The march of the world

Zinder, at the dawn of the colonial occupation

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The Bellama posing as the new ruler.

© Personal collection Camille Lefebvre

By: Valerie Nivelon

1 min

For more than 20 years, Camille Lefebvre has been traveling 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, the traces before colonization.

Camille Lefebvre is looking 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 saw and what they experienced at the very beginning of the 20th century... that is to say this particular moment when everything changed, this moment when the French arrived to occupy them.

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, by Camille Lefebvre, published by Fayard.

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Many thanks to the great Nigerien actor Nourou Ouallam for his exceptional participation.

Countries at Dusk by Camille Lefebvre.

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