The International French Language City is one of President Emmanuel Macron’s major cultural projects. A place of life but also of creation, imagined and devoted entirely to the French language and French-speaking cultures.
You will tell me about the news is setting up its studios in Villers-Cotterets on the occasion of the inauguration of the Cité internationale de la langue française.
Since the French language is also a tool for creators, let’s turn our gaze towards them. How do the artists of the French-speaking world take it to bring it to life throughout the world? Why choose and how to write in French when you come from Congo or Guinea Conakry? Do these artists have the feeling of reproducing, conveying and evolving the culture of their native land with this language? Is the language of the Enlightenment still stimulating for them? And what could the Cité de la langue française allow them?
To these questions, at the heart of this inauguration day, the guests of VMDN: the Congolese slammer and novelist Fann Attikithe Guinean author and director Hakim Bah And Xavier Northchief curator of the French Language course deployed at the Château de Villers-Cotterêts, provide their insight.
RFI is invited to the Cité internationale de la langue française.