Fania Noël, or Fania Noël-Thomassaint, is a Franco-Haitian author and an activist for

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causes.

Career

Noël was born in Haiti, and she grew up in

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, France. Noël studied at the

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, obtaining a master's degree in political science there. Noël was a co-founder of the publication ''AssiégéEs'', which she became publication director of in 2015. Noël authored the book ''Afro-communautaire : Appartenir à nous-mêmes'' as well as the edited collection ''Afrofem'', both released with the publisher ''Éditions Syllepse'' ( Fr). In addition to writing and editing, Noël has also engaged in political and social activist work. Originally an activist with the French Socialist Party, she then moved to the Left Front, before disavowing these institutional affiliations and joining the activist collective ''Mwasi'' (which means "girl" or "woman" in

Lingala Lingala (Ngala) (Lingala: ''Lingála'') is a Bantu language spoken in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the northern half of the Republic of the Congo, in their capitals, Kinshasa and Brazzaville, and to a lesser degree in ...

). Noël was also a co-founder of the

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movement in France.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Noel, Fania Living people Haitian human rights activists Women human rights activists Haitian women activists 21st-century French writers 21st-century French women writers 21st-century Haitian writers Year of birth missing (living people)