Serge Bilé is an internationally acclaimed Ivorian writer, producer and director who has captured the hearts of readers with his impressive pen. Today, he is one of the most widely read writers in the world. His works have touched several generations.
Serge Bilé is a Franco-Ivorian journalist born on June 26, 1960 in Agboville. He worked for Martinique la Première and was the station's news anchor from July to August 2019. He studied literature and taught German at Poitiers prison from 1990 to 1991. After completing his master's degree, he became a journalist at RFO Paris in 1993. From there he moved on to RFO Guyane, then RFO Martinique.
A writer and producer/director, he is the author of essays and documentaries on the black African, Caribbean and South American worlds. In 1994, he also founded Akwaba, an intercultural association of Ivorians and Martinicans whose aim is to create links between Africans and West Indians. In 1995, the National Union of Journalists of Côte d'Ivoire awarded him the Ebony prize.
A passionate music fan, he has also written for numerous artists. He is the author of the song Nouveau Monde, awarded by Sacem and recorded for Unicef by a host of celebrities. In January 2005, ten years after the documentary Noirs dans les camps nazis (1995), he published the essay Noirs dans les camps nazis. The book was heavily criticized by three historians, Joël Kotek, Tal Bruttman and Odile Morisseau, who denounced its errors and lack of scientific rigor.
Today, Serge Bilé is a creative producer and director of documentaries on the Black world. Historical and rare themes: the Boni of Guyana, prime at the Montreal Film Festival, Blacks in Nazi Camps and, more recently, Maurice, le saint noir. He is the author of the musical Soweto, about the life and struggle of Nelson Mandela, which received rave reviews in the West Indies and at the Casino de Paris. In 2001, he penned a number of songs for Martinique diva Giselle Baka's album, including "Je t'aime", which became a hit in the Caribbean and is regularly broadcast on FM radio.
Bibliography - Works
Blacks in the Nazi camps (2005, Éditions Serpent à plumes)
La légende du sexe surdimensionné des Noirs (2005, Éditions Serpent à plumes)
Sur le dos des hippopotames (2006, Éditions Calmann-Lévy)
Quand les Noirs avaient des esclaves blancs (2008, Éditions Pascal Galodé)
Le miracle oublié: chronique des apparitions de la Vierge Marie en Martinique (2008, Éditions Pascal Galodé)
Et si Dieu n'aimait pas les Noirs : enquête sur le racisme aujourd'hui au Vatican (2009, Éditions Pascal Galodé)
Au secours, le prof est noir ! enquête sur le racisme dans l'Éducation nationale (with Mathieu Méranville) (2009, Éditions Pascal Galodé)
Blanchissez-moi tous ces nègres (2010, Éditions Pascal Galodé)
Sombres Bourreaux - collabos africains, antillais, guyanais, réunionnais et noirs américains, dans la deuxième guerre mondiale (2011, Éditions Pascal Galodé)
La Mauresse de Moret - La religieuse au sang bleu (2012, Éditions Pascal Galodé)
Singe, les dangers de la banalisation des esprits (with Audifac Ignace) (2013, Dagan Editions)
Poilus nègres: Creole and African soldiers in 14-18 (in collaboration with Mathieu Méranville) (2014, Dagan)
Esclave et bourreau : l'histoire incroyable de Mathieu Léveillé, esclave de Martinique devenu bourreau au Canada (2016, Serpent à plumes)
In Aimé Césaire's secret garden (2017, Jasor)
Les Noirs dans l'histoire : clichés et préjugés de l'époque coloniale à nos jours (in collaboration with Mathieu Méranville) (2017, L'Archipel)
Boni: the birth of a people (2018, Rymanay)
Le seul passager noir du Titanic (2019, éditions Cercle Media)
Tales
Tiwa et la pierre miroir (2006, Édition Monde Global)
Collective work
Dadié, l'homme de tous les continents. Cent écrivains du monde rendent hommage au centenaire vivant (2019, Éditions Eburnie, Abidjan), Collectif ;
Documentaries
The Boni of Guyana (1994)
Blacks in the Nazi camps (1995)
Maurice le saint noir (1998)
A day in the life of Marie-Madeleine (2009)
Words of slavery (2010)
Musicals
Soweto (2008, Show on the life of Nelson Mandela)
1902 (2010, Show about the eruption of Montagne Pelée)