About
Research Fellow at the CNRS in Bordeaux, within the “Les Afriques dans le monde” laboratory. A certified teacher of modern literature, she is the author of *Sorcières, tyrans, héros. Postcolonial Memoirs of African Resistance Fighters (Honoré Champion, 2019) and co-edited the book “Essai d’histoire locale” by Djiguiba Camara (Drill, 2020).
Latest publication
Playing Traitors too Well in the Theatre in Sékou Touré’s Guinea, from 1958 to 1984 (an Article in which you are the Hero)
- By Elara Bertho
In Politique africaine (2025/2-3 n° 178-179)
Most viewed articles
Playing Traitors too Well in the Theatre in Sékou Touré’s Guinea, from 1958 to 1984 (an Article in which you are the Hero)
- By Elara Bertho
In Politique africaine (2025/2-3 n° 178-179)
Black Authors and Literary Prizes: Investigation and Retaliation in the Work of Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
- By Elara Bertho
In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2022/3 77th year)
Francophone Literatures
For a Decentralized History
- By Elara Bertho
- and Elgas
In Multitudes (2025/3 n° 100)
What’s new with artists’ political commitment?
- Edited by Elara Bertho,
- Armelle Gaulier
- and Maëline Le Lay
In Multitudes (2022/2 No 87)
Co-authors
Articles
Michiel Van Oosterhout (director), Florence Brisset-Foucault, Jimmy Spire Ssentongo and Michiel Van Oosterhout (co-writers), The Tongue Turns to the Aching Tooth (France, 2025, 41 min)
In Politique africaine (2025/2-3 n° 178-179)
Playing Traitors too Well in the Theatre in Sékou Touré’s Guinea, from 1958 to 1984 (an Article in which you are the Hero)
In Politique africaine (2025/2-3 n° 178-179)
Francophone Literatures
For a Decentralized History
- By Elara Bertho
- and Elgas
In Multitudes (2025/3 n° 100)
Adenekan (Shola) African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya, Woodbridge, James Currey, 2021, 224 pages
In Politique africaine (2024/2 n° 174)
Africanist
Reviewed: Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Le Choix de l’Afrique. Les combats d’une pionnière de l’histoire africaine, Paris, La Découverte, 2021. 304 pp., €22.
- By Elara Bertho,
- Translated by Susannah Dale
In Books & Ideas (2024/1)
Girard-Muscagorry Alexandre & Nur Goni Marian (eds.). — dossier thématique « Patrimoines africains. Les performances politiques des objets »
In Cahiers d’études africaines (2023/3 No 251-252)
Black Authors and Literary Prizes: Investigation and Retaliation in the Work of Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2022/3 77th year)
Jhonel, a “modern griot”
What commitment for slam in Niger?
- By Elara Bertho
- and Sandra Bornand
In Multitudes (2022/2 No 87)
What’s new with artists’ political commitment?
- Edited by Elara Bertho,
- Armelle Gaulier
- and Maëline Le Lay
In Multitudes (2022/2 No 87)
Transient Shrines. Four avenues of research in the archives of the Paris attacks
- By Elara Bertho,
- Xavier Garnier,
- Aline Marchand
- et al.
In Littérature (2020/2 No 198)
To restore = to connect, to live
Felwine Sarr’s cosmopolitan thinking
In Multitudes (2020/1 No 78)
Pierre-Joseph Laurent, Amours pragmatiques. Familles, migrations et sexualité
In Afrique contemporaine (2018/3 No 267-268)
Deconstructing or Reproducing. About Sexe, race & colonies
In Cahiers d’études africaines (2020/1 No 237)
On crossings
- Interview with Sylvie Kandé,
- conducted by Elara Bertho
In Multitudes (2019/3 No 76)
The Mediterranean migrations
Between investigation and thriller
- Interview with Mohamed Mbougar Sarr,
- conducted by Elara Bertho
In Multitudes (2019/3 No 76)
Writing from the other side
Political fictions to say the crossing
In Multitudes (2019/3 No 76)
Theater and migrations
Between Conakry and Paris
- By Hakim Bah,
- Interview conducted by Elara Bertho
In Multitudes (2019/3 No 76)
Performing Family Historical Knowledge for Political Legitimation: Djiguiba Camara (Guinea)
- By Elara Bertho
- and Marie Rodet
In Cahiers d’études africaines (2019/2 No 234)
Restitutions of African art
Fictions and reality
In Multitudes (2019/1 No 74)
Photographs of Samori Touré: From the colonial postcard to record covers. Circulations of an iconic picture
In Cahiers d’études africaines (2018/2 No 230)
Carré, Nathalie. — De la Côte aux confins. Récits de voyageurs swahili
In Cahiers d’études africaines (2018/1 No 229)
The History of the Chimurenga (Zimbabwe)
Thresholds in the co‑construction of Knowledge
In Journal des anthropologues (2017/1 n° 148-149)
Filming Resistance to Colonization
Postcolonial Strategies of Memory and Forgetting. On the screenplay of the film Samori by Sembène Ousmane
In Cahiers d’études africaines (2016/4 No 224)
Robert Darnton, L’Affaire des Quatorze. Poésie, police et réseaux de communication à Paris au XVIIIe siècle
Translated from American English by Jean-François Sené, Paris, Gallimard, coll. NRF essais, 2014, 218 pages
In Questions de communication (2015/2 No 28)