Géraldine Faladé

Géraldine Faladé (born in Porto-Novo, Benin) is a journalist and writer of Beninese origin and a former employee at Ocora Radio France, the predecessor of Radio France Internationale. She contributed to the development of the press in Chad during her career within the country's Ministry of Information.

She is also known for her essay ''Turbulentes! : African Women Ahead of Their Time'' in which she highlights seventeen African women forgotten by history.

Early life, education, and beginnings
Géraldine Faladé Touadé was born in Porto-Novo in 1935. A descendant of King Behanzin of Dahomey, she had a maternal grandmother of Brazilian origin.

She graduated from the Centre de formation des journalistes on rue du Louvre in Paris.

Career
Géraldine Faladé is associated with the creation of the information and culture magazine La Vie africaine, which evolved in 1965 into the title L’Afrique actuelle.

She worked at the Office de coopération radiophonique (Ocora).

She contributed to the development of the press in Chad during her career within the country's Ministry of Information.

She is also the author of a collection of tales, Regards et paroles du soir, collected on the advice of her sister, the pediatrician and psychoanalyst Solange Faladé, and an essay, Turbulentes in which she features the portraits of seventeen African women.