Une histoire africaine de l’Afrique : dans les coulisses d’un succès éditorial

As part of the La Voix des Indés festival, come and meet Sophie Caillat, founder of Éditions du Faubourg, to discuss the book "Une histoire africaine de l'Afrique" (2026).

In 2024, British-Sudanese journalist Zeinab

Badawi publishes the book An African History

of Africa. The fruit of more than a decade of travel across the states of Africa,

research and collaboration with local academics, this ambitious work

traces the history of the continent, from the origins of humankind in West Africa to the

end of apartheid in South Africa, breaking away from the Western point of view.

An international bestseller, acclaimed by the press,

the book is published in France in 2026 under the title Une histoire africaine de l’Afrique, released by Éditions du

Faubourg.

As part of La Voix des Indés, Sophie Caillat,

president of Éditions du Faubourg, will come to present this major publishing project to us.

From acquiring the rights to a foreign book to cooperation with L’Alliance internationale des

éditeurs indépendants for the distribution

of the book in Africa, by way of the crowdfunding campaign and institutional support in France,

Sophie Caillat will look back on the journey of this important and successful book.