Victoria Brittain

Journaliste britannique. Elle a vécu à Alger, Nairobi, Saigon, Washington, et a réalisé des reportages dans de nombreux pays d’Afrique, notamment en Angola, au Ghana, au Soudan, au Mali, en Ouganda et au Rwanda, ainsi qu’au Moyen-Orient. Elle a travaillé au Guardian pendant 20 ans et a contribué au Monde diplomatique et à AfriqueAsie. Elle est l’auteur de plusieurs livres et pièces de théâtre.

Entretien Joe Modise. 30 years heading the army which defeated apartheid Victoria Brittain · 11 April A collective book tells the story of the man who was the commander of the armed wing of the African National Congress before accompanying, as Nelson Mandela’s Minister of Defence, the transition of the South African armed forces towards a mixed and democratic army. Joe Modise a central player in (…)
The astonishing legacy of French counter-insurgency doctrine Victoria Brittain · 18 February In a book based on extensive archives, US historian Terrence Peterson describes the ‘pacification’ carried out by the French army in Algeria in an attempt to erase the Indochinese disaster of Diên Biên Phu in 1954. It was a method that provided lasting inspiration for other armies, including (…)
Interview Howard W. French. “Africans were at the heart of the bulding of our modern world” Victoria Brittain · October 2024 In a fascinating essay, Born in Blackness, Howard W. French, an American journalist turned academic, goes against the prevailing historical orthodoxy. Thanks to a wealth of documentation, he demonstrates that Africa and enslaved Africans played a major role in the construction of what has been (…)
DRC-USA. “Lumumba’s murder was an international tragedy” Victoria Brittain · October 2024 Stuart Reid, editor of Foreign Affairs Magazine, is the author of a meticulous investigation into the assassination in 1961 of the Prime Minister of the independent Congo, Patrice Emery Lumumba. He lays bare the obsessions of Washington during the Cold War that blinded the US authorities of the (…)
Interview “The forces that were arrayed against Thomas Sankara were too much” Victoria Brittain · October 2024 American historian Brian J. Peterson, who spent years investigating in Burkina Faso and the United States, has published a landmark book on Thomas Sankara. This biography provides a detailed account of the Burkinabe revolutionary’s career and personality, and sheds new light on the (…)