Gaston Paul Effa describes France as "a tired Nation"

On the occasion of the release of his new novel "Rendezvous with the time that hurts", the author and teacher of philosophy was invited to give his opinion, inter alia, on the integration of France.

Since his new novel tells the story of the Raphaël Elize Martinique who was the first black mayor of a commune in metropolitan France, Gaston Paul Effa could not escape questions about the integration of French from journalists of 'Jeune Afrique', especially in the light of the recent events in Paris, the attack of the newspaper 'Charlie Hebdo'.

As an echo to the Guinean Tierno Monénembo, for whom "the French State has never recognized its black heroes," Gaston Paul Effa noted, " France became a lazy country, stricken with amnesia, a tired Nation that folds back on itself and has trouble with her own identity. It should, if it wants to regain its place among the Nations, assume its story of a plural face.

He continued later in the interview, "there is a precarious nature of integration, even if it is considered safe, just a convulsion of history is needed so that everything is questioned.

In this France in crisis, there is the danger of isolationism, of communitarianism. It takes extra courage, love and strength, to impose this plural face. Loving freedom and brotherhood resistance, has opened the way".

About the slogan 'I am Charlie', the writer said, " it is condemning the loss of human life. It has a duty to identify and condemn the infamies of any form. And for this, any normal human being can only feel concerned by the horror.