Virtually Yours #20
Gauz'
A series of online discussions - Virtual Gatherings - with the award-winning author Edwige Dro, exploring contemporary African Literature with authors.
Born in Abidjan in 1971, Gauz came to France after studying biochemistry in 1999, officially to finish his studies, unofficially to "see something different". With or without a residence permit, Gauz gained professional experience of all kinds (from gardener to database designer), started as a scriptwriter (Après l'océan, Eliane Delatour, 2004), then became a documentary filmmaker, photographer, director of a business newspaper, editor-in-chief of a web magazine, promoter of a literary prize, etc.
In his book Cocoaïans, the political history of chocolate is told in an extensive historical fresco that runs through the 20th and early 21st centuries. It is a story of the emancipation project of the Cocoaïans, the inhabitants of cocoa country, to make and sell their own chocolate, and inscribes cocoa in a civilising discourse, a narrative of the conquest of freedom.
If you missed the session, you ca watch the record here> Virtually Yours 20.