Elara Bertho

Elara Bertho is a CNRS researcher in the laboratory Les Afriques dans le Monde (Sciences Po Bordeaux). Her work focuses on resistance to colonization in West Africa and, more generally, on the relationship between history and literature. She has published Sorcières, tyrans, héros (Honoré Champion, 2019) and Essai d’histoire locale de Djiguiba Camara. L’œuvre d’un historien guinéen à l’époque coloniale (with Marie Rodet, Brill, 2020). She is director of the “Lettres du sud” collection at Karthala and sits on the editorial boards of several journals (Multitudes, Etudes littéraires africaines, Cahiers de littérature orale).