Maryse Conde, daring storyteller who explored black identity, dead at 90

Paris (AFP) — French writer Maryse Conde, died on Tuesday at the age of 90. She became one of the greatest chroniclers of the struggles and triumphs of the descendants of Africans taken as slaves to the Caribbean. But the writer born on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe did not pen her first book until she was nearly 40, and it triggered a controversy that saw authorities in several countries...

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