Gaston Kelman

Gaston Kelman is a writer born with Douala, Cameroun on September 1st 1953.

Biography

Raised a Christian culture , it enters to the Séminaire the September 15th 1965. It obtains finally a Maîtrise of Littérature in England where he will be member of the Black Panthers It arrives in France in 1982 and there Marie the following year. Director of the Observatory of the Trade union of New Agglomeration of the town of Évry during ten years, he is the author in 2003 Best-seller I am black and I do not like the manioc , in which he denounces certain prejudices of the white (and the blacks) towards the blacks. It is intervening regular of the emission of Radio the large mouths on RMC.

Ideas

According to its partisans, it opens a new exit vis-a-vis the Racisme, by not preaching only the fault of the white or that of the blacks, but of both. They regard its work as a true continuation of the fight against the racism of the novel black Peau, white masks writes by Frantz Fanon. Its thought is also inspired by that of Aimé Césaire whose Cahier of a return to the native land influenced it. Kelman also defends the right of each one to choose in its culture of origin what one keeps or not; Thus one can be black and not like the manioc.

Its positions are sometimes criticized in particular by the press which sees in him a traitor with the " cause; réparationniste" from Africa (Cameroon Platform).

In July 2007, it gives an opinion in favor of the Ministère of Immigration, Integration, the National identity and Codéveloppement created by Nicolas Sarkozy.

What does one reproach this ministry which, for my part, is most ambitious, that one never conceived on the matter? … By binding immigration and national identity, the capacity recognizes that immigration is constitutive of this identity which it must enrich, but of which it can also threaten the bases. Therefore, vigilance! Any nation has an identity| Gaston Kelman |Release, July 16th, 2007

Old of the Socialist party, it joined in November 2007 the movement of the modern Gauche.

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