Tag: Africa culture
The art market reaches a world record in 2021, boosted by contemporary and NFT
New world record for art: in 2021, auction sales reached $17 billion. According to Artprice’s annual report published on Monday March 14, this increase is notably boosted by contemporary art…
Francophonie week: which French language today in Côte d’Ivoire?
On the occasion of the Week of the French language and the Francophonie: from Villers-Cotterêts to Abidjan, French, a plural language! While French remains the official language in Côte d’Ivoire,…
In the heat and dust of black London, with Bernardine Evaristo
Winner of the Booker Prize 2019 with his masterful girl, woman, other, Bernardine Evaristo dominates British literature with her delightfully subversive writing. The publication in French translation of Mr Lovermanone…
African documentaries in the spotlight at the Cinéma du réel festival
In a city that we guess is African, a man from behind on a scooter, a variegated red, black, green, white jacket, holds out his left arm, in a sign…
Rafiki Fariala and Central African youth
Video 01:35 ” It’s not the old people who are going to change the country. At the International Documentary Film Festival in Paris (March 11-20), Central African director Rafiki Fariala,…
Africa in the spotlight at the “Cinéma du réel” festival at the Center Pompidou
Cultural meeting From March 11 to 20, 2022, at the Center Pompidou in Paris, the “Cinéma du réel” festival, the biggest event in France devoted to documentaries, is making a…
Felwine Sarr – You will tell me about it
Fellwine Sarr, recognized as one of the African intellectuals who counts the most on the international scene, he published a learning novel: “The places where my dreams live”, published by…
MASA Festival in Abidjan: what place for storytelling and oral tradition
Amadou Hampâté BAH, Malian author born in 1901 in Bandiagara in Mali and died in 1991 used to say that “in Africa when an old man dies, it’s a library…
MASA Festival in Ivory Coast: storytelling, theater and puppets
For this third program recorded on the occasion of the twelfth edition of MASA (Abidjan Market for Performing Arts), theater is honored with four artists whose plays deal with very…
The photographer Samuel Fosso in a word, a gesture and a silence
The self-portrait virtuoso was born in 1962 in Cameroon and grew up without a photo of himself. Torn between his identities and his multiple homelands – Cameroon, Central African Republic,…