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Biography

I report on African, Belgian and Dutch matters from Brussels and Paris, and travel extensively for RFI, Le Monde diplomatique, Politique internationale and La chronique d'Amnesty international. I currently hold the blog "Mots d'Afrique" for Le Monde diplomatique.  

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As a Research Fellow for the Moroccan think tank Policy Center for the New South, I help on editing content and am in charge of the international press relations of the Atlantic Dialogues yearly conference (since 2017) in Marrakech. 

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The blog Ideas for Development (ID4D) of the Agence française de développement (AFD), has posted many interviews with experts and academics I met around international conferences (2015-2018). 

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I wrote for Slate Afrique (2011-2012) from its successful beginning. I covered extensively the "DSK affair" from Paris and New York after a scoop on Nafissatou Diallo, victim of Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Several cover stories on African politics were also published for Afrique Magazine (2011-2018) and I held the blog "Rues d'Afrique" for Rue89 (2013-2016).

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As an Africa reporter for Libération in Paris (2009-2011), I was sent to Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Ivory Coast and South Africa. I contributed to special issues on South Africa before the 2010 Soccer World Cup and after Mandela's death in 2013. With my fellow-journalist Thomas Hofnung, we launched the blog "Posts Afrique".  

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In Amsterdam, Netherlands, I corresponded for Libération, La Tribune and La Tribune de Genève, including "Accents d'Europe", a daily RFI radio broadcast (2005-2009), la Radio suisse romande and the monthly Alternatives Internationales. During an interim at the Foreign desk of Libération in 2007, I published from Sofia the first print press interview of Kristiana Valcheva, one of the nurses held prisoners in Libya, upon their release.

 

I corresponded from Johannesburg, South Africa (1998-2003), for Libération, La Tribune, La Tribune de Genève, L'Autre Afrique and the website of Radio France Internationale (RFI). I covered culture for Africultures, the ad industry for CBNews and economy for La Tribune, L'Expansion, La Lettre Afrique Expansion and Marchés Tropicaux et Méditerranéens

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As a reporter for the Panafrican weekly L'Autre Afrique (1997-99), I covered the downfall of Mobutu in May 1997 in Kinshasa and worked on special issues on the diaspora in New York and London. 

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BOOKS

• Impactful Emerging Leaders from the Wider Atlantic (Policy Center for the New South, Rabat, 2022). 

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• Sénégal, la pirogue des marchands (Nevicata, Bruxelles, Collection L'âme des peuples), Juin 2020

 

•Afrique du Sud (Chêne, C'est le rêve, Paris 2010)

 

• Winnie Mandela, l'âme noire de l'Afrique du Sud, (Calmann-Levy, Paris 2007, with Stephen Smith) 

 

• Johannesburg : la fin de l'apartheid, et après ? (Autrement, Coll. Villes en mouvement, pictures by Andrew Tshabangu, Paris 2008)

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• Une nouvelle Afrique du Sud ?

A new South Africa ?

Revue Africultures, Septembre 2001 

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Book cover of Winnie Mandela's biography
Cover of coffee-table book on South Africa
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