26 Facts About Rokhaya Diallo

Rokhaya Diallo was born on 10 April 1978 and is a French journalist, author, film-maker, and activist for racial, gender and religious equality.

Rokhaya Diallo was born in 1978, in Paris, France, to Senegalese and Gambian parents.

Rokhaya Diallo's father was a mechanic and her mother a sewing teacher.

Rokhaya Diallo's family moved to La Courneuve, a suburb of Paris, in 1989.

Rokhaya Diallo was asked to join in the city's Youth Council and rose to the position of president within two years.

In 2006, having heard that "most people consider being black and from a working class background to be a problem", Rokhaya Diallo founded the association, The Indivisibles.

Rokhaya Diallo was not bothered by attaching the question to one's origin, but she objects to people placing their own yearning for exoticism over her.

Rokhaya Diallo became a radio and television commentator and in 2011 she published Racism: a guide, in the philosopher Vincent Cespedes' collection.

In 2002, Rokhaya Diallo took part in different humorous short-films by the group Une case en moins, as an actress, singer and songwriter.

Since 2011, Rokhaya Diallo has hosted Fresh Cultures on the Mouv' ; she hosted and co-directed a monthly show Egaux mais pas trop on LCP.

Rokhaya Diallo has produced several reports for the French press, such as on women in Bahrain and on racism in Tunisia for Les Inrocks, or on the Black Lives Matter movement, which made the front page of the newspaper Liberation.

Rokhaya Diallo writes articles for the international press: The Washington Post, The Guardian and Al Jazeera.

Rokhaya Diallo has been a columnist since 2009 on RTL.

Since 2011, Rokhaya Diallo has been hosting France Culture on Mouv'.

Rokhaya Diallo was a columnist from 2009 to 2013 for Canal+35's La Matinale.

Caroline Fourest writes that Rokhaya Diallo complacently interviewed Dieudonne and Alain Soral in her programme Egaux mais pas trop on LCP on 9 August 2012.

Rokhaya Diallo will be alongside other new recruits: Rachid Arhab, who was a journalist and TV presenter on France 2 and a former member of the Conseil superieur de l'audiovisuel, Louis Morin, a former member of the Petit Journal, and Renaud Revel, former editor-in-chief of L'Express and head of the media section at the Journal du Dimanche41.

Rokhaya Diallo has been the presenter of the BET Buzz programme on Black Entertainment Television, alongside Raphal Yem, since 2016.

Rokhaya Diallo discusses political and social current events with guests and other columnists.

Rokhaya Diallo is a member of the advisory board of the Berlin-based NGO Center for Intersectional Justice, which seeks to address intersecting forms of discrimination and inequality.

Rokhaya Diallo is one of the signatories of a column, published in, criticizing two passages of a policy text adopted for three years by the Movement against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples at its congress on 30 March and 1 April 2012.

Rokhaya Diallo defines herself as "an intersectional and decolonial feminist".

Rokhaya Diallo is made for feminism just as I am made for being an archbishop.

Rokhaya Diallo is at best a useful idiot of Muslim fundamentalism, at worst a false nose of Tariq Ramadan.

Rokhaya Diallo's "feminism" is used to mock feminists of Muslim culture who dare to stand up to fundamentalism sometimes at the cost of their lives, accusing them of wanting to sell "best-sellers".

Rokhaya Diallo co-authored an op-ed published in Liberation on November 21,2013, taking a stand against the criminalization of clients of prostitution.