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Credit Scoring for Good: Enhancing Financial Inclusion with Smartphone-Based Microlending
Globally, two billion people and more than half of the poorest adults do not use formal financial services. Consequently, there is increased emphasis on developing financial technology that can facilitate access to financial products for the unbanked. I
A narrative approach to publishing information systems research: inspiration from the French New Novel tradition
Editorial craft and francophone African literature: the case of Malick Fall
This article considers Senegalese novelist Malick Fallâs 1967 novel La Plaie [The Wound] in the light of material from the archives of Parisian publishers Editions du Seuil. It explores to what extent and with what effect traces of editorial mediation revealed in publishersâ archives can be written into the history of francophone African literature. Fallâs long-neglected text is one of the earliest francophone African novels of post-independence disillusionment. Described by an early critic as the first African âexistentialistâ novel, its fragmented narrative draws on seams of poetic symbolism, burlesque comedy, and philosophical reflection to portray a vagrant protagonist. The complex structure and unstable narrative voice mark a departure from realist modes of African novels in the 1950s. Moreover it troubles any reductive account of a linear transition from realism to modernism. Yet Fallâs work remains much less known than the celebrated stylistic innovation of Ahmadou Kouroumaâs Les Soleils des indĂ©pendances (1968) or Yambo Ouologuemâs Le Devoir de violence (1968). Readersâ reports at Le Seuil, a publisher with clear anti-colonial sympathies, show how editors sought to revise Fallâs manuscript according to normative ideas of language, genre, and literary craft, tentatively pointing to the textâs modernist leanings without fully articulating what such modernity might constitute or imply. While clearly not exclusive to African or postcolonial literature, such stylistic tempering (or tampering) arguably shaped the textâs meditations on trauma, freedom, and alienation. This evidence leads to a revised, multivalent understanding of Fallâs literary innovation