Grandir en tant qu’afro-tchèque pendant la guerre froide Tomáš Zmeškal et Obonete S. Ubam

This article explores the auto- and hetero-perception of people of African descent in the Czech Republic before and after the fall of communism based on a close reading of autobiographically-inspired works by Tomáš Zmeškal and Obonete S. Ubam. Its aim is to locate the source of anti-Black racism in a society that never had colonies in Africa or participated in the transatlantic slave trade, and to analyse how this imagination has reflected Czech self-perception as a nation.