Born in Senegal to West Indian parents, she has also worked in corporate communications. Afro-Caribbean, she has divided her time between Africa, where she lived for around thirty years, and Paris, where she studied and spent part of her professional career. Author of historical series for radio and print media, she also wrote a contribution to UNESCO's General History of Africa. She is also a municipal councilor in Fontenay le Fleury, a Parisian urban area near Versailles.
“Queens of Africa and Heroines of the Black Diaspora” published by Sépia.
With no black heroine recognized by universal history, Sylvia Serbin has focused on female figures who have marked the history of Africa and its diaspora, from Antiquity to the beginning of the 20th century. Queen Pokou (Ivory Coast), the mulatto Solitude (Guadeloupe), Ranavalona III (Madagascar), Madame Tinubu (Nigeria), the Amazons of Dahomey, Harriet Tubman
(United States), the Hottentot Venus (South Africa): in total, twenty-two portraits of influential women, resistance fighters, prophetesses, warriors, victims or mothers of heroes, most of them unknown to the general public.
Sylvia Serbin, guest of “THE ONE” in the show Expert.