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2020
A date, a decision, an act or a moment of reality that left its mark on Africa. From the Berlin Conference through European colonisation to independence and its struggles, multi-party systems and their abuse, we take a journey through the sometimes less well-known pages of Africa's history.
Episode 15
2 min
Hassiba Boulmerka
Le stade olympique de Montjuic de Barcelone accueille 1 725 athlètes pour les épreuves d'athlétisme des Jeux olympiques d'été de 1992. Un exploit est sur le point d'être accompli. Nous sommes le 8 août, l'Algérienne Hassiba Boulmerka est médaillée d'or olympique.
Episode 14
3 min
La publication de « L'Enfant noir », de Camara Laye
Considérée comme l'un des textes fondateurs de la littérature africaine contemporaine, cette oeuvre largement autobiographique, publiée par la maison d'édition Plon, a reçu le prix Charles Veillon 1954. Nous sommes à Paris, en 1953, « L'Enfant noir », de Camara Laye, est publié.
Episode 13
2 min
Le décès de Amadou Hampâté Bâ
« En Afrique, quand un vieillard meurt, c'est une bibliothèque qui brûle. » Cette phrase prononcée lors d'une assemblée à l'Unesco a rendu célèbre son auteur. Et elle n'a jamais sonné aussi vrai que ce 15 mai 1991 à Abidjan, jour du décès de Amadou Hampâté Bâ.
Episode 12
2 min
Léopold Sédar Senghor, membre de l'Académie française
Après avoir notamment été député français, secrétaire d'État, ministre, premier Africain agrégé de grammaire puis premier président du Sénégal, il est aussi le premier Africain à siéger à l'Académie française. Nous sommes le 2 juin 1983. Léopold Sédar Senghor devient immortel.
Episode 11
3 min
L'investiture de Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Au cours d'une cérémonie sous haute sécurité à laquelle assistent des milliers de civils et militaires ainsi que de nombreux dirigeants africains et diplomates étrangers, le Liberia écrit une nouvelle page de son histoire. La cheffe de l'État prête serment devant le président de la Cour suprême, Henry Reed Cooper. Nous sommes à Monrovia, le 16 janvier 2006. C'est l'investiture de Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, première Africaine présidente de la République.
A date, a decision, an act or a moment of reality that left its mark on Africa. From the Berlin Conference through European colonisation to independence and its struggles, multi-party systems and their abuse, we take a journey through the sometimes less well-known pages of Africa's history.
2024. Act Up-Paris is 35 years old. Throughout its history, the militant association fighting against AIDS has invented a radical way of campaigning, bringing HIV-positive people and the gay community out of invisibility, forcing public authorities to react... A story of a journey that is both terrible and magnificent.
Kobeliaki, halfway between Kiev and the Donbass. Iryna has no news from her son, captured by the Russians in Mariupol. What happened to Olexandr Sergeyvich? Many mothers and wives are asking the same concerned question about their family members. An offbeat portrait of a suffering country.
From Detroit to Manchester and on to Boston, innumerable American towns, streets and rivers carry francophone names. Why? The rapper Biz and globe-trotter Jean-Michel Dufaux set off in the footsteps of those who travelled and dreamed of America in times gone by. The story of a history forgotten or erased.
December 1944. They thought that the war was over because Belgium had been freed three months earlier. But the families in Ardennes saw the Germans return by surprise. We look back at a terrible battle, through accounts, sequences from the archives and interviews with historians.
Wherever man is found, members of the crow family are nearby, watching. Since time immemorial, they have followed the hunters, farmers, soldiers and persecutors, scratching the soil in gardens, ploughed fields, battlefields... Crows and their cousins study us, passing on the knowledge gleaned to their offspring. Chronicle of an inquisition.
6 May 1994, Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais. The meeting between Queen Elizabeth II and President François Mitterrand puts the final touch to the most important civil engineering project of the 20th century. We look back at an international technological exploit and an exceptional adventure for the workers involved.
Struck by a fire on 15 April 2019, Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris will reopen on 7 December 2024. For five years, the religious building has been the centre stage of an unparalleled human and technical adventure. We dive into the heart of this enormous restoration site, alongside exceptionally skilled tradesmen.
The Indian Taïno people, who are almost extinct, leave a culture full of legends, sculptures and beliefs, but also a way of living, in harmony with nature, and values of sharing and solidarity. So many aspirations that appeal to certain contemporary young people. Story of a rediscovery.
