Africa is a woman called beautiful
Welcome into my cultural and pan-African world
CECILIA EMMA WILSON
Cécilia was born in Lome (TOGO) and raised in France. She was born to a multicultural and multiracial family (Togo -Ghana -Benin -Nigeria -Brazil- Germany). She graduated from Sciences Po Paris in International Relations, a top French school. She is an award-nominated writer. She has made history twice as the first Togolese author to be shortlisted by the international literary prize “Voix d’Afriques” (2021) and as the first youngest Togolese female author to be featured at Harvard. Her first book on hybrid black identities and transculturalism is entitled Afropolis . Her second book is about the Geopolitics of Sports in the Gulf Region. She worked during four years for UNESCO, the UN agency that deals with culture and sport.
AFROPOLIS, Her last book on Black hybrid identities
AFROPOLIS at Harvard University
AFROPOLIS at Stanford University
AFROPOLIS at Northwestern University
Rapport sur les enjeux économiques du marché africain de l’art contemporain pour l’UNESCO.
Press & Mentions
Award Nominee l JC Lattès Publishing house
Telesud a francophone pan-African TV channel
Featured on Africa 24 a francophone pan-African TV Channel
African Geopolitics a magazine headed by The former ambassador of the Republic of Congo (facebook page) l Download the article in French
“De tout temps, c’est dans la résistance à l’épreuve de l’oppression que se sont forgées des transcultures africaines. Ni multiculturelles, ni interculturelles, ces transcultures résonnent comme des identités culturelles plurielles, où les cultures de départ et d’arrivée ne sont plus autonomes. ”