Stephen Smith (journalist)
Stephen William Smith (born October 30, 1956 in Connecticut ) is an American-French journalist and Africanist.
Life
Stephen Smith studied at the Sorbonne (MA) and received his doctorate in semiotics from the Free University of Berlin in 1984 .
He worked as a freelance journalist and in 1986 became the Africa correspondent for Liberation . From 2000 to 2005 he was a senior editor at Le Monde newspaper . Smith also worked as a correspondent for Radio France Internationale and for Reuters in West Africa and Central Africa .
Smith has been teaching African Studies at Duke University since 2007 and also at Johns Hopkins University since 2013 .
Fonts (selection)
- Hermetic communication, ground plans for a semiotics of international reporting . Berlin, Free University, dissertation, 1984
- with Corinne Moutout, Jean-Louis Gombeaud: La Guerre du cacao , Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1990
- with Antoine Glaser: Ces messieurs Afrique . Paris: Calmann-Lévy, Vol. 1, 1992, Vol. 2, 1997
- Somalia, la guerre perdue de l'humanitaire . Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1993
- Oufkir, un destin marocain . Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1999
- Géraldine Faes: Bokassa I . Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 2000
- Negroology: pourquoi l'Afrique meurt Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 2003
- Le Fleuve Congo . Photographs Patrick Robert. Paris: Actes Sud, 2003
- with Antoine Glaser: Comment la France a perdu l'Afrique . Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 2005
- Atlas de l'Afrique. Un continent jeune, révolté, marginalized . Paris, Autrement, 2005
- with Géraldine Faes: Noirs et Français! Panama, 2006
- with Antoine Glaser: Sarko en Afrique . Paris: Plon, 2008
- Voyage en Postcolonie - Le Nouveau Monde franco-africain . Paris: Grasset, 2010
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La ruée vers l'Europe . Paris: Grasset, 2018
- To Europe! : young Africa on the way to the old continent . Translation Dagmar Engel , Andreas Rostek. Berlin: Edition.fotoTAPETA, 2018
Web links
- Literature by and about Stephen Smith in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Stephen Smith (journalist) in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Stephen Smith at perlentaucher.de
- Stephen Smith. Professor of the Practice of African and African American Studies , at Duke (en)
- Stephen Smith , at bibliomonde (fr)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Smith, Stephen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Smith, Stephen William (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-French journalist and Africanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Connecticut |