Bola A. Akinterinwa Francophone Africa’s scramble for self-reliant independence and sovereignty is a big surprise to France as a people, in general, and as a government, in particular. For the French, it is ‘incroyable mais vrai’, that is, ‘unbelievable but true.’ The French cannot easily believe that their former colonized people can declare them personae non grata in their countries. European scramble for Africa, which culminated into the 1884 and 1885 Berlin Conferences and agreements, is
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STOCKHOLM/PARIS - French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for "the courage and clinical acuity" in her largely autobiographical books examining personal memory and social inequality. In explaining its choice, the Swedish Academy said Ernaux, 82, "consistently and from different angles examines a life marked by strong disparities regarding gender, language and class". Ernaux,.
Relatives of murdered Auschwitz victim Johanna Margarethe Stern-Lippmann will regain 'View of Murnau with Church,' displayed in the Dutch city of Eindhoven's art museum since 1951