Nouvelle Afrique — Reach Our Editors

Write to us. Storytellers welcome.

Have a lead on a forgotten recipe, a festival unfolding across the Sahel, or a question about a piece we published? Our editorial desk reads every message — and we reply, slowly but sincerely, in the spirit of the work.

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The Inquiry Desk

Send a note to the editors

Tell us what you carry — a memory, a manuscript, a magazine clipping from 1962 — and we'll find the right person on our team to respond within five working days.

Your message is read by a human, never sold, never spammed.
Direct Channels

Four ways our team listens

Different desks, different rhythms — pick the channel that matches the weight of what you want to share.

Editorial pitches

Send 250 words on the story you want told, where it lives, and why our readers should care. Attach one image if it helps us see the world you're describing.

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Press & media

Interview requests, embargoed releases, profile pieces, podcast bookings. Our communications lead, Fatou Camara, replies within 24 hours on weekdays.

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Rights & permissions

Reprinting an essay in a course reader? Translating a chronicle into Swahili? Write to our rights desk with the title, the author, and the intended audience.

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Archive contributions

Photographs, pamphlets, cassettes, family letters — if it tells a story of a continent on its own terms, our archivists would love to hear from you. Provenance always credited.

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Office & Hours

Where to find us, and when

Three floors of an old textile house on the Plateau, a small bureau in Accra, and a postal address in Paris for our francophone subscribers.

Dakar Newsroom

14, rue des Tambourins
Dakar Plateau, BP 4122
République du Sénégal

  • Monday – Thursday 09:00 – 18:00
  • Friday 09:00 – 15:00
  • Saturday By appointment
  • Sunday Closed

Accra Bureau

House No. 27, Osu Badu Street
Accra, Greater Accra Region
Republic of Ghana

  • Monday – Friday 08:30 – 17:30
  • Saturday 10:00 – 14:00
  • Phone +233 30 277 22 14
  • Visits By appointment

Paris Correspondence

9, rue de Charenton
75012 Paris
France

  • Subscriber services 10:00 – 17:00
  • Postal correspondence Mon–Fri
  • Telephone +33 1 43 38 09 17
  • Email [email protected]

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