Tag: African
South African cellist Abel Selaocoe fuses classical and African music
/ Podcasts / Cultural meeting Unclassifiable cellist, Abel Selaocoe plays with codes to better reconcile the worlds. This South African prodigy from a township near Johannesburg navigates brilliantly between Western…
In Paris, the hardship of African students who fled Ukraine
They are nearly 400 from Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Congo, Nigeria to have fled the war in Ukraine and have been able to find shelter in Europe, and in particular in…
The South African government takes over half of the debt of the electricity company Eskom
In South Africa, the Minister of Finance presented his budget for 2023 to parliamentarians gathered in Cape Town on Wednesday. And faced with an unprecedented electricity crisis, the South African…
“Les Verrières”, a unique new place dedicated to African art in Paris
/ Podcasts / Cultural meeting A new place on the map of the arts of Africa and the diaspora. The 31 Project gallery opened a new space a few days…
the twelve South African cheetahs have started their quarantine
The twelve cheetahs who left South Africa last Friday February 17 have arrived in India, and have begun their quarantine in a park in the center of the country. They…
African Union plans ‘national reconciliation conference’ in Libya
Libya was on the agenda of the 36th African Union summit, which ended on Sunday evening February 19. The country has been plunged for more than 10 years into a…
The 1st African Book Festival of Marrakech, all fire, all flame
Flam: four initials to designate the African Book Festival in Marrakech which took place a few days ago. For the first time, some fifty writers and artists from the Maghreb…
“T’zée”, when African tragedy and Greek theater meet
Recounting the fall of an African dictator in the style of Greek theater is the ambition of a comic strip entitled T’zée, an African tragedy, published by Dargaud. The authors,…
Burkinabè Salam Zampaligré’s tribute to African cinema
The taxi, the cinema and me by Burkinabe director Salam Zampaligré received the documentary film prize at the 12th African Film Festival in Luxor, Egypt last week. This film will…
In some African countries, excisions have increased by 30% due to climate change
News Published on 02/11/2023 at 2:07 p.m. Updated 02/11/2023 at 2:07 p.m. Reading 3 mins. In the countries of the Horn of Africa, excisions of which young girls are victims…