Tag: Francophonie
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…
François Jost: but what are you “memes” talking about?
You probably know the ” memes ! You know, these animated, transformed, diverted images that flood the web to make us laugh, criticize, denounce, make us think. Some have become…
“At the four corners of the word” with Jérôme Rouger, Valentine Bonomo and Captain Alexandre
Second program at the Cité du mot, with three guests of the “Aux quatre coins du mot” festival, who explore the French language, each in their own way, at Charité-sur-Loire,…
Scrabble, a growing passion on the African continent
Scrabble, with its sometimes aging image in Europe, is a very dynamic sport on the African continent, a breeding ground for high potential. It requires immense capacities of concentration and…
“Elements of language”: the OIF put in bubbles by Bertin Leblanc
In person(s) Bertin Leblanc, a former journalist, was the spokesperson for the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF) at the time of the transfer of power between Michaëlle Jean and…
Hear Aimé Césaire for the National Day of Memories of the Slave Trade and Slavery
First poem by Aimé Césaire, Notebook of a return to the native country recounts the French West Indies before the decline of the colonial empire, in 1939. A text marked…