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Lessons from France: African activist Brima Conteh talks about the roots and reverberations of the unrest in Paris.(Interview)

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| March 22, 2006 | Nguyen, Tram | COPYRIGHT 2006 Color Lines Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Born in Sierra Leone and educated in the Ivory Coast and Morocco, Brima Conteh emigrated to France in the early 1990s. "I came over and the conditions here launched me," he says of his journey from translator to political activist and consultant on minority issues. In 2000, he founded the Paris-based Diaspora Afrique (www.diasporafrique.org), which works to promote political, economic, cultural and social exchanges among people of African descent. The organization is building a network to lobby for the African diaspora within the European Union. They also conduct campaigns to educate and create political consciousness around the legacy of colonialism and the transatlantic ...

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