“Most common diseases are disruption of the hormonal system, cancer, infertility, birth malformations, abortion and psychological disorder”
Encyclopaedia Africana N
June 24, 2021
THE BARBARISM & SAVAGERY OF FRENCH COLONISERS IN NIGER
How many times have people of African descent and origin been described by white supremacists as barbaric, savages, animals, sub-human – the list is endless. Whose behaviour and history shows irrefutable evidence of these things that they accuse us of? The answer is, all of the former invading and colonising nations. How The Voulet-Chanoine Mission …
Encyclopaedia Africana N
June 23, 2021
THE CONTINUING LEGACY OF FRENCH IMPERIALISM IN NIGER: GENERATIONAL VAMPIRES & URANIUM
“Interestingly, in France, one out of every three light bulbs is lit thanks to Nigerian uranium mining. But in Niger, nearly 90 percent of the population has no access to electricity.
Encyclopaedia Africana J
March 13, 2021
JEAN-JACQUES DESSALINES
Fearing a French resurgence and the reinstatement of slavery that would accompany it, he ordered the massacre of approximately 5,000 of the island’s white men, women, and children declaring “I have saved my country.
Encyclopaedia Africana R
February 27, 2021
RUBEN UM NYOBÈ
“La politique touche à tout et tout touche à la politique. Dire que l’on ne fait pas de politique, c’est avouer que l’on a pas le désir de vivre.”
“Politics touches everything and everything touches politics. To say that you don’t play politics is to admit that you don’t want to live. ”
A Encyclopaedia Africana
February 14, 2021
AIME CESAIRE
In Paris, Césaire met Senegalese Léopold Sédar Senghor and French Guiana’s Léon Damas. Together they started the journal L’Etudiant Noir (The Black Student) in 1934 to bring together students from Africa and the West Indies. The journal explored the expression of a Pan-African worldview under colonization.
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February 13, 2021
Will American Ideas Tear France Apart? Some of Its Leaders Think So
The French state does not compile racial statistics, which is illegal, describing it as part of its commitment to universalism and treating all citizens equally under the law. To many scholars on race, however, the reluctance is part of a long history of denying racism in France and the country’s slave-trading and colonial past.
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November 29, 2020
France: Protesters clash with police over new security law
“It happens a lot if I’m not polite enough, if I don’t know how to manage the group of police officers that talk to me. I could get beat down and I could basically die”
Encyclopaedia Africana Q
October 1, 2020
QUAI BRANLY MUSEUM
Bénédicte Savoy of France and Felwine Sarr of Senegal, recommend that objects that were removed and sent to mainland France without the consent of their countries of origin be permanently returned — if the country of origin asks for them.
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October 1, 2020
Activists are being tried in Paris over the attempted theft of an African artwork from the Quai Branly Museum
How can we possibly steal, that which belongs to us?