Tag: Africa culture
Mauritania special week – Episode 5 remembering Nouakchott in 2009
In the first part of the show, musical programming with artists who are in the news today. In the second part, a look back at the first time that Couleurs…
Voodoo cultures at the heart of the Biennale of Ouidah in Benin
The Biennale of Ouidah dedicated to Voodoo arts and cultures is an event at the crossroads of contemporary artistic creations and scientific research. Ritual ceremonies, documentary screenings, concerts and scientific…
Chad: discovering kadamoul
The kadamoul, or chèche/turban in French, has been worn for generations by men living in a desert environment. Abandoned by the new generation, the traditional kadamoul has been brought up…
Khayakazi Madlala, new South African lyrical voice
In South Africa, if lyrical art and opera have long been, under apartheid, the prerogative of white singers, things have changed with the end of the segregationist regime and black…
“Bloodline Maintenance”, a homecoming for Ben Harper
Ben Harper is back. The American singer and guitarist has just released a 17ᵉ studio album: Bloodline Maintenance. An album imbued with the soul of Marvin Gaye, in which the…
The author and academician Dany Laferrière as a child
On the occasion of the French Language and Francophonie Week: from Villers-Cotterêts to Abidjan, French, a plural language! (Replay) In The Watching Child, the narrator is a little boy who…
One land, one author: in Nigeria with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a writer from Abba, southeastern Nigeria, has lived in the United States for more than twenty years. She is the author of several novels: Purple Hibiscus (2003)…
In Togo, dancing on stilts, a voodoo tradition
In Togo, they are still nearly 500 to practice dancing on stilts. A practice stemming from traditional voodoo rites which has become a real job for some. Troupes have been…
Dieudonné Niangouna in a word, a gesture and a silence
Dieudonné Niangouna, 46, born in Brazzaville, was in 2007 the first author and director from sub-Saharan Africa invited to the Festival IN d’Avignon. In 2013, he was the first artist…
In the gears of colonial conquest in Madagascar, with Michèle Rakotoson
In his new novel Ambatomanga, the Malagasy novelist Michèle Rakotoson recounts the colonial conquest of her country in the 19th century, revisiting through fiction the brutalities and devastation from which…