Diversity

This page will regularly features content about the topics to be developed at the Gala, which are:

  • Diversity in business and in the arts;
  • Contribution of people of African ethnic or cultural heritage to the Swiss and European economy and society.

Stay tuned.





  • Severiano de Heredia
    Mayor of Paris in 1879
    of Afro-Cuban origin



  • Saint Maurice,
    Patron Saint of Valais, Swiss guards and to many other Swiss and French regions



  • Hannibal Barca
    Carthaginian (current Tunisia), winner of the battle of Ticino against the Roman Empire




  • Alexandre Dumas
    Writer
    French and Haitian descent




  • Cleopatra
    Ruler of the Kingdom of Egypt, having influenced the Roman Empire and beyond.



  • Frantz Fanon
    French born in Martinique, Psychiatrist, Theoretician and Activist in favour of self-determination of African countries and against racism.

  • Gaston Berger
    French of Senegalese descent
    Founder of Future studies
    father of the choreographer, Maurice Béjart




  • Alexandre Pouchkine
    Russian poet, playwright and novelist,
    great grandson of Abraham Hannibal,
    Cameroonian-born Chief General in the Imperial Russian army
And the list goes on.

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