Melissa Chemam
Bilingual journalist (English/French), writer, and radio/podcast/documentary producer.
I cover mostly African news and diaspora's lives & cultures.
I lived & reported in Europe, then in the United States & Haiti in 2008, in England in 2009 for the BBC World Service, in East Africa from 2010 to 2012, then in Central Africa in 2014.
Back in Europe, I started working on African-European relations, on documentary projects (with Raoul Peck), on the "refugee crises", on anti-colonial narratives.
In 2015, I came to Bristol to write a book about the birth of its counter-culture. The book retells the story of graffiti artists and bands like The Pop Group, the Wild Bunch, Massive Attack, Tricky, Banksy, etc. It was released in France in Oct. 2016; in the UK/US in 2019 under the title "Out of the Comfort Zone".
Between September 2019 and June 2022, I also worked as a Lecturer in Media/Journalism & as the writer in residence at the Arnolfini international Art Centre in Bristol, UK.
FFFA - Festival du Film Franco-Arabe de Noisy-le-Sec - Ed° 2025
AKAA 2025
DZ Fest 2025: Showcasing Algerian culture in the UK
DZ Fest showcases Algerian culture in the UK
Nalini Malani - 𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘏𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 at Tate Modern
Interview on Frantz Fanon with film director Rico Speight, from Harlem
Paris : Manifestation en soutien aux mineurs isolés sans logement
Visiting the 'Black Paris' exhibition at Pompidou with Johny Pitts
Exposition 'Paris Noir' au Centre Pompidou - Introduction
Extrait des "Damnés de la Terre" de Frantz Fanon, lu par Jean Yves Bertogal
Moroccan live and traditional music - MACAAL, Jan. 2025
'Le Miroir' (Act I) - Performance by Miles Greenberg @ 1-54
Touria El Glaoui @ 1:54 Marrakesh - African art fair
'After the End' - New decolonial exhibition at Pompidou Metz
Cedeao / Ecowas: Demo against AES withdrawal
Short insight in the Bristol Palestine Film Festival 2024
Marseille demonstration for the liberation of Georges Abdallah, for Lebanon and for Palestine
Interview with the UN's Francesca Albanese on Gaza
Textile waste: Interview with Greenpeace Africa
Paris for Gaza and Lebanon - 5 Oct. 2024
John Akomfrah's 'Listening All Night To The Rain' - Venice Biennale 2024 British Pavilion