Jeune Afrique
{{Short description|French Africa-focused news magazine}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2014}}
{{Infobox magazine
| title = Jeune Afrique
| image_file = Jeune Afrique logo.svg
| image_size =
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| company = Jeune Afrique Media Group
| paid_circulation =
| unpaid_circulation =
| total_circulation = 36,319
| circulation_year = 2020
| frequency = Monthly
| language = French
| category = News magazine
| founder = Béchir Ben Yahmed
| editor = Danielle Ben Yahmed
| founded = {{start date and age|1960|10|17|df=yes}}
| country = France
| based = Paris
| website = [http://www.jeuneafrique.com www.jeuneafrique.com]
| issn = 1950-1285
}}
Jeune Afrique (English: Young Africa) is a French-language pan-African weekly news magazine, founded in 1960 in Tunis and subsequently published in Paris by Jeune Afrique Media Group. It is the most widely read pan-African magazine.{{Cite news|url=http://www.jeuneafrique.com/qui-sommes-nous/|title=Qui sommes-nous ? - JeuneAfrique.com|date=1 June 2015|newspaper=JeuneAfrique.com|language=fr-FR|access-date=31 January 2017|archive-date=1 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201170009/http://www.jeuneafrique.com/qui-sommes-nous/|url-status=live}} It offers coverage of African and international political, economic and cultural news. It is also a book publisher, under the imprint "Les Éditions du Jaguar".{{Cite web |url=http://leseditionsdujaguar.com/qui-sommes-nous.php |title=Les Éditions du Jaguar, "Qui Somme-Nous" |access-date=8 February 2018 |archive-date=25 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525234214/https://www.laboutiqueafricavivre.com/79__les-editions-du-jaguar |url-status=live }}
Starting in 1997, Jeune Afrique has also maintained a news website.
Published on a weekly basis for its first sixty years, it has been published monthly since 2020.{{Cite web |date=2020-10-30 |title=" Jeune Afrique veut être un média quotidien " |url=https://www.strategies.fr/actualites/medias/4051968W/-jeune-afrique-veut-etre-un-media-quotidien-.html |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=Stratégies |language=fr |archive-date=25 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230125142817/https://www.strategies.fr/actualites/medias/4051968W/-jeune-afrique-veut-etre-un-media-quotidien-.html |url-status=live }}
History and profile
Jeune Afrique was co-founded by Béchir Ben Yahmed, then minister of information of Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, and other Tunisian intellectuals in Tunis on 17 October 1960.{{cite book|author=Peter Karibe Mendy Lobban Jr.|title=Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NbJ8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA467|access-date=15 May 2015|date=17 October 2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-8027-6|page=467|archive-date=4 April 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240404181648/https://books.google.com/books?id=NbJ8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA467#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}} The founders of the weekly moved to Paris{{cite book|author=Paula Youngman Skreslet|title=Northern Africa: A Guide to Reference and Information Sources|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q37mvzCo7CsC&pg=PA56|access-date=28 April 2016|year=2000|publisher=Libraries Unlimited|isbn=978-1-56308-684-7|page=57}} due to strict censorship imposed during the presidency of Habib Bourgiba. The magazine covers African political, economic and cultural spheres, with an emphasis on Francophone Africa and the Maghreb.
Jeune Afrique covered the emerging fedayeen movement of the Palestine Liberation Organization immediately after the 1967 war between the Arab states and Israel.{{cite journal|last=Chamberlin|first=Paul|title=The Struggle Against Oppression Everywhere: The Global Politics of Palestinian Liberation|journal=Middle Eastern Studies
|volume=47|issue=1|year=2011|pages=32–33|doi=10.1080/00263201003590300}} The magazine published an interview with Yasser Arafat in May 1968.
From 2000 (issue 2040) to early 2006 (issue 2354), the magazine went by the name of Jeune Afrique L'intelligent.{{Cite web |title=Quand Jeune Afrique redevient Jeune Afrique – Jeune Afrique |url=https://www.jeuneafrique.com/110496/archives-thematique/quand-jeune-afrique-redevient-jeune-afrique/ |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=JeuneAfrique.com |date=14 March 2006 |language=fr-FR |archive-date=25 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525234213/https://www.jeuneafrique.com/110496/archives-thematique/quand-jeune-afrique-redevient-jeune-afrique/ |url-status=live }}
Jeune Afrique is published by Jeune Afrique Media Group, which also publishes the monthly English-language news magazine The Africa Report.
The headquarters of the magazine in Paris has been attacked in France two times, once, in 1986, and the other time, in January 1987.{{cite news|title=Paris shooting: A timeline of violent attacks on French media|date=7 January 2015|location=Paris|url=http://www.thestar.com.my/News/World/2015/01/07/Paris-shooting-Timeline-of-violent-attacks-on-French-media/|access-date=7 May 2015|work=The Star|archive-date=13 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713231554/https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2015/01/07/paris-shooting-timeline-of-violent-attacks-on-french-media/|url-status=live}} Responsibility for the latter attack was claimed by the French nationalist Charles Martel Group.
The magazine has an edition published for Tunisia, which has been suspended several times for covering sensitive news concerning the country.{{cite book|author1=Daniel Jacobs|author2=Peter Morris|title=The Rough Guide to Tunisia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k2By-NdV93AC&pg=PP55|access-date=12 October 2014|year=2001|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=978-1-85828-748-5|page=55}} For instance, from July 1984 to January 1985 it was banned in the country. In June 1989 the magazine was also banned in Morocco.{{cite book|author=James Phillip Jeter|title=International Afro Mass Media: A Reference Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uLenDhrLQ8oC&pg=PA115|date=January 1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28400-7|page=115}} During this period, it had a circulation of around 13,000 copies in the country.
The COVID-19 crisis and the print media situation in France has led to the ongoing digitalization of Jeune Afrique. In early December 2020, Jeune Afrique's management announced the first redundancy plan in its history due to declining economic results caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.{{Cite web |date=2020-10-07 |title=Jeune Afrique engage un PSE portant sur une vingtaine de postes |url=https://www.strategies.fr/actualites/medias/4050712W/jeune-afrique-engage-un-pse-portant-sur-une-vingtaine-de-postes.html |access-date=2023-01-26 |website=Stratégies |language=fr |archive-date=26 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230126122415/https://www.strategies.fr/actualites/medias/4050712W/jeune-afrique-engage-un-pse-portant-sur-une-vingtaine-de-postes.html |url-status=live }}
In September 2023 sale of Jeune Afrique was banned in Burkina Faso, when the country's military government took offence at articles alleging tensions in the Burkina Faso Armed Forces.{{cite web|title=Burkina Faso junta suspends French magazine over 'untruthful' articles|website=Reuters|date=26 September 2023|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/burkina-faso-junta-suspends-french-magazine-jeune-afrique-due-untruthful-article-2023-09-25/|access-date=26 September 2023|archive-date=25 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230925214328/https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/burkina-faso-junta-suspends-french-magazine-jeune-afrique-due-untruthful-article-2023-09-25/|url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=Le Burkina Faso suspend la diffusion de « Jeune Afrique » à la suite d'articles évoquant des tensions au sein de l'armée |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2023/09/26/le-burkina-faso-suspend-la-diffusion-de-jeune-afrique-apres-la-publication-d-articles-critiques-envers-la-junte-au-pouvoir_6190975_3212.html |website=Le Monde |access-date=19 July 2024 |language=FR}}
Management
Amir Ben Yahmed, CEO
Danielle Ben Yahmed, Vice President
François Soudan, Vice President & Managing editor
Marwane Ben Yahmed, Director of publication
Mamadou Goundiam, Executive Director
References
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External links
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- {{official website|http://www.jeuneafrique.com }} {{in lang|fr}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081023092806/http://www.groupeja.com/en/jeune-afrique.html Overview and circulation figures] {{in lang|en|fr}}
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Category:1960 establishments in Tunisia
Category:French-language magazines
Category:French-language mass media in Tunisia
Category:News magazines published in France
Category:Monthly magazines published in France
Category:Magazines established in 1960
Category:Magazines published in Paris