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Tweets @@dynamicafrica Posts tagged "france"  While the editor
of ELLE France has been making headlines this week for all the
wrong reasons, or rather just one (hint: it’s racism!), it’s
both interesting and refreshing to see France’s Minister of
Justice, Christiane Taubira, on the cover of their November
issue as the “Woman of the Year”.  Under that heading, Taubira,
who’s been serving as a minister and as part of President
Hollande’s cabinet since 2012, is quoted as saying, “I do not
fear racism, sexism, or ignorance”. Rightly so as, like her
Italian colleague Cecile Kyenge, Taubira has been the victim of
on-going public racial taunts and attacks by mostly far right-
wing French party Front National (FN). It seems European racism
lacks much creativity as the FN w