In Agbodrafo, Brussels, Abidjan, Paris, Dubai, Kigali, Cergy, Cotonou, Saint-Denis, Créteil, Limoges, Yaoundé… indoors or outdoors, here are sixteen events of Afro or African culture not to be missed miss this month of March 2024. Do not hesitate to send us your next “unmissable” cultural events to [email protected].
From March 1st to 3rd the festival will take place The Unchained in Agbodrafo, half an hour from Lomé, organized by the French Institute of Togo. The sixth edition appears as a “ claim of a history and a culture through exchanges of knowledge and cultural and artistic practices “. On the program: rap, graffiti, slam, breakdancing, but also ballet, traditional parades, fashion, cooking, sport, tattoos, meetings and the discovery of a village.
From March 1 to 3, theAfropolitan Festival Brussels 2024 presents “An Uprising of Dreams” promising worlds of visual art, performance and music blending seamlessly through the eyes of Afropolitan artists. A multidisciplinary artistic and political reflection around the theme “dream and action”.
From March 1 to 3, Mamane welcomes for the ninth edition of the festival Abidjan Capital of Laughter For ” celebrate together the capital of humor in Africa “.
From March 1 to 30, the Galerie du Jour Agnès B. presents in Paris the first solo exhibition of JD ‘Okhai Ojeikere : Sculptures for a Day. His series Hairstyles And Headdress are the expression of the genius of the Nigerian photographer in capturing the ephemeral art of hairstyle worn by Nigerian women.
Until March 3, the Afriart gallery presents an individual exhibition of the Ugandan modernist painter Samuel Kakaire at Art Dubai 2024. The “Art Dubai Modern” section of the fair explores artists and filmmakers from the Middle East, Africa and South Asia who participated in cultural exchange programs with the Soviet Union and how this experience shaped their works and careers.
Until March 5, Artcurial, in collaboration with OOA Gallery, pays tribute to Marion Boehm. “ Collage as a mirror of African identities » brings together a sales exhibition of eighteen previously unpublished portraits of the German artist who lived in Johannesburg and died in 2023. “This varied collection traces her different artistic explorations around nomadism, femininity and the diversity of African identities”, notably during his meetings with the communities of Kliptown. “ Practicing the technique of collage, the artist plays with superpositions of textiles, colored fabrics, jewelry, beads and patterns. »
Draw to resist. The series launched on March 6 on arte.tv and highlights women cartoonists in Syria, India, Russia, Mexico and Egypt who challenge the red lines and taboos of their countries. At the heart of Nada Riyadh’s documentary is the Egyptian press cartoonist Doaa El-Adla leading figure for women’s freedom in a country that has once again become a military dictatorship.
From March 6 to 9, the third edition of the International meetings of French-speaking books in Rwanda. The Francophone Cultural Center of Rwanda invites writers, artists and book and publishing professionals to Kigali, as well as school audiences and the general public. “ In this year of the 30th commemorations, works devoted to the genocide perpetrated against the Tutsi and their perpetrators will be particularly in the spotlight of the 2024 edition of the Meetings. »
From March 7 to 16, the sixth edition of Arts & Humanities Festival, in Cergy-Pontoise, is hosting this year eight projects by artists from countries where artistic expression is often a struggle: Mallika Taneja is a feminist in India; Gosia Wdowik works in Poland where abortion is now illegal; Keyvan Sarreshteh defends experimental and committed theater in Iran; Jolie Ngemi revives the healing rituals of the Congo that colonization wanted to abolish; accompanied by the South African performer Ntando Cele and the musician Frank Wienk, the German director Julian Hetzel creates a hybrid experience around drinking water coming from sub-Saharan Africa to be imported into Europe as a luxury product. Without forgetting that the Cergy-Pontoise agglomeration is developing international cooperation, notably with Benin and Haiti, which will give rise this year to a conference on vodùn.
Dedicated to Cotonou, the third edition ofAfricapitales offers from March 8 to 31 “hyper-meetings” in Paris to dynamically celebrate the art made in Cotonou: concerts, exhibitions, dance, daring fashion, innovative design, stand-up, engaged theater and inspiring discussions will reflect the creative diversity of the Beninese capital.
Until March 10, the Panorama of cinemas from the Maghreb and the Middle East (PCMMO) in Saint-Denis celebrates its nineteenth edition by magnificently celebrating the vitality of the cinematographies of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran… and diasporas around the world.
“ Decompartmentalizing imaginations, rethinking futures » is the theme of the third edition of the African Book Fair in Paris, from March 15 to 17. And the tribute to Henri Lopes falls within the framework of the guest country: Ivory Coast.
From March 15 to 24, the International Women’s Film Festival opens its doors in Créteil. Among the films in competition awaits us Praia Formosa. Julia De Simone tells the story of Muanza, originally from the Kingdom of Congo, who was a victim of the slave trade to Brazil at the beginning of the 19th century. She wakes up in 2023, wandering the streets of Rio’s rapidly changing port region known as “Pequena Africa.” And Cameroonian screenwriter and director Cyrielle Raingou presents her documentary “The Specter of Boko Haram” around a group of children. And the Senegalese director Awa Moctar Gueye shows us her short film “Timis” around a mysterious man who lives in the Dakar market.
From March 19 to 31, The Spring Zébrures of the Francophonies Festival – from writing to stage, in Limoges, France, highlights ten texts by French-speaking authors. Among the selected texts, there are Wile!an investigative piece by teacher and author Nadale Fidine who questions the social contract in North Cameroon today.
On March 20, the young Ivorian writer Ninamon Fallé receives the Voix d’Afriques literary prize in Yaoundé for his first novel These burning suns. Created by RFI and JC Lattès editions in partnership with the Cité Internationale des arts in Paris, the prize is intended for young authors between 18 and 30 years old writing in French on the African continent. The young 22-year-old author will be honored on the occasion of the International Day of the French Language in the World, at the French Institute of Cameroon, and the same day his novel will be published by JC Lattès.
On March 22, DahomeyMati Diop’s documentary, Golden Bear of the Berlinale 2024, will open the 46th edition of the Cinema of reality in Paris. Until March 31, “the festival reports on contemporary documentary creation, its developments and its experiments through its competition which includes a selection of new, international and French works”.
