Jeune Afrique

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Jeune Afrique
Logo of Jeune Afrique
description newsmagazine
language French
publishing company Groupe Jeune Afrique
Headquarters Paris , France
First edition November 21, 1961
founder Béchir Ben Yahmed
Frequency of publication weekly
Sold edition 51,404 copies
(OJD (2015))
Editor-in-chief Jérôme Millan
editor Béchir Ben Yahmed
Web link jeuneafrique.com
ISSN (print)
ISSN (online)

Jeune Afrique is a French-language weekly magazine on the politics , economy and culture of the African continent.

Jeune Afrique emerged from a weekly newspaper founded in Tunis in 1955 with the title L'Action (published 1955–1958) and Action-Afrique (1960–1961), founded in 1960 as a successor .

The magazine Jeune Afrique appeared with this name for the first time in November 1961 in Tunis with the serial number 60 under the editorial management of Béchir Ben Yahmed , later relocated its publishing headquarters to Rome and from 1964 to Paris . In 1967, Editions Jeune Afrique, a book publisher, joined the publishing business. From 1983 publication of the monthly magazine Afrique Magazine (AM). The editorial concept was relaunched several times, most recently in 1995 and 1999, with the appearance of the 2000th edition. Among the editors-in-chief of the magazine was u. a. the future Guinean opposition leader Siradiou Diallo , who worked for Jeune Afrique from 1970 to 1991 , and the Lebanese author Amin Maalouf , who was editor-in-chief of Jeune Afrique in the 1970s and 1980s .

In addition to the publishing group's print editions , Groupe Jeune Afrique also has an online edition. Since 2005, the publishing group has also published the English-language monthly magazine The Africa Report .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Qui sommes-nous? . In: JeuneAfrique.com . June 1, 2015. Accessed June 8, 2016.
  2. Jeune Afrique - ciphers . In: ACPM.fr . Retrieved June 7, 2016.
  3. ^ Catalog général de la Bibliothèque nationale de France: Notice historique de périodique . bibliographic entry on www.catalogue.bnf.fr (French)
  4. ^ Catalog général de la Bibliothèque nationale de France: Notice historique de périodique. Jeune Afrique . bibliographic entry on www.catalogue.bnf.fr (French)
  5. Who we are . In: theafricareport.com . Retrieved June 8, 2016.
  6. ISSN  1950-4810