From the early days of the colonial conquests, in the mid 19th Century, an imaginary was created around the virgin lands of the black continent. This imaginary had to maintain…

Jacques Chevrier’s work offers an overview of ethnology in reverse, showing how Africans also have clichés about white people.

The French today continue to question whether or not it is possible to live together. Marked by a cultural blending that results from colonial History, France remains wary of intermixing,…

The Gabonese novelist Ludovic Emane Obiang first made a name for himself when he published L’enfant des masques in 1999 (Editions N’Dzé/L’Harmattan). He is also a musicology lecturer at the…

Very few African artists depict the colonial occupation. Stephen Kappata (Zambia) recalls a childhood marked both by humiliation and fascination. An exploration of memory.

It is important to analyse how the Other was viewed in the colonial era if we are to understand the prejudices still at work today. Human zoos offer one very…

« And the show goes on »: Philippe David insists on continuity in the representation of exoticism throughout history and on the intercultural encounters offered by « native villages ». He speaks out against…

According to Philippe David, « the native villages made a positive contribution to the slow and clumsy mutual understanding of peripheral peoples »*. In his book, Villages noirs et visiteurs africains et…

« Yes Lord, forgive France for speaking the right path and taking side alleys ». Léopold Sédar Senghor, Hosties noires (1948)At a time when people are wondering quite when and where the…