Amina (magazine)

Amina is a monthly French-language woman's magazine aimed black women in Africa, Europe, the Antilles and North America. It was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Paris.[1][2]

Amina
September 2012 issue of Amina
CategoriesWomen's magazine
FrequencyMonthly
Year founded1972 (1972)
CountryFrance
Based inParis
LanguageFrench
Websitewww.amina-mag.com

History

In 1970, Michel de Breteuil followed the example of the South African magazine Drum and founded several women's magazine in different African countries, before uniting all of them into one magazine named Amina in April 1972.[3] Senegalese Simon Kiba was the cofounder of the magazine.[4] For the first three years, its headquarters were in Senegal, before they were moved to Paris in 1975. Initially aimed at black women in Africa, it expanded its readership to Black women in the Antilles, Europe and North America over the years. The first edition contained a thirty-two page fotonovela in black and white, with only the first and the back page being in color. Reportages about social issues and fashion have been added gradually since. Amina has got the highest circulation of French-language magazines for black women with several ten-thousand copies per month.[5]

References
  1. Anne Collet. "Les noces d'émeraude du magazine Amina". Slate Afrique. Archived from the original on 7 April 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
  2. Edgard Sankara (2011). Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies: From Africa to the Antilles. University of Virginia Press. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-8139-3171-5.
  3. Joanna Helcké. "Magazines in Everyday Life: negotiating identity, femininity and belonging in lifestyle magazines for minority ethnic women in France and the UK". London School of Economics. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  4. Sarah Fila-Bakabadio (2012). "Black Beauty Politics and the Afro-modern French Figure" (PDF). Inter Disciplinary. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  5. Schneider, Frédéric (2 April 2012). "Amina, "Le magazine de la femme", souffle ses 40 bougies". Afrik. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
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