Tag: Africa culture
Samba Peuzzi, Senegalese rap phenomenon, at Africolor
He is the rising star of rap in Senegal. Samba Peuzzi drives the online listening platform counters crazy with its very own sound, which features traditional instruments, such as the…
Baya, happy (re)discovery of an icon of Algerian painting
Where does the genius of this painter come from, who fascinated the art world from the age of 16? Why did Fatma Haddad, known as Baya, born in 1931, manage…
In the poetic belly of the world, with the Haitian Makenzy Orcel (1/2)
Haitian author Makenzy Orcel rose to prominence by publishing his first novel The Immortals in which he pays tribute to the Haitian prostitutes who died during the 2010 earthquake. In…
Pascal Maitre: “There is a risk that the massacres will continue against the Fulani”
Photojournalist Pascal Maitre, a fine connoisseur of Africa and the Sahel, is the winner of the Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière – Académie des beaux-arts prize in 2020. A two-year work…
the Minister of Culture gives her “support” to the artist
In a statement from the Ministry of Culture published this Saturday, November 5, Minister Catherine Kathungu Furaha gave “her support” to singer Fally Ipupa, after the incidents during the artist’s…
Iceland Airwaves Festival: Congolese Alina Amuri in the land of ice
Alina Amuri is the new little prodigy of neo-soul and afrobeat. In just two albums, the young Congolese artist never ceases to cause a sensation, revealing in her songs a…
A wandering in the margins of contemporary France, with Nadia Yala Kisukidi
Franco-Congolese, Nadia Yala Kisukidi is a rising figure in African philosophy. Fascinated by novelistic writing, the philosopher delivers with Dissociation, his first novel published this fall, a very noticeable swerve…
toxicity, theme of the 7th Biennale of Lubumbashi
The seventh Biennale of Lubumbashi, in the south of the DRC, is being held after more than three years of interruption due to the Covid 19 pandemic. Nearly 60 artists…
Beninese artist Sanda Amadou links art, sacredness and ecology
With him, no garish colors, no flashy characters, no spectacular scenes. Sanda Amadou builds in her paintings a surprising void in the middle of a particular “forest”. The 44-year-old Beninese…
Between literature and politics, with the Ivorian Gauz’
In 2014, the Ivorian Gauz’ took the literary world by storm with Standing Paid, a debut novel that reads like a fierce satire of consumer society seen through the eyes…