The Independence Ball (3/6)
Audio 48:30
By: Valérie Nivelon
In 1960, 17 African countries acceded to national sovereignty! But how did Africans experience it? How did the great intellectual and political figures of decolonization fight? Has France compromised itself to maintain its colonial grip? In six largely revisited episodes enriched with sometimes unpublished sound and musical archives, Valérie Nivelon tells you about this independence ball every Sunday at 12:10 p.m. Paris time and 10:10 a.m. UT from July 26 to August 30, 2020.
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Episode 3 “ De Gaulle and decolonization, the Brazzaville episode ”
In the footsteps of the colonial past of the capital of Congo, we seek to understand why the Brazzaville conference given by General De Gaulle on January 30, 1944, took place. inscribed in collective memory as the first act of decolonization.
To read : - Free France was African , Éric Jennings, ed. Perrin
- History of the Resistance: 1940-1945 , Olivier Wieviorka, ed. Perrin
- The Free French, the other resistance , Jean-François Muracciole, Tallandier ed.
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