Hello everyone. You're listening to the Earful Tower podcast, a weekly look at Paris, France,

and the characters that make the city of light shine. My name's Oliver G. And, well, I'm here again

with what I consider to be a pretty interesting story. I think you're going to like this one.

This is a chat with special guest Jacqueline Gompi, or Jackie, as I call her. And we're

talking about how she's working really

hard to bring attention to a village in Paris that's known as Little Africa. It's more officially

it's known as La Gouda and a couple of years ago it was he got a lot of bad press because someone, some of the media around the world referred to it as a no-go zone, which was actually a bit more of a no-no, if you hear what Jacqueline has to say. And she's in the middle of a campaign to build a cultural center in the heart of the good door and you know we chatted a couple

I guess it was a month ago when I did that charity push for Black Lives Matter I actually got in

touch with her and offered one of the prizes for the big raffle that I did was the book that she

wrote and so that's how we sort of got back and forthing and then now she's doing an indigo of her own to build this cultural center, this

hub, this place for people to meet, for events to be hosted, that kind of thing. She's going to explain

it. But one of her sort of missions is to show people and to explain to them all about this village in Paris

that's right next to Montmart and the Sacra Kerb, which gets a lot fewer visitors.

So I'm going to let her talk you through it. We chatted on Zoom.

Hang around at the end of the episode where I'll read some emails or Gmail, as I call it sometimes.

And if you fancy it, go to the show notes or my website or just Google it and support this Indiegogo campaign.

If you don't have the link in front of you, just search for Little Africa 2.0, a Parisian village on Indiegogo.com.

I've done it. I've supported. I hope all you guys do too.

Let Jacqueline know that Earful Tower listeners make a difference. But let's get into the chat.

I guarantee you'll learn something. And as always, all the information, every dish that's mentioned,

every shop has been collected by Eddie into a scroll that you can get

if you're a Patreon supporter.

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