This Guadeloupean writer became professor of French and Francophone literature at Columbia University in New York City in 1995. Her breakout 1984 novel, named for the historic city of Ségou in Mali, brought the 19th-century Bambara Empire to a global audience. Which writer is it?

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Maryse Condé. Maryse Condé, born in Guadeloupe in 1934, wrote 'Ségou' about the Bambara Empire of Mali and later taught French and Francophone literature at Columbia University in New York City. She won the alternative Nobel Prize in Literature in 2018.