Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch (born 25 November 1935 in

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) is a French historian and Africanist. She is professor emeritus at

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Biography

She graduated from the ''École normale supérieure de'' ''Sèvres'' in 1959. She earned her third cycle doctorate from the ''

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'' in 1966. She was a fellow at the

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in Washington D.C. in 1987, at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at

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in 1992, and at the Humanities Research Center, University of Canberra at the

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in 1995. Her research deals with the political issues of colonization as well as the idea of imperialism and capitalism in Africa.

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* 1935 births Living people Grand Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite Commanders of the Legion of Honour Historians of slavery Historians of Africa 21st-century French historians 20th-century French historians French women historians 20th-century French women writers 21st-century French women writers French Africanists Historians of the Republic of the Congo {{Africa-studies-bio-stub