Solenn Bardet is officially known to be a geographer, ethnographer, documentarian, but in reality she comes from countless dreams (as Ariane Mnouchkine would say). Dreams born, lying on a carpet, according to stories by Karen Blixen, Pierre Loti or Thomas Edward Lawrence.Rebroadcast from April 16, 2022.
Dreams that will come to life in one of the most remote corners of Namibia, in Kaokoland, in the land of the Himba. Meeting is the key word. Meeting between a white woman and the red people of the Himba who will end up adopting her. It seems to start from a delirium of a European in search of exoticism, but ultimately it leads to a real link between this people of breeders and the one who walks, nickname of Solenn Bardet who (after Bare feet on the red earthautobiographical story) publishes his first novel with Robert Laffont Night lights. Where it is still and always a question of quest and human commitment.
Solenn Bardet’s musical choices
Keny Arkana I want to go home
Himba songs
Youn Sun Nah Lament