Biography.
 

Laura Nsafou is a French author of novels and children’s books. She is also known for her blog Mrs Roots.  

 

Laura Nsafou defines herself as an Afro-European author. She is both the heir to her father’s immigration history and her own experiences as a Westerner. Laura has a Congolese father and a Martinican mother.

 

At the age of 16, she published her first novel titled Callie, Just You and Me. Initially known under the pseudonym Mrs Roots, she wrote about the diversity of African and Afro-descendant literature and Afrofeminism in France on her blog. She is also the author of the children’s book Like a Million Black Butterflies, inspired by a quote from Toni Morrison’s novel; and a Young Adult trilogy, Our Burned Days, an afrofuturist quest inspired by west-African mythologies and beliefs. She released two graphic novels, Crossed Loves and When the Summer Comes.

 

Laura Nsafou is an important voice in Afrofeminist and DEI literature, continually exploring essential themes through her writing and activism.

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Laura was invited for our Comic Arts festival in 2022, she is the sponsor of the traveling youth literature festival Les Troubadours in the United States and in Canada in 2025.