Gia Abrassart is a journalist and activist based in Belgium.[1]

Biography

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Abrassart began her career in hospitality, before working for the International Committee of the Red Cross. She then returned to university to study journalism at the Université libre de Bruxelles.[2]

In 2012, she was a co-founder of the Warrior Poets collective.[3] In 2015, she co-wrote the Créer en postcolonie 2010-2015. Voix et dissidences belgo-congolaises book with Sarah Demart. That year, she also launched a lemon-and-ginger brand of drinks called Ginger G.[4] In 2018, she founded the Café Congo in the Studio CityGate, in Anderlecht, as a cultural space.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Génération décolonisation : Ces militants qui font trembler Léopold II". 28 June 2020.
  2. ^ "In Gia Abrassart We Trust, créatrice de synergies et de rencontres".
  3. ^ "Gia Abrassart | Humanities Academie".
  4. ^ "Gia Abrassart: 'L'art africain n'est pas encore traité équitablement.'".
  5. ^ "D'une radicale hospitalité". 19 August 2020.