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les Afropéennes - Afro-French women on identity, race and togetherness

les afropéennes

French women of African de­scend talk about the play les Afropéennes, a play which has been staged in Oc­to­ber in Paris. They tackle is­sues such as race, gen­der, sex­u­al­ity, in­jus­tice, stereo­types, cul­tural her­itage and alien­ation.

'les Afropéennes' means 'the Afro­peans' and it's the ti­tle of a play that has been adapted from two texts of Léonora Mi­ano, a French Cameroon­ian-born au­thor, 'Blues pour Elise' and 'Femme in a city'.

Her texts are bit­ing in an era where mi­nori­ties, es­pe­cially the Black com­mu­nity, are still seen as dif­fer­ent whereas they have been around for a very long time.