Tag: Culture
Régine Cuzin, curator of the Vives exhibition at Maison Dufort
French curator Régine Cuzin stayed in Haiti from January 4 to 18, 2022, to curate the Vives exhibition at Maison Dufort, in the heart of Port-au-Prince. This exhibition produced by…
The Legendary Alpha Blondy
Interview with one of the biggest reggae stars in the world, Alpha Blondy. From his residence in Bassam, he agrees to engage with an open heart on the most incredible…
Jérôme Fourquet: “The French archipelago, birth of a multiple and divided nation”
Pierre-Édouard Deldique receives in his magazine Idées: Jérôme Fourquet, political analyst, expert in electoral geography, director of the Opinion Department at the IFOP, author of “The French archipelago, birth of…
Rodney Saint-Éloi, an infinite love for Bertha, his Haitian mother
Born in Haiti, Rodney Saint-Éloi lives in Montreal. Poet, novelist, essayist, he is the founder of the publishing house Mémoire d’encrier. Winner of the Charles Biddle Prize, which highlights the…
“Shadow Game”, the “game” of young migrants from Africa and Asia to cross borders
“Do or die!” “Do it or die!” It is an often deadly “game”, played by young minors who have nothing left to lose. Migrants from the “Shadow Game” are fleeing…
The oldest known straws were made of gold and silver and were used to drink beer
The function of precious funerary objects discovered at the end of the 19thand century in Russia has been the subject of much speculation among archaeologists. These long silver and gold…
‘Brazilian singer of the millennium’ Elza Soares dies aged 91
Brazilian singing diva Elza Soares died Thursday at the age of 91 from ” natural causes in his residence in Rio de Janeiro, announced his press service. ” It is…
Exhibition: Julie Manet in the spotlight at the Musée Marmottan Monet
Edouard Manet who caused a scandal with Lunch on the Grass or theOlympia, and Berthe Morizot, the first of the Impressionists, would they have been recognized as immense artists without…
Ladj Ly, Franco-Malian director and screenwriter
From 7:19 a.m. (Paris time), Sophie Torlotin receives Ladj Ly, multi-award-winning Franco-Malian director and screenwriter for his film Wretched, co-founder of Kourtrajmé, a free film school open to diversity in…
JJ Bola, clinging to life in exile
The Congolese writer JJ Bola publishes a very beautiful novel on the difficulties of exile. ” Nowhere to lay your head is available from Mercure de France, in the “Foreign…