Lucie Cousturier
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Lucie Cousturier (19 December 1876 - 16 June 1925) was a French painter and writer. She was known for the sympathetic books she wrote about her experiences traveling in French West Africa in 1921-22. Lucie Cousturier was one of the first to write on the subject of the relationships between Africans and Europeans, ahead of other French intellectuals such as André Gide with Voyage au Congo (1927) and Retour du Tchad (1928) and Michel Leiris with (L'Afrique fantôme (1934).
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