2024-01-06 13:00:01
Journalist Senior reporter, correspondent in French-speaking West Africa for BBC World News, Nicolas Négoce was the guest of Eddy M. Golabkan in the “From here and elsewhere” section.
It was following a little boy’s dream that Nicolas Négoce set foot on the African continent. Like a call he answered.
After three years spent in the editorial office of the Vox Africa channel in London, he was offered a great opportunity… Covering the 2010 Ivorian presidential election which saw the victory of Alassane Ouattara.
He’s not leaving again…
I think that the most beautiful thing that has happened to me in my life is my encounter with Africa. 25 countries visited in Africa, four countries where I had the chance to reside, and all that adds up. (…) It’s truly pure joy.
Nicolas Négoce, journalist
He sets down his suitcases in Togo, the Republic of Congo and Senegal… Takes the same pleasure in interviewing presidents as the peanut sellers. It’s all of Africa, its diversity, its warmth and this feeling of a return to its roots that makes it stay…
Even if he readily admits that there are sometimes challenges, more complicated periods, like the health crisis or the presidential elections, Nicolas Négoce does not regret his choices.
Decisions which will soon lead him to cover the African Cup of Nations football. An event on the continent.
If he remains attached to his island on which he grew up, on which, as a young journalist, he made his debut at France Antilles or Guadeloupe La 1ère, he today feels at home. Even if he readily admits that there are not a lot of differences between “peyi” and West Africa.
For example in Senegal, I can go 10 minutes west, 10 minutes west or north and I find myself on a beach. And I really like Senegal because I find that there is this warmth, there are the beaches, I am in love with the sea, and it reminds me a lot of the West Indies.
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