“The Brazza report, a family secret, a state scandal” is an Original Spotify podcast written by Thibaud Delavigne, Charlie Dupiot and Antoine Jaunin. A fiction broadcast with the voices of Angélique Kidjo, Gabonese rapper Ekomy NDong and actor Gaël Kamilindi, which allows us to better tell a dark side of the history of French colonization in Equatorial Africa. Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza’s report was never made public and remained a state secret for a very long time.
It is a story that plunges us into the darkest hours of French colonial history, at the heart of the crimes committed in the Congo Basin against the local populations in French colonial Africa at the beginning of the 20th century. Responsible and guilty, the concessionary companies of the Congo Basin, but also the Republic, which conveniently forgot in a ministerial safe the report that it had nevertheless itself ordered from a prestigious figure and above all suspicion: Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza.
From this Brazza report, Thibaud Delavigne, Charlie Dupiot and Antoine Jaunin, have made a docu-fiction, and a podcast in 5 episodes of 30 minutes each, with insights from historians, linguists and anti-racist activists. The voices of the Franco-Beninese singer Angélique Kidjo, the Gabonese rapper Ekomy Ndong and Gaël Kamilindi, resident of the Comédie Française accompany this story.
“The Brazza report, a family secret, a state scandal” is an original Spotify fiction-documentary, produced by Spotify in association with L’Officine, in partnership with RFI and available free of charge.
Thibaud Delavigne and Ekomy Ndong are the guests of Jean-François Cadet.
Interview with Maya Bocquet, the director of the podcast “The Brazza report, a family secret, a state scandal” by Baptiste Antoine.
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