Miriam Makeba and Stokely Carmichael in Guinea, the adventure of independence

Conakry? “A major center of decolonization and pan-African struggles.” But also, a postcolonial “intellectual and cultural crossroads” … With A Pan-African Couple. Miriam Makeba and Stokely Carmichael in Guinea , researcher Elara Bertho intends to demonstrate to what extent the Guinean capital stood out, in the 1960s and 1970s, as a space for emancipatory emulation without, however, omitting the horror of the dictatorship of Ahmed Sékou Touré , then in power. It was in 1968, ten years after Guinea’s independence, that Miriam Makeba , a South African singer with worldwide success and exiled since the 1960s,