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Karine Ancellin is professor of Language and Literature in Athens Greece

Bah Ould Saleck
Bah Ould Saleck is an advocate of press freedom in Africa, most particularly in the Maghreb, starting from his country of origin, Mauritania. He is a journalist, an editor and a publisher. After the France induced ‘wind of democracy’ on Africa in 1991 - by President Mitterrrand La Beaule’s speech- Bah Ould Saleck created a weekly magazine Mauritanie Nouvelles that was repeatedly censored and eventually shut down by the government through unbearable financial pressures in January 1998. Mauritanie Nouvelles had become a daily and had the largest circulation in the country after the national newspaper Chaab. In 1996 Bah Ould Saleck was awarded the ‘Prix de la libre Expression’ by the UIJPLF. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prix_de_la_libre_expression

In 2011 he created a Television channel TVSahel for the Sahel region http://www.lauthentic.info/spip.php?article1813 broadcasting from an Arab satellite Arabsat Badr 4 for a period of 9 months until he was dispossessed by the government acting through the investors, who then criticized the political line being proFrench, proMinorities and not sufficiently Islamic and placed a straw man pro-government. http://rimweb.net/bah-ould-saleck-resiste-au-ca-de-mauri-vision-tv-et-refuse-de-demissionner-rep-photos/

He now works as a consultant for the Universal Expo, in Shanghai http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2010-06/04/content_9932711.htm and now in Milan. His contention over TVSahel is in the courts.

Early life and family background

Bah Ould Saleck was born in the town of Nouadhibou, called Port Etienne then a French Colony for the exploitation of Iron ore mining. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouadhibou Nouadhibou was near La Guera, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Güera in the Spanish Colony of the Rio Del Oro. So Bah Ould Saleck went to a French school, raised by a canarian nanny. Then he did his last years of schooling at a boarding school in Nice, as his uncle was then Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the first government of the independent country.

Education

Bah Ould Saleck studied at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of the boulevard Rspail in Paris. Then attended the Ecole Superieure de journalisme in Paris and began working for the magazine Afrique Asie, that was then a leading voice of the Postcolonial era. Afrique Asie http://www.afrique-asie.fr

Personal life

Married to Karine Ancellin Saleck, they have four children: Yassin, Kaza, Azzedine and Hakim.

References LINKS

AWARD https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prix_de_la_libre_expression

TVSAHEL http://www.lauthentic.info/spip.php?article1813

TVSAHEL http://rimweb.net/bah-ould-saleck-resiste-au-ca-de-mauri-vision-tv-et-refuse-de-demissionner-rep-photos/

EXPO SHANGHAI 2010 http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2010-06/04/content_9932711.htm Afrique Asie http://www.afrique-asie.fr ,