Season 3, Episode 4: La France Noire
Season 3, Episode 4: La France Noire
In this episode, guest host Laurence Meyer asks Afro/Black French people about racism and police brutality in France, in discussion with Marie-Julie Chalu, Mame-Fatou Niang, Maliga, Olivia Mabounga, Assa Traoré, and the Mwasi Collectif, a French Afrofeminist collective.
The song “Idadé” featured in this episode is by the artist C.T. Koité and is dedicated to the Traoré family.
Cover image: (from left to right): Fatou Dieng, Diané Bah, Eve, Mamadou Camara, and Awa Gueye.
This episode is in the French language.
Biographies
Laurence Meyer
Laurence Meyer is a jurist in public law and a PhD student in constitutional comparative law. She works on the impact of race on the French legal system.
Laurence Meyer
Marie-Julie Chalu
Marie-Julie Chalu is a theater actress; curator of the website Afropea on Afropean identities and creativities; and creator and administrator of the Instagram accounts Zouk Vintage and Noir Cinema.
Mame-Fatou Niang
Mame-Fatou Niang is a photographer, film director, and Associate Professor of French Studies at Carnegie Mellon University.
Maliga
Maliga is a high school teacher of sociology and economics.
Olivia Mabounga
Olivia Mabounga is a theater actress and playwright.
Assa Traoré
Assa Traoré is a social worker and an activist part of the “Justice et vérité pour Adama Traoré” collective mobilizing against police violence and the sister of Adama Traoré, who died in the hands of the French gendarmerie.
Show Credits
Guest host
Laurence Meyer
Post-production
edna bonhomme
music
The song Idadé featured in this episode is by the artist C.T. Koité and is dedicated to the Traoré family.
All other music is from Freesounds.org (Creative Commons)
Thank you
A special thanks to guest host Laurence Meyer and special thanks also to Marie-Julie Chalu, Mame-Fatou Niang, Maliga, Olivia Mabounga, Assa Traoré, and the Mwasi collective.