Paulin Joachim is a Beninese poet, journalist, and editor. He was educated in several places including Lyon

Lyon

Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....

 and by 1971 was a French citizen. He also worked with French poet Philippe Soupault

Philippe Soupault

Philippe Soupault was a French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist. He was active in Dadaism and later founded the Surrealist movement with André Breton...

. His two volumes of poetry are Un nègre raconte in 1954 and Anti-grâce in 1967. He was political editor for France Noir, an editor-in-chief for Bingo, and manager for the African Décennie 2. He is also strongly associated to David Diop. In 2006 he was among the winners of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute

W. E. B. Du Bois Institute

The W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research is located at Harvard University and was established in 1969. It is named after W. E. B. Du Bois who was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University...

"W. E. B. Du Bois medal."