Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana

Pierrette Gabrielle Herzberger-Fofana (born 20 March 1949 in Bamako) is a German-Malian politician of Alliance 90/The Greens and member of the European Parliament.

Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana
Member of the European Parliament
Assumed office
1 July 2019
ConstituencyGermany
Personal details
Born
Pierrette Gabrielle Fofana

(1949-03-20) March 20, 1949
Bamako, Mali
NationalityGerman
OccupationPolitician

Early life and education

Herzberger-Fofana grew up in Senegal. She graduated in Paris in German sociolinguistics and obtained a further degree from the University of Trier.[1] She earned her doctorate at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with a dissertation that addressed women's literature in francophone sub-Saharan Africa.[2]

Political career

In 2005, Herzberger-Fofana was first elected to the city council of Erlangen. She was one of the fifteen recipients of the 2009 Helene-Weber-Preis, which is awarded to women engaged in municipal politics. She is a board member of DaMigra, the umbrella organization of immigrant organizations.[3]

Herzberger-Fofana moved into the European Parliament on the 21st place in the European list of Alliance 90 / The Greens in the 2019 European elections in Germany 2019.[4] She is currently Germany's only black MEP.[5]

Herzberger-Fofana currently serves on the Committee on Development. In addition to her committee assignments, Herzberger-Fofana is part of the Parliament's delegations for relations with the Pan-African Parliament and to the CARIFORUM-EU Parliamentary Committee. She also co-chairs the European Parliament Anti-Racism and Diversity Intergroup.[6]

Personal life

She has three children.[7][2]

Controversy

On 17th June 2020, MEP Dr Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana claimed to have been harassed by two Belgian police officers. The accusation [8] was made in the camber of the European parliament. Brussels prosecutors have issued a criminal complaint [9] against her for defamation as well as for “acting rebelliously and insulting police officers”.

Works
  • Écrivains africains et identités culturelles: entretiens, Stauffenburg, 1989, ISBN 3-923721-92-7
  • Litterature feminine francophone d'Afrique noire, Editions L'Harmattan, 2001, ISBN 978-2738499059
  • Die Nacht des Baobab. Zur Situation der ausländischen Frau am Beispiel von Afrikanerinnen in Deutschland In: Afro-Look: eine Zeitung von schwarzen Deutschen, Band 8, 1992/93, S. 14–15. (1992 Rede zur International Women's Day)
  • Berlin 125 Jahre danach: Eine fast vergessene deutsch-afrikanische Geschichte, aa-infohaus, 2010, ISBN 978-3200020122.

References
  1. Beitrag von Robert Fikes über Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana auf blackpast.org
  2. Stanislaus Kossakowski (24 May 2019). "Zwei Mittelfränkinnen hoffen auf Sprung ins EU-Parlament". BR24. Bayerischer Rundfunk.
  3. DaMigra. "Vorstand" (in German). Dachverband der Migrantinnenorganisationen.
  4. "Alphabetisches Verzeichnis aller Gewählten – Der Bundeswahlleiter".
  5. Singh, Rajnish (13 November 2020). "Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana: Standing up for justice". The Parliament Magazine. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  6. Bureau European Parliament Anti-Racism and Diversity Intergroup.
  7. Johann Osel, Wolfgang Wittl, Lisa Schnell, Clara Lipkowski (27 May 2019). "Nach der Wahl ist vor der Wahl". Sueddeutsche Zeitung.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/117261/would-not-happen-to-a-white-mep-brussels-police-accused-of-racism/
  9. https://web.archive.org/web/20200701132734/https://www.euronews.com/2020/06/30/brussels-police-bring-defamation-case-against-black-mep-herzberger-fofana-over-racism-comp
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