Tag: Culture Africa
“A new Morocco”, Asmae El Moudir on “The Mother of all lies”
With just one small photo at the start, Asmae El Mudir managed to restore and tell a hidden history of Morocco, the “bread riots” in Casablanca, bloodily repressed in June…
Mexican-Kenyan Lupita Nyong’o, first black president of the jury of the Berlin film festival
The 2024 edition of the Berlinale opens this Thursday, February 15 in the evening in the German capital. It promises to be agitated and the Mexican-Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o will…
Death of Beninese intellectual Stanislas Spero Adotevi
Benin still loses and mourns one of its intellectuals, Professor Stanislas Spero Adotevi. Writer, philosopher, former Minister of Culture and Information, he died this Wednesday, February 7 in Ouagadougou, Burkina…
Homosexuality in Egypt and the drama of taboo in “Better than Earth” at the 2024 Clermont-Ferrand Festival
“ My film is mainly about uncertainty », Says Sherif El Bendary. The Egyptian director is a regular at the largest international short film festival in Clermont-Ferrand. This year, he…
In Madagascar, young people do slam to talk about politics and subjects that affect them
The French Institute of Madagascar hosted a workshop on February 3, 2024 in Antananarivo organized by “Madagaslam”, an association which brings together the slam scene on a national scale. The…
Urban Gospel: increasingly compliant artists?
Gospel, a musical genre that emerged from the religious songs of African-American slaves in the southern United States, experienced a rise in power in the 1950s and 1960s, thanks to…
Rappers Xuman and Keyti denounce TotalEnergies’ sponsorship of the CAN
Dalinie Mvemba, family member of Tropical Colors, is alongside Claudy Siar.Phoner: Gentil Jab, from Goma, calls on the Congolese authorities on the degrading situation of young children displaced in the…
Medhy Custos in concert at New Morning, in Paris, February 6
Divine Bertout and Stéphane Linon, members of the Famille de Couleurs Tropicales, offer a song and address a current subject. Guests: Medhy Custos, Guadeloupean singer. He will be in concert…
next meeting of the Franco-Algerian commission of historians
This is RFI information. Two months after a first meeting in Algeria, the Franco-Algerian commission of historians will meet next Thursday in Paris. At the end of this meeting, the…
Story of a quest for emancipation, from the pen of the Tanzanian Adam Shafi Adam
Political awareness and self-knowledge are the two main themes of the Indocile, a novel in Swahili which has just been translated into French. Its author Adam Shafi Adam, originally from…