a Mandé-speaking ethnicity), and he was born into a caste that traditionally worked as blacksmiths and goldsmiths. Laye was born in Kouroussa, a town in what was then the colony of French Guinea. Both novels are among the earliest major works in Francophone African literature. He was the author of The African Child, a novel based loosely on his own childhood, and The Radiance of the King. Camara Laye was an African writer from Guinea.
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