With ” Nigerian night », Mélanie Birgelen signs an inspired first novel which plunges the reader into the contemporary realities of an African country like Nigeria. A story about identity, punctuated by the upheavals of a presidential campaign, and rooted in Nigerian society, between Christian traditions, homosexuality and jihadist violence.
Mélanie Birgelent is a journalist, she has been a correspondent in Nigeria for Le Monde, RFI and France Culture. Today in Bangalore, India, she publishes a first novel whose heart beats to the rhythm of rap, pop and afrobeat. From Abuja to Lagos, between lust for life, economic effervescence and creative bubbling. Between hectic presidential campaign, jihadist violence, and Christian tradition, how to be yourself and how to show it when you are homosexual in the age of social networks and dating applications?
” Nigerian night ” of Melanie Birgelen was published by Calmann-Lévy editions.
Report : Juliet Dubois went to a performance of the hip hop play ” To our dead which puts a spotlight on the page of the little-known history of African fighters who died for France. Written by the Alsatian artist Yan Gilg, it has been touring in France and abroad for 15 years already. On the sidelines of the release of the film Skirmishers with Omar Sy, two performances took place in Dakar. The piece was reworked with a Senegalese troupe for the occasion.