[1][2] A descendant of King Behanzin of Dahomey, she had a maternal grandmother of Brazilian origin.

[2] She graduated from the Centre de formation des journalistes on rue du Louvre in Paris.

[3] Géraldine Faladé is associated with the creation of the information and culture magazine La Vie africaine,[4] which evolved in 1965 into the title L’Afrique actuelle.

[4] She contributed to the development of the press in Chad during her career within the country's Ministry of Information.

[4] She is also the author of a collection of tales, Regards et paroles du soir,[6] collected on the advice of her sister, the pediatrician and psychoanalyst Solange Faladé [fr], and an essay, Turbulentes[7][8] in which she features the portraits of seventeen African women.