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He was the first person of West African origin elected to the French Chamber of Deputies, [12]: 111 and the first to hold a position in the French government. Ngalandou Diouf , elected in 1909 to represent the commune of Rufisque at the advisory General Assembly ( Conseil Général ) of Saint-Louis, then capital of colonial Senegal.
A man from Labé, Guinea, speaking Pular and West African French. African French (French: français africain) is the generic name of the varieties of the French language spoken by an estimated 320 million people in Africa in 2023 or 67% of the French-speaking population of the world [1] [2] [3] spread across 34 countries and territories.
French people of Central African Republic descent (2 C, 2 P) French people of Chadian descent (2 C, 5 P) French people of Comorian descent (1 C, 16 P)
The U.N. body formed to promote respect for and protect people of African descent around the world says in its first report that they continue “to be victims of systemic racial discrimination ...
Jeune Afrique (English: Young Africa) is a French-language pan-African weekly news magazine, founded in 1960 in Tunis and subsequently published in Paris by Jeune Afrique Media Group. It is the most widely read pan-African magazine. [1] It offers coverage of African and international political, economic and cultural news.
Présence Africaine (French for African Presence) is a pan-African quarterly cultural, political, and literary magazine, published in Paris, France, and founded by Alioune Diop in 1947. In 1949, Présence Africaine expanded to include a publishing house and a bookstore on rue des Écoles in the Latin Quarter of Paris.
France was viewed by many African Americans as a welcome change from the widespread racism in the United States. It was then that jazz was introduced to the French, and black culture was born in Paris. African-American musicians, artists and writer (many associated with the Harlem Renaissance) found 1920s Paris ready to embrace them with open arms.
Generic "black feet" emblem used by post-independence pied-noir associations. There are competing theories about the origin of the term pied-noir.According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it refers to "a person of European origin living in Algeria during the period of French rule, especially a French person expatriated after Algeria was granted independence in 1962". [3]