Tag: Culture
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…
A soldier photographer during the Great War in Amiens
A history professor unearthed more than 400 photos taken by a French officer in 1915 in Amiens. These pictures are an exceptional testimony to what life was like behind the…
“Gerswhin-Tsfasman”, Franco-Russian piano duo in concert at Salle Gaveau
Cultural meeting It is a strong symbol launched by a Franco-Russian couple, one of the greatest piano duos in the world. Ludmila Berlinskaya and Arthur Ancelle celebrate their 10 years…
Jukka Jalonen, who coached in Russia, talks about the country’s climate of fear and the culture of silence: “Even smart people are quiet”
Jukka Jalonen, who coached the SKA and Jokers in St. Petersburg in the Russian KHL series, got to know Russian culture over the years. According to Jalonen, it is very…
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…
Elizabeth Holleville: being a teenager and green, a monster challenge!
In his latest comic “Immondes! “, Elizabeth Holleville makes “horrifying” and “ecological” rhyme in this graphic novel all in green and purple! His previous album, Ghost Summer told of a…
“See you tomorrow my love”, the Pinçon-Charlot, from sociology to combat
” We are us because of us “, explains Michel Pinçon-Charlot in the documentary by Basile Carré-Agostini. In their romantic and intellectual journey, Michel and Monique are inseparable, like two…
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,…
Elections will not take place
In a very, very democratic republic, there is a large boulevard, well lit, which crosses the whole country and takes you to a single destination, the presidential election. All politicians…
Congolese fables with Alpha Ramazani
In Kinshasa, a young author brings up to date the art of the fable: from his imaginary universe, populated by animals of all kinds, emerges a very human reality, life…