Tag: ancestors
“Faces of ancestors”, unpublished testimony on the history of slavery
These are exceptional testimonies to the history of slavery. Around fifty busts, cast in 1846 on former slaves, are grouped together in the exhibition Faces of ancestors. Among them, there…
Guyanese in Paris to “appease the souls” of their ancestors, exhibited in human zoos
A delegation of about twenty Amerindians from Guyana and Suriname, including a shaman and traditional chiefs, were in Paris from September 14 to 22. Their goal was to make contact…
Nadjezda’s frivolous tsarinas are an ode to her Russian ancestors
In Nadjezhda’s living room there is a wooden box that is artfully inlaid with a troika, a Russian sleigh with horses. From it emerge photographs that are over 100 years…
CM98 genealogical workshops to find your slave ancestors
In Mayotte, Reunion Island, Guyana, Guadeloupe and Martinique, millions of women and men lived as slaves for 213 years. Today, to build a peaceful memory around this crime against humanity,…
Difficult digestion, an illness of our times, not that of our ancestors
News Published on 03/31/2024 at 1:03 p.m. Updated 03/31/2024 at 1:03 p.m. Reading 2 min. It is often said that back pain is the disease of the century. However, this…
The genome of our ancestors tells us about the risk of disease, by Professor Alain Fischer – L’Express
The modern man – Homo sapiens – left Africa around 60,000 years ago, first reaching the Near East and the Middle East. But how did it then reach Europe? A…
Double sleep: this habit of our ancestors to resume – it made them less stressed and more productive
Thinking about sleep all at once is very cultural but far from universal. While sleeping in two periods would allow you to get your sleep quota and fight against insomnia.…
In the footsteps of migrant ancestors, with Nathacha Appanah
Nathacha Appanah is one of the great voices of French letters. Born in Mauritius in 1971, she is the author of around ten novels, the best known of which are…
Natacha Appanah, in memory of her Indian ancestors in Mauritius
Nathacha Appanah has published her first novel The rocks of Poudre d’Or in 2003. She is the author, in particular, of Last F=brother and of Tropic of Violence. His work…
Natacha Appanah: “I knew my ancestors were "engaged"»
The cultural guest today is the Mauritian novelist Natacha Appanah who, for the first time, delivers in La Mémoire délavée a personal story dedicated to her ancestors who came from…