For almost two decades, I have been working as a reporter from Europe, the Americas and Africa, mainly from Prague, Paris, Miami , London, then Nairobi, Kenya, East and Central Africa. Africa, where I was a freelance correspondent and reporter for the likes of the BBC World Service, DW, CBC, France24, AFP, Reuters... between 2010 and 2014.
For diverse magazines, websites, radios, podcasts and television projects.
I have also been reporting in the rest of the EU, the Middle East and North Africa, other parts of Africa, on politics, human rights issues, also writing about music, contemporary art and cultural policies, in English and French.
Also working with filmmakers, I was the main researcher for the film 'The Young Karl Marx' (2017) and the TV series 'Exterminate All the Brutes' (2021), directed by Raoul Peck, as well as a member of the team conceiving and promoting 'I Am Not Your Negro' (2016).
Cultural journalist too, in 2015, I started writing my first published book, Out of the Comfort Zone, centred on British music, art and activism, including a comprehensive history of Bristol’s music, street art and protest culture . I mostly thought of it as a history of British counterculture. I interviewed over 30 musicians and artists, members of the music scene and historians, over three years. The book was selected by Rough Trade as one of the 20 ‘Best Music Books’ of the year in 2019 (see here: https://blog.roughtrade.com/uk-books-of-the-year-2019/).
Since its release, I've also written a chapter about Bristol's reggae for another book published by Palgrave (released in Dec. 2020), one in the Vanguard book on Bristol's street art scene (published in July 2021), and an e-book about the African & Caribbean artists invited to exhibit at the Arnolfini gallery, as their writer in residence, interviewing a dozen of Black artists ('Here, There and Evenwhere', Oct. 2021: https://arnolfini.org.uk/here-there-evenwhere/).
Between October 2019 and June 2022, I worked part-time as a Lecturer in Cultural Journalism at BIMM Bristol, and in Journalism / Media Production at UWE Bristol.
I'm also a public speaker, podcaster and researcher, and I write poetry and fiction. I was invited in England and France to give masterclasses and lectures on history of cinema, the state of the media, of the EU and the UK after Brexit, etc. I worked with the Royal Academy, the Goodman Gallery, Arnolfini, Watershed cinema in Bristol and many festivals.
As for my education background, I hold a degree in European Literature (BA from La Sorbonne) and a masters in Political Sciences & Journalism from Sciences Po Paris - bilingual degree. I also studied modern history, philosophy and art history in Paris.
In 2003, I was a visiting student at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, and in 2012 I attended a Summer School at the Centre for Media Studies, European University Institute, in Fiesole, Tuscany, Italy.
For years, I worked freelance for many media, websites and cultural organisations, including the BBC (world service and radio 4), Deutsche Welle, Channel Africa, Vox Africa, Al Qarra TV, RFI / RFI English, Art UK, the Independent, Skin Deep, BBC Culture, the New Arab, the Reader's Digest, the Markaz Review, UP Mag, iNews, Channel 4 News, etc.
These days, I mostly work and reflect on African affairs, on multiculturalism, on the links between art, activism and social change; as well as on some social political dynamics especially around migrations and relations between the Global South and the West.
