iYá Africa constitutes an Afro-political renewal. There is certainly a multitude of African associations but there was no place where the diaspora and Africans could meet around common subjects, around "African soft power" and what the continent of humanity has. left to the world. The difficult identification of African-American and Afro-Brazilian students with the media and existing associations made the urgent creation of iYá necessary. iYá is therefore at a crossroads, celebrating diversity and the transcultural, celebrating the African matrix in the world, and important in a French-speaking environment foreign to these subjects, the analyzes already carried out in the political strongholds of the offices of African Studies in United States.
Four students and friends came together to create this project. There was a young French woman from Benin-Togo, studying African-American studies in Florida, Assiata Adams. There was also a young Cameroonian law student in Norway, Francisca Chouli. There was a young French girl who had spent her childhood between Cameroon and France. And finally, I was also one of the students at the initiative of iYá. My Afro-Brazilian, Togolese, Nigerian and German origins required the creation of an association at the crossroads of hybrid identities.
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