Canal-U

Directeur de recherche à l’Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) et directeur d’études à l’Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). Il a travaillé principalement en Afrique de l’Ouest, sur des questions de développement, de santé, sur les problèmes ethniques, sur les relations entre politique et religion, ainsi que sur les relations franco-africaines.

Il est l’auteur de nombreux ouvrages parmi lesquels : La société bété. Histoire d’une “ethnie” de Côte d’Ivoire, Karthala, 1985, La cause des prophètes. Politique et religion en Afrique contemporaine, Le Seuil, 1995, Frères et Sujets. La France et l’Afrique en perspective, Flammarion, 2003, L’Afrique, miroir du contemporain, Quæ, 2008, L’Afrique à Dieu et à Diable. Etats, ethnies et religions, Ellipses, 2008.

Her dissertation, “The Politics of Socialist Athletics in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1966,” traces the political significance of sport to the Chinese socialist state between 1949 and 1966 and its importance in shaping transnational networks.

She has also published articles in the Journal of Sport History and Comparativ on Chinese elite international sports activities in the early 1960s, including the first Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO), a large-scale sports games held in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1963 that resembled the Olympics.

Associate Professor of Translation and Francophone Studies, specialising in literary translation in Francophone Africa. She is currently leading the project ‘Building Images: Exploring 21st century Sino-African dynamics through cultural exchange and translation’. This project explores the dominant images of China that are being constructed for Africa, and vice versa. It asks how these images are channelled and shaped, and examines translation selection and exchange patterns in an effort to better understand Sino-African power dynamics.

Workin on the ‘Building Images’ project. She completed her PhD in in French and Francophone Studies in 2014, and her thesis explored notions of trauma, voice and witness in the testimonial literature of Rwandan women genocide survivors.  More information : http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ctccs/research/building-images.aspx  

Her research focuses on Kenyan state-society negotiations in response to Chinese activities in the Trade, Healthcare and Education sectors, with emphasis on Kenyan agency. She is also Associate PhD with ANR EsCa where she is conducting research on Chinese soft power in Africa and Associate with the Insitute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi.

Docteur de sciences politiques de l’Université de Berckeley, a enseigné à Sussex University et au Goldmiths College. Présidente du commité pour la mémoire et l’esclavage de 2009 à 2012, elle est actuellement la titulaire de la Chaire Global South(s) au Collège d’études mondiales (Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris).