The Network Actors Editorial Board
Editorial Committee
The role of the editorial committee of the International Alliance of the Shackles of Memory’s website is to:
- define the editorial politics of the website (the launch of subject matter, quality control and coherence of content, nature and level of the distribution of information, etc.),
- propose content development,
- give approval of any introductory project or content modification and to choose the participants in charge of the drafting and updating of certain content handled by the website administrator based in Nantes.
The committee is representative of the network of the International Alliance of the Shackles of Memory and is composed of various categories, incorporating specialists of the slave trade, slavery and their contemporary consequences.
It is composed in the following manner:
1 - Category “Research”:
- Natacha BONNET, PhD in History at the University of Nantes, Professor at the West Catholic University (Angers)
- Antonio DE ALMEIDA MENDES, Lecturer at the University of Nantes, International and Atlantic History Research Center (CRHIA)
- Ibrahima THIOUB, Professor-researcher at the University of Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar (UCAD)
- Alioum IDRISSOU, PhD in History, Professor at the University of Yaoundé I
- Olivette OTELE, PhD in Anglo-saxon studies, Lecturer at the University of Paris XIII
- Jean-Marc MASSEAUT, Editorial Director of the Shackles of Memory journals, PhD from the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences
2 - Category “Archives/Museums”:
- Doudou DIENE, Special reporter on the discriminations and racism at the UN
- Mathieu DUSSAUGE, Attaché for the patrimonial conservation, Head of the Schoelcher Museum at Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe)
- Yolande VRAGAR, Director of the House of Heritage of Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe)
- Marie-Lucie VENDRYES, Former curator of the Haitian National Pantheon Museum, Museologist
3 – Category “Pedagogy”:
- Jean BRETEAU, Historian specializing in the Nantes slave trade, Former History Professor at the IUFM in Nantes, Founding member of the Shackles of Memory
- Philippe WIEL, Former History and Geography Professor at the IUFM in Nantes
- Jacques BACHELIER, Responsible for the pedagogical projects of the Shackles of Memory
4 – Category “Artists et tourist role-players ”:
- Eric FONTENEAU, Mixed-media artist from Nantes
- Jean-Louis HERMANN, Expert consultant in tourist development
- Sandrine MOTEL, Responsible for the projects of the Association "Pays de la Loire Cameroon", “tourist development” section
- Bernard ZEUTIBEU, Director of the Office of Tourism in Dschang (Cameroon)
- Philippe PICHOT, Coordinator of "The Road of Abolitions"
5 – Category “Human Rights”:
- Augustin EMANE, Lawyer, Lecturer at the University of Nantes Law School, Project Manager at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Nantes
- Nathalie NUNES, Expert consultant on International Law and Human Rights
6 – Category “Projet Fonds Francophone des Inforoutes” (The Francophone Fund Project for Information Highways):
- Patricia BEAUCHAMP AFADE, Coordinator of the Shackles of Memory
- Rui Manuel MASCATE, Webmaster and administrator of the website www.anneauxdelamemoire.org
- Mathilde BOUCLE-BOSSARD, Project Manager for the Shackles of Memory
- Cheickh KALING, Webmaster of the future website for CARTE - Centre Africain de Recherche sur les Traites et les Esclavages (African Research Center on the Slave Trade and Slavery)
- Ghislain BAMAGABA BOTOMBO, Webmaster of the future website for the "Arts, Traditions, Slaveries Museum of the Bamendjindala Chiefdom
- Smith VALERY, Researcher and future webmaster of the website for the Haitian National Pantheon Museum (MUPANAH)
7 – Category “Active Members of the Shackles of Memory”:
- Yvon CHOTARD, Active member of the Shackles of Memory
- Jacky CHARMANT, Active member of the Shackles of Memory, President of the Haiti Collective in Nantes
- Elise DAN NDOBO, Active member of the Shackles of Memory, Responsible of the “Guadeloupe” project, middle school English teacher
- Jacques DUCOIN, Member of the Shackles of Memory, Specialist in Maritime and Colonial History
- Thierry PROUTEAU, Member of the Shackles of Memory, Photographer from Nantes
