Jeune Afrique

Jeune Afrique (English: Young Africa) is a French-language pan-African weekly news magazine, founded in 1960 in Tunis and subsequently published in Paris. It is the most widely read pan-African magazine.[1] It is also a book publisher, under the imprint "Les Éditions du Jaguar".[2]

Jeune Afrique
Jeune Afrique logo
EditorDanielle Ben Yahmed
CategoriesNews magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Total circulation
(52)		87,000
FounderBéchir Ben Yahmed
Year founded1960 (1960)
CompanyGroupe Jeune Afrique
CountryFrance
Based inParis
LanguageFrench
Websitewww.jeuneafrique.com
ISSN1950-1285

Starting in 2000, Jeune Afrique has also maintained a news website.

History and profile

Jeune Afrique was co-founded by Béchir Ben Yahmed and other Tunisian intellectuals in Tunis on 17 October 1960.[3] The founders of the weekly moved to Paris[4] due to the strict censorship during the presidency of Habib Bourgiba.[5] It covers the political, economic and cultural spheres of Africa, with an emphasis on francophone Africa and the Maghreb.

From 2000 (issue 2040) to early 2006 (issue 2354), the magazine went by the name Jeune Afrique L'intelligent.

Jeune Afrique is published by Groupe Jeune Afrique, which also publishes the monthly French-language lifestyle magazine Afrique Magazine, the bi-monthly French-language newsmagazine La Revue and the English-language news-monthly The Africa Report.

The headquarters of the magazine in Paris has been attacked in France two times, once, in 1986, and the other time, in January 1987.[6] Responsibility for the latter attack was claimed by the French nationalist group, Charles Martel.[6]

The magazine has an edition published for Tunisia, which has been suspended several times for covering sensitive news concerning the country.[7] For instance, from July 1984 to January 1985 it was banned in the country.[5] In June 1989 the magazine was also banned in Morocco.[5] During this period it had a circulation of 13,000 copies in the country.[5]

References
  1. "Qui sommes-nous ? - JeuneAfrique.com". JeuneAfrique.com (in French). 1 June 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  2. Les Éditions du Jaguar, "Qui Somme-Nous"
  3. Peter Karibe Mendy Lobban Jr. (17 October 2013). Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. Scarecrow Press. p. 467. ISBN 978-0-8108-8027-6. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  4. Paula Youngman Skreslet (2000). Northern Africa: A Guide to Reference and Information Sources. Libraries Unlimited. p. 57. ISBN 978-1-56308-684-7. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  5. James Phillip Jeter (January 1996). International Afro Mass Media: A Reference Guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-313-28400-7.
  6. "Paris shooting: A timeline of violent attacks on French media". The Star. Paris. 7 January 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  7. Daniel Jacobs; Peter Morris (2001). The Rough Guide to Tunisia. Rough Guides. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-85828-748-5. Retrieved 12 October 2014.

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