Présence ou Absence africaine

Authors

Françoise Naudillon, Université Concordia (Montréal)

Abstract

Among the institutions created in the post-war years, Présence Africaine (1947) and Le Monde diplomatique (1954) share in many ways the same vision of the contours of the world to come, between decolonization and Christianity. At the heart of debates from the 1950s to the 1980s, the two publications animate at the same time as they organize the intellectual life of four decades in France and in the former colonies. Between ideological fraternities, Third World or Pan-Africanism, anti-imperialism or anti-colonialism, the journalists of Le Monde and the editors of Présence Africaine have pursued a dialogue made up of collaborations, connivance or confrontations which will gradually end when their respective founders, Alioune Diop (1980) and Hubert Beuve-Méry (1989), are deceased.

Recommended Citation

Naudillon, Françoise (2021) "Présence ou Absence africaine," Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 96: No. 1, Article 9.
Available at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol96/iss1/9