Tag: ancestors
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…
Elisa commemorates enslaved ancestors during Keti Koti: ‘With my poems I bring their stories close’
A passage from Elisa’s poem for the Utrecht slavery monument Flight and Resistance: We’re standing still so that our ancestors rest on our shoulders and we wear them their strength…
“I’m ashamed of my ancestors who participated in slavery” – Laura Trevelyan paid reparations to the descendants of slaves and wants others to join
– As a descendant of a plantation owner who kept slaves, how does it feel to sit on one of their plantations with a descendant of a slave? This is…
Alzheimer’s disease: could its origin come from the consumption of fructose by our ancestors?
News Published on 02/27/2023 at 3:42 p.m. Updated 02/27/2023 at 3:42 p.m. Reading 2 mins. According to a new American study, Alzheimer’s disease could find its origin in an evolutionary…