Tunisia guest of honor at International Francophonie Week

Tunisia is this year’s guest of honour at the International Francophonie Week celebrated by the University of Rouen Normandy, TAP learnt.

The Institute of Interdisciplinary Research into Man and Society (IRIHS) and the University of Rouen are organising the event on March 13-17, in partnership with the Normandy Academy, l’Institut français de Tunisie (IFT),

the Alliance Française de Normandie and Baraques Walden civil society organisation.

Each year, a country is picked to be a guest of honour, like Madagascar, India and Quebec in previous sessions. In 2019, Tunisia was selected but the event was canceled over the COVID-19 pandemic, said IRIHS Director Foued Laroussi.

“Considering that Tunisia is the cradle of the Arab Spring and the country which hosted the 2022 Francophonie Summit in Djerba, we wanted to focus on the state of play of the French language in the country of Habib Bouguiba, one

of the leading figures and the founding fathers of institutional Francophonie, 23 years after his death.

Topping the agenda of the event

“2023 Commemorates 120th anniversary of the birth of a leading Francophonie figure: Habib Bourguiba” are communications by eighteen speakers, lectures, exhibitions, concerts, film screenings and symposiums.

“The Francophonie of the Founding Fathers” is the theme of a meeting along with a debate on Mohamed Aziza’s

book “Senghor’s Heritage” and Taieb Baccouche’s “Bourguiba, as I have known Him.”

Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP)