Tag: Francophonie
Beirut Books: how is the French language evolving in Lebanon?
How does French evolve in Lebanon in an Arabic-speaking environment with strong competition from English? A hard-hitting question as the new Book Fair takes place in Beirut with a hundred…
Beirut Books, a French-speaking literary festival in a country in the midst of a crisis
Writers of 18 mainly French-speaking nationalities will be the guests of Beirut Books, a French-speaking literary festival … A new itinerant literary meeting in the Lebanese capital … a ray…
The author and academician Dany Laferrière as a child
On the occasion of the French Language and Francophonie Week: from Villers-Cotterêts to Abidjan, French, a plural language! (Replay) In The Watching Child, the narrator is a little boy who…
Jean Teulé, Patrice Franceschi, Dany Laferrière, Charlotte Rampling, among others, 4th stage
This season, we take you every week on a report to a region of the French-speaking world to discover a place or a personality. Today, meet the French writer Jean…
The tchiloli, a theater tradition of the settlers of Sao Tomé unmasked
On the African island of São Tomé, on the Equator, three hundred kilometers off the coast of Gabon, the Tchiloli is perpetuated, one of the most original forms of traditional…
Literature: Gérard Prunier, fifty years in the Great Lakes region
Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda: in ten short stories, Gérard Prunier recounts half a century of life in East Africa. Guest: Gerard Prunierformer CNRS researcher, now independent consultant and specialist…
In his novel “Connemara”, Nicolas Mathieu offers a teenage parenthesis to his characters
Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 2018 for Their children after themthe writer Nicolas Mathieu tells us about his new novel, Connemarapublished by Actes Sud. Taking place in the east…
Is classifying ways of speaking classifying people?
Is there a linguistic norm, a good way to speak? Why are certain ways of speaking considered faults? Advertising And how are perceived people who do not express themselves, according…
“The song of the living”: repairing the wounds of exile
Crossing deserts or seas, imprisonment, torture, time in prison… the majority of the exiled people who came suffered from serious psychological trauma. Since 2016, the Limbo association has organized stays…
Music: Bantunani, for a happy and mixed Francophonie
For several years, the Afrofunk artist Bantunani has been working for the Francophonie in his country, the DRC, via the program “la Lettre Française”. His latest album “Cosmogony” mixes several…