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Abstract Historians must ask themselves what it means to be black in France over the course of history. How does a twenty-year-old in 2016 experience his or her relationship with identity differently or identically to his or her parents and grandparents? …

Abstract This is an overview of Haitian literature, without losing sight of the African traces that survived the Voyage. With, of course, a close-up on Ainsi parla l'oncle , Jean-Price Mars's seminal 1928 essay, the inspiration for the Négritude of …

Abstract Since the 19th century, the task of African thought has been to write about Africa in the world and to give an account of its originality, singularity and even difference. From the outset, African thought has been diasporic. What remains of this …

Abstract Is it really necessary to talk about colonial slavery? Since 2006, May 10 has been the national day of remembrance of the slave trade, slavery and their abolition. Why and how was this decision taken? What is its purpose? How has it been …

Abstract This paper examines the ways in which Afro-descendants living in France represent the African continent. Drawing on multiple sources, they construct varied and sometimes contradictory representations of Africa, which play a role in their social …

Abstract Despite the presence of a large black population in France, black faces are relatively invisible in the audiovisual world. Their presence seems to be confined to certain fields, such as sport or music, where they are sometimes over-represented, …

Abstract The tyranny of statistics puts the African continent in a bad light: it is home to the highest number of "poor" people. Dealing with this shameful ranking is proving difficult for many intellectuals. In their desire to refute any rhetoric that …

Abstract Being a writer and playwright today, in a politically turbulent Africa. What is the role of the artist? Does the writer help him to give an answer on stage? What can theater do for African youth …

Documents and media Download Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux's biography …

Abstract When little Louis-Gustave Binger was born in Strasbourg on October 14, 1856, he already reflected the contradictions running through France at the time: his father was Catholic and from Lorraine, while his mother was Protestant and from Alsace. …

Abstract I'm talking about the 2 caricatures of the African woman in the Western world. These two images limit the African woman to two main identities: She's friendly, ignorant and voiceless - often wife number seven or eleven. She's a good nanny for …

Abstract No one is better placed than African philosophers - for reasons that have to do with their multilingual situation - to experience the fact that we always think in and from a language, i.e., that the idiom in which we express ourselves inclines …