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A yearly rendezvous celebrating cultural and entrepreneurial initiatives by trailblazers of African ancestry.
From the curators:
“We are organizing the second edition of the Diaspora Salon in Marrakech because the conversations we began there felt both urgent and unfinished.
At a moment when narratives are being flattened, extracted, or automated, the Diaspora Salon is a space to slow down, gather with intention, and reclaim the power of authorship—of our stories, our images, our ideas, and our futures.
By bringing together leading authors, designers, filmmakers, artists, thinkers, and creatives from across the African diaspora, we are affirming Blackness as a global inheritance: plural, dynamic, and deeply rooted.
This year’s themes:
reflect a shared commitment to presence over erasure, creation over reaction, and long-term vision over short-term gain.
Jnane Tamsna in Marrakech, at the crossroads of Africa, the Arab world, and the global diaspora, offers a symbolic and practical ground for these exchanges.
The Diaspora Salon is not a conference, but a living laboratory—where ideas circulate freely, solidarities are formed, and new cultural, economic, and imaginative architectures can emerge.”
— Meryanne Loum-Martin, Mame-Fatou Niang, Claude Grunitzky
