S3E4 La France Noire

Decolonization in Action Podcast

In this episode, Laurence Meyer asks various Afro/Black French people about racism and police brutality in France. 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. Marie-Julie Chalu is a theater actress; curator of the website Afropea (https://afropea.net/) on afropean identities and creativities; and creator and administrator of the Instagram accounts Zouk Vintage (https://www.instagram.com/zouk.vintage/) and Noir Cinema (https://www.instagram.com/noir.cinema/). Mame-Fatou Niang is a photographer, film director, and Associate Professor of French Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. Maliga is a high school teacher of sociology and economics. Olivia Mabounga is a theater actress and playwright. Mwasi is a French Afrofeminist collective (https://www.mwasicollectif.org/). 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. The song Idadé is by the artist C.T. Koité and is dedicated to the Traoré family. Image from left to right : Fatou Dieng, Diané Bah, Eve, Mamadou Camara, Awa Gueye This episode is in the French language