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Une grande Dame est partie …Mireille Pame-Balin

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Paris 1999, je viens de lire Diop, Rodney, Cesaire, Mongo Beti, Gandhi, Dubois…Mais aussi Maryse Condé, Jamaica Kincaid et bien d'autres.

Je suis dans l'effervescence juvénile de ceux qui découvrent avec stupéfaction cette histoire coloniale francophone qu'on nous cache en Afrique comme en Europe d'ailleurs et…Une conférence a lieu pour parler de ce projet chiracquien sur le Musée “des arts premiers” (devenu Musée du Quai Branly suite aux nombreuses manifestations). Ne comprenant pas le sujet de la mésentente entre les militants afros et l'ancien président français, je décide de m'y rendre.

Cet échange a lieu au cinéma Images d'Ailleurs (qui n’existe plus hélàs), non loin de la Sorbonne Nouvelle au métro Censier-Daubenton.

Je fais alors connaissance avec cette éloquente journaliste/enseignante/comédienne/auteure/activiste madame Mireille Pame-Balin.

Cette femme de culture est une oratrice hors pair, toujours avec un élégant chapeau tissé dans de jolies étoffes, un noir à lévre et un verbe chirurgicalement précis. Dame Pame-Balin partagera l'histoire de son enfance en Centrafrique (qu’elle quittera en 1967 pour ne plus jamais y retourner), le traitement réservé aux “indigènes” sur leurs propres terres, le mépris du colon, l’injustice du code de l’indigénat (ancêtre de l’actuel Code de l’Immigration…). 

Elle, la Martiniquaise qui a grandit dans une Afrique récemment “libérée”…Elle qui passa sa vie à sillonner notre continent-mère avec son époux feu Maître Balin!

Ce matin, il a fallu lui dire au Revoir. Celle qui a pris la décision de rejoindre “Abulikan” pour son ultimate voyage, elle qui a contribué à mon instruction politique…

C'était la première fois que je rencontrais une activiste francophone afrodescendante et babyboomeuse.

Toutes mes pensées pour Shaka votre fils et mon ami de longue date

Veuillez SVP Chère Dame,  Rejoindre en Puissance nos Ancêtres !

amazighbuffyofrivia:

The way all people in warm and/or dry climates come up with compluvium/impluvium architecture

Senegalese

Imperial Roman

Gotta protect your roof, catch rainwater and keep the house cool I guess.

Him happy

bird boi does the cronch

Poison Fashion Designs by Why Ess Emm Long Pencil Skirts for $55/D1,500.

Poison Fashion Designs by Why Ess Emm

Long Pencil Skirts for $55/D1,500.


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New Poison Fashion Design items: Foutatoro Waramba available in whatever size needed. Exhibiting uni

New Poison Fashion Design items: Foutatoro Waramba available in whatever size needed. Exhibiting unique Fulani indigo tie & dye technique and sewn into a waramba perfect for all occasions. Dress it up, dress it down, by itself or with leggings. This tunic also comes with a customized handmade belt for an added price. Starting price for the Foutatoro Waramba is $45.

Get poisoned.


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Ibrahim - Maïmouna Guerresi, 2008

Ibrahim- Maïmouna Guerresi, 2008


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Omar Victor Diop, b. 1980
Liberty: Universal Chronology of Black Protest
Thiaroye, 1944
Trayvon Martin, 2012
Alin Sitoe Diatta, 1944
Sonacotra, 1974
Dutty Boukman, 1791
The Free Breakfast Programme, 1945
The Freeman Field Mutiny, 1945
Nanny and Quao, 1720
The Soweto Uprising, 1976
Selma, 1965
Senegal (2016)
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The National Geographicsays:

IN DEPICTIONS BY Senegalese artist Omar Victor Diop, the black struggle for freedom is as global as the history of protest yet as personal as each protester’s story.

It’s so personal, in fact, that Diop himself plays every male role in the photo series “Liberty,” vignettes he created based on visual and written sources in Africa and the African diaspora. The scenes, set apart by time, geography, and scope, present a vibrant, visual chronology of these consequential events…

Diop composed scenes using multiple images of himself—but “the picture would be far from complete if it didn’t feature female characters,” he says. “Black women played a role as important as their male counterparts’ in the struggle.” His friend Khadija Boye poses as all the women in the series.

From his vantage in Senegal, Diop designed his latest project to draw a parallel “between the chronology of protest movements on the continent and that of similar movements in the diaspora happening at similar time periods.” He did so, he has said, in hopes of “trying to have a more universal reading of the history of black protest, in order to build bridges for a better understanding of the question.”


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Seen on film by Marjorie Lambé in:

1-3. Bubaque, Guinea-Bissau

4-5. Grand-Bassam Côte d’Ivoire

6. Dakar, Senegal

Seen on film by Marjorie Lambé in:

1-3. Bubaque, Guinea-Bissau

4-5. Grand-Bassam Côte d’Ivoire

6. Dakar, Senegal

Seen in Dakar, Senegal by @malinfezehai

Seen in Casamance, Senegal by Quentin Mska

Senegal at the 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony in Rio De Janeiro.Senegal at the 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony in Rio De Janeiro.

Senegal at the 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony in Rio De Janeiro.


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