Audience at the 2nd writer’s colloquium
Audience at the 2nd writer’s colloquium
Photograph of the audience at the 2nd Colloque International des Écrivains, Journalistes et Communicateurs Traditionnels, which was organised by the Malian Centre and Mouvement Malivaleurs and held at Hôtel Massaley in Bamako on 29 November to 2 December 2016. Those seated on the front row from left to right are: Lamia Berrada-Berca, French-Moroccan writer and journalist; Aïda Diop, Senegalese writer; Khady Mint Cheikhna, president of the Mauritanian Centre; and Yéhia Ag Ibrahim Haïdara, writer from Timbuktu. The theme of this colloquium was “The rise of violent extremism as a threat to the state, social cohesion, rights and freedoms”.