Registration details can be found in the Journal Officiel.
According to its website, La France Noire was born out of a desire to encourage the commemoration of the abolition of slavery on the one hand, while promoting important Black figures and their contribution to the country on the other. The president of the association, Raphaël Adjobi, writes that 'The absence of Black figures within our historical landscape is difficult to comprehend, especially given the number of Black people who, in the past, were celebrated as heroes. Why then do school textbooks choose to exclude them from our education, denying a whole section of our children important points of reference? We cannot sit by while this deplorable and hurtful reality continues; it we do not act, we become complicit. La France noire calls on your sense of moral duty: give meaning to the future of our children and make them proud of their past.'
The objectives of La France noire are as follows:
- To commemorate the abolition of slavery on 10th May, as part of a duty to remember slavery as a crime against humanity
- To promote the greatness of Africa, the power of its values and its contribution to the World
- To promote and spread knowledge concerning the contribution of Black people to the greatness of France
- To advocate reparations for African descendants.