Former footballer Lilian Thuram, singer Laurent Voulzy and writer Dany Laferrière attended the funeral of writer Maryse Condé. Condé was born in Pointe-à-Pitre, in Guadeloupe, like Thuram.
“Education against racism” is at the heart of the foundation of the ex-athlete, a mission which refers to the themes running through the work of the author who has addressed Africa, slavery and multiple black identities. Her song, Amélie Colbert, evokes these skins, black and white, which give another color to life when they mix, a humanist and anti-racist theme that we find in her title Le soleil donne, she wrote. The writer of Haitian origin Dany Lierrière, member of the French Academy, resonates in places with that of Marysecondé, who died at the age of 90 at the beginning of the month at Apt hospital (Vaucluse)