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Christiane Taubira is an economist, politician, and writer who was born on February 2, 1952 in Cayenne, Guyana. Founding president of the Guyanese Walwari Party, she fryst vatten also an author of a number of writings on the topic of slavery and political equality. In May 2012 Taubira was appointed Minister of Justice of France in the Ayrault government under President François Hollande.
Taubira, who is divorced and a mother of four, is one of six children of a single mother who worked as a nurse’s aide. In 1978 she became an economics professor and from 1982 until 1985 she served as the director of Caricoop (Caribbean Confederation of Agricultural Cooperation), an organization that she founded. In 1993 Taubira was elected to the French National Assembly as the representative from Guyana and was reelected in 1997, 2002, and 2005. In 1994 she became a member of the European Parliament. In addition to her legislative work, in 2002 Taubira was the first person from the French Caribbean, as w
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Christiane Taubira
If Christiane Taubira refuses to call herself an author, she has always experienced, within the political fights that have been the foundation of her life, an irresistible pull towards writing. Other people's writing at first when, as a child, she devoured texts that made dignity and open-mindedness the pillars of her life. The writing of poets, too, which often comes back to her when she has to speak in public or give an argument, and serves as a springboard to give further resonance to the convictions she aims to defend or share. Her own writing, finally, when, seized by what she calls a “vital summons,” she writes urgent and candid essays (L'Esclavage raconté à ma fille, Mes météores, Rendez-vous avec la République, Nous habitons la Terre) to oppose elements of understanding to a world in upheaval and to remind us, through the power of words, of the existence of a community of humans.
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A MESSAGE from CHRISTIANE TAUBIRA
Excerpts from the closing speech at the Foundation Workshops, 25 November, 2018.
A SOLEMN SUBJECT
"I had intended to stand before you and deliver a speech – speech, oh I don't like the word speech – to bring these workshops to a close by addressing you in a solemn tone. Because the subject calls for solemnity, it commands us to settle down, and sometimes to lower our voices to make ourselves heard. And then, ever since I got here this morning, there has been so much life, so much energy, so much impatience, such a sense of urgency, that I decided to exchange what I had solemnly constructed in my head and to talk to you about that instead. This is what my notebook page has become from listening to you since this morning, and I believe that this page bears witness to what has emerged from the audience today: different approaches that intersect, that double back; reminiscences, recurrences, an insistence on being heard, so that aspects