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Africultures is a publication of arts and culture about and from Africa and its diasporas. Based in Paris, it was founded in 1997 under the impetus of Olivier Barlet by journalists and academics such as Virginie Andriamirado, Gérald Arnaud, Tanella Boni, Sylvie Chalaye, Christophe Cassiau-Haurie, Fayçal Chehat, Soeuf Elbadawi, Boniface Mongo-Mboussa, etc. The magazine is managed by the association Africultures and it is published by L'Harmattan. Since 2012 the documentation produced by the magazine and its database made of over 45,000 biographies of artists and 55,000 description of books, mus

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Africultures documente et critique les expressions artistiques contemporaines, ainsi que les initiatives culturelles et citoyennes en rapport l’Afrique...

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Africultures s’est créée en 1997 autour d’une revue éponyme. Dès 1998, les contenus sont mis en ligne sur le site africultures.com . En 2006, naît le magazine gratuit Afriscope, qui a pour vocation d’atteindre un public plus large en France. En 2010, l’association lance le carnet imprimé « Afriscope en Français facile », à destination d’abord des habitants des foyers de travailleurs migrants d’Île-de-France, puis d’autres apprenants sur la région.

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Africultures is a publication of arts and culture about and from Africa and its diasporas. Based in Paris, it was founded in 1997 under the impetus of Olivier Barlet by journalists and academics such as Virginie Andriamirado, Gérald Arnaud, Tanella Boni, Sylvie Chalaye, Christophe Cassiau-Haurie, Fayçal Chehat, Soeuf Elbadawi, Boniface Mongo-Mboussa, etc. The magazine is managed by the association Africultures and it is published by L'Harmattan. Since 2012 the documentation produced by the magazine and its database made of over 45,000 biographies of artists and 55,000 description of books, music, films and institutions has been released under the open Creative Commons attribution share alike license.

In July 2007 it launched, 10 years after its creation, another organ, Afriscope, devoted to news on the same field, arts and culture related to Africa and African diasporas, while also covering topics related to social life.

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