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A homage to the people of Zimbabwe for their courage in confronting their daily lives. A dialogue about black and white identity, the impact of slavery and the persistent burden of colonisation. An acknowledgement of the adverse effect of Western aid on Africa. A wake-up call about demographic development. Most of all, an appeal to the black diaspora to fight corruption within Africa so that Africa can truly belong to the Africans.

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Initially studying science, Richard Boidin enrolled in Oriental Languages at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and the Institute for Higher International Studies (Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales) to qualify for the French Ministry of Foreign Affais (Concours d'Orient du Quai d'Orsay) in 1984 as a specialist in the Arab world and Africa. His first assignment was Baghdad, during the Iraq-Iran war, followed by a post at the Center for Analysis and Forecasting of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an analyst for the southern shore of the Mediterranean.In 1988, he became the international affairs advisor to Jack Lang at the French Ministry of Culture. In 1990, Daniel Toscan du Plantier, the president of Unifrance (an organisation promoting French cinema around the world), appointed him as his delegate general; and in 1994, J�r�me Cl�ment, the president of Arte, appointed him as his director of cinema in charge of policies concerning purchases and coproductions..In 2002, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs appointed him to supervise all the foreign language programmes of RFI, TV5, CFI, the Fonds Sud and programmes intended for Africa. In 2009, he became the representative for the information society and was responsible for defending French interests in international negotiations on digital issues. In 2013, he was appointed as the director of the diplomatic archives, where he initiated electronic archiving and increased the number of publications and exhibitions of the institution.From 2016 to 2020, he served as the French ambassador to Zimbabwe and Malawi. Marie Kuhn-Osius was born in New York, spent part of her childhood in Germany and is bilingual in English and German. She holds a Bachelor's degree in French from Beloit College and spent several semesters studying in France and Germany. She lives in France and has been working in the field of translation since 2006.

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