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🚨SPECIAL EPISODE🚨

In this episode Seun Matiluko (@seunspeakss) tells us about Black women organisers in France and in the French circum-Caribbean in the 20th century.

The audio clip heard in the introduction is from an interview with Aimé Césaire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6tBrVDNW1s 

Further resources:

Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016 , eds., Felix Gérmain and Silyane Larcher 

Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

Édouard Glissant, Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays

Beckett in Black and Red: The Translations for Nancy Cunard's Negro

LSE Doctoral Thesis by Dr Grace Carrington: http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3977/1/Carrington__non-sovereign-states-era-of-decolonisation.pdf

Lecture by Tracy Sharpley-Whiting lecture on Americans in France- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCuUhl1F7oo

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/2018/04/19/fifty-years-after-the-controversial-may-67-trial-france-continues-to-criminalise-activists-in-guadeloupe/

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/guiana-protests-colonization-france-racism

https://www.humanite.fr/node/495531 - meeting between Angela Davis and Gerty Archimède

https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/eboue-madame-eugenie-tell-1891-1972/

https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/vialle-jeanne-jane-1906-1953/

https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/negritude-movement/

https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/paulette-nardal-1896-1985/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/may/02/france-colonial-exhibition-human-zoo

Music:

Kassav', Zouk-la Sé Sel Médikaman Nou Ni