Tag: Africa culture
“Fela, afrobeat rebellion”: portrait of an activist musician at the Cité de la Musique
The exhibition is an event: it is the first in Europe entirely devoted to the Nigerian Fela Kuti. Fela Anikulapo Kuti, afrobeat rebellion, which opens to the public this Thursday…
In the quicksand of memory, with Mozambican Mia Couto (2/2)
It is in the city of Beira, on the coast of Mozambique, that the action of the new novel by Mia Couto, the leading writer of her country, takes place.…
Heritage Days: exceptional opening of the Senghor house in Verson
Heritage Days are traditionally an opportunity to visit places rarely open to the public. This is the case of the Senghor house in Verson in Normandy where the former Senegalese…
The Nyege Nyege festival returns after a three-year hiatus
In Uganda, the Nyege Nyege festival (“ the uncontrollable urge to dance ” in Luganda) is back from this Thursday, and until Sunday, September 18, after two editions interrupted by…
The highlife recipe of the Ghanaian combo Santrofi
Since the Rio Loco festival, a highlife music lesson with Emmanuel Ofori, bassist and leader of the group Santrofi, a Ghanaian combo made up of eight outstanding musicians, determined to…
Cinema: “Honorary citizen” by Mohamed Hamidi, “a stirring homecoming”
Samir Amin won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He refuses all honors, except that of his small town of origin, in Algeria, a country he left more than 30 years…
The African Marseille of Claude McKay
Intrigue in the world of publishing, we found the microfilm of a novel by Claude McKay, writer of the Harlem Renaissance movement and author of Banjo. The text will eventually…
Revisiting the darkness of colonial Mozambique, with Portuguese-speaking Mia Couto (1/2)
A great name in contemporary African Portuguese letters, Mia Couto writes for ” teach readers to dream “. Journalist, poet, novelist, columnist, storyteller, he is the author of a sumptuous…
Gèlèdès masks from Benin unite art and spirit
The largest international exhibition of traditional arts from Africa (also bringing together the largest galleries in the world concerning art from Asia, Oceania and the Americas) is being held until…
2022 literary season: Africa-Caribbean-Black America (1)
Less rich than in previous years, this year’s literary season offers 490 new titles, including 345 French novels for 135 foreigners. The black world occupies a privileged place in this…