Zinder, at the dawn of colonial occupation
Audio 48:30
The Bellama staging itself as the new sovereign.
© Personal collection Camille Lefebvre
By: Valérie Nivelon
49 mins
For more than 20 years, Camille Lefebvre has traveled in the memories of the women and men of Niger.
Historian of Africa, she seeks the traces left by the countries of the Sahara and the Sahel, traces of before colonization.
Camille Lefebvre searches for archives, and she finds them.
Because many of them have written, in Arabic, in French, because many of them have told in African languages what they have seen and what they have experienced at the very beginning of the 20th century… c ' that is to say, this particular moment when everything changed, this moment when the French arrived to occupy them.
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To read:
From countries to twilight
, by Camille Lefebvre, published by Fayard.
To discover
:
Zinder 1900, the exhibition.
Our thanks to the great Nigerian actor Nourou Ouallam for his exceptional participation.
“Countries at dusk”, by Camille Lefebvre.
© Editions Fayard
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