Géraldine Faladé

Géraldine Faladé Touadé was born in Porto-Novo in 1935.^[1][2] A descendant of King Behanzin of Dahomey, she had a maternal grandmother of Brazilian origin.^[2] She grew up in an intellectual and activist family. Her father Maximilen Faladé was an erudite man, a civil servant critical of colonization who participated in the founding of the newspaper La Voix du Dahomey. Her sister, Solange, was one of the first African psychoanalysts and for a time headed the association Fédération des étudiants d’Afrique noire en France.^[3]

She graduated from the Centre de formation des journalistes on rue du Louvre in Paris.^[4]

External videos
Turbulentes! by Géraldine Faladé Touadé Oct 3, 2020 TV5Monde Info

Géraldine Faladé is associated with the creation of the information and culture magazine La Vie africaine,^[5] which evolved in 1965 into the title L’Afrique actuelle.^[6]

During her career as a journalist, she covered important events, including the assassination of Patrice Lumumba and the massacre of Algerians in Paris in 1961.^[7] She worked at the Office de Coopération Radiophonique (Ocora).^[5] Faladé contributed to the development of the press in Chad during her career within the country's Ministry of Information.^[5]

She was also the author of a collection of tales, Regards et paroles du soir,^[8] collected on the advice of her sister, the pediatrician and psychoanalyst Solange Faladé [fr], and an essay, Turbulentes^[9][10] in which she features the portraits of seventeen African women.^[11][12]

Faladé died in France on 16 February 2025, at the age of 90.^[3]