Bitter News from “Eternally Developing” Places, by Jean-Pierre Listre François-Xavier Akono, a Cameroonian Jesuit priest, gives us a series of bittersweet chronicles of trying realities, around little people whose way out one day is not very clear. First of all his style: he writes in small incisive sentences, sometimes “poetic” but precise, never practicing melodramatic...
Professor Kako Nubukpo is an economist (with a sensitive historian’s tropism) and a renowned academic. He was Minister in charge of Prospective and Evaluation of Public Policies in Togo (2013-2015). Professor Kako Nubukpo’s book is a useful reference point for outstanding issues, without claiming to provide, in all the fields explored, absolute answers to the...
Jean Bernard Bruneteaux is a human resources (HR) expert. He held the HR function for 30 years, including 22 years as a director. One of the founders and member of the Institut Afrique Monde (IAM), he defends African culture and promotes a self-managed Africa for itself. By teaching and writing a book on human resources...
Jean-Pierre Bat: paleographer archivist, was responsible for the “Foccart collection” at the National Archives. This collection consists of Jacques Foccart’s personal archives and his service at the Elysée, the General Secretariat for African and Malagasy Affairs. The richness of this archival, heritage and historical ensemble makes it possible to clarify, and even to understand, many...
Presentation of Stephen SMITH’s book, La rée vers l’Europe – La jeune Afrique en route pour le Vieux Continent, published by Editions Grasset, 2018, 270 pages This 17th book by Stephen Smith is no longer that of the journalist he was once in France for Libération and Le Monde, for which he wrote columns on...