Tag: Francophonie
Francophone book meetings in Kigali: writing as reparation
Yolande Mukagasana and Dorcy Rugamba lost their families during the Genocide perpetrated against the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Writing to testify and survive has since become essential for the…
Kossi Efoui, ordinary magic
Kossi Efoui was born in 1962 in Togo. His participation in the student movement of the 1980s, harshly repressed by the regime of General Eyadéma, led him to prison and…
Juliette en chansons: whimsical, esthete and without regret
” You can’t define the song. The song is plural, it makes you dance, laugh, cry, think… » Figure of the French song for more than 30 years, with 15…
Chrysoula Zacharopoulou: “La Francophonie is not just words, we live it”
/ Podcasts / morning guest Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, Secretary of State to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, in charge of Development, Francophonie and International Partnerships, is RFI’s morning guest…
Nadia Chonville, to get out of the silences
“This novel is the story of anger, but it’s also the story of silence, how our silences create violence and anger”. My heart is beating fast is a novel in…
At the source of writing with Marie-Hélène Lafon
/ Podcasts / In person(s) ” The source, it flows, it’s open, it’s fluid, it’s inexhaustible, it doesn’t sink into opaque and definitively unexplored zones. The older I get, the…
The songs of memory with David Lescot
/ Podcasts / In person(s) ” As soon as I look back to childhood, it puts me in very strong emotional states, it’s an engine that I need in life,…
Saying Mali with Jean-Paul Colleyn
/ Podcasts / In person(s) ” They are said to be the rustle of the village. » This anthology, produced with Migoro Sanogo, brings together around fifty stories, rumours, hearsay,…
Alima Hamel sings of exile – In person (s) voice
” I want to sing. Music keeps me alive. I sing Souad and Camélia. I sing Feriel. I sing Dhour. » Medea Mountains is the narration of exiles, that of…
De Gaulle, Joan of Arc or François I: how to reconstruct the great voices of the past?
/ Podcasts / In person(s) Thanks to artificial intelligence, journalists from Le Monde and IRCAM researchers reconstructed General de Gaulle’s June 18 speech, of which no recording existed. How do…