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Melissa on the road
Journalist at RFI (ex-DW, BBC, CBC, F24...), writer (on art, music, culture...), I work in radio, podcasting, online, on films. As a writer, I also contributed to the New Arab, Art UK, Byline Times, the i Paper... Born in Paris, I was based in Prague, Miami, London, Nairobi (covering East Africa), Bangui, and in Bristol, UK. I also reported from Italy, Germany, Haiti, Tunisia, Liberia, Senegal, India, Mexico, Iraq, South Africa... This blog is to share my work, news and cultural discoveries.
05/04/2025
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A few words on Frantz Fanon's centenary. And a conversation on music production
This month, some anti-colonial inspirations from the Caribbean to Cameroon.
A few words on Frantz Fanon's centenary. And a conversation on music production
This month, some anti-colonial inspirations from the Caribbean to Cameroon.
29/03/2025
Manifestation en soutien aux mineurs isolés sans logement
Ce samedi 29 mars :
Des centaines de personnes ont manifesté dans toute la France samedi 29 mars 2025, en soutien aux mineurs isolés sans logement, notamment après les violences policières à la Gaîté Lyrique... Ici, à Paris.
26/03/2025
Visiting the 'Black Paris' exhibition at Pompidou with Johny Pitts
In English
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Read also my article:
'Paris Noir' exhibition showcases work made in French capital by black artists
The 'Paris Noir' exhibition at the Pompidou Centre brings together works by African, American, Caribbean and Afro-descendant artists who lived and worked in Paris between the 1950s and the end of the 1990s.
Exposition 'Paris Noir' au Centre Pompidou - Petite vidéo d'introduction
En français
(English to come...)
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Read also my article:
'Paris Noir' exhibition showcases work made in French capital by black artists
The 'Paris Noir' exhibition at the Pompidou Centre brings together works by African, American, Caribbean and Afro-descendant artists who lived and worked in Paris between the 1950s and the end of the 1990s.
24/03/2025
“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad time..."
“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasise in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvellous victory.”
― Howard Zinn