Tag: It’s okay
“It’s okay, it’s okay, world!” Africa and Haiti are invited to the Avignon Festival
From July 16 to 21, at 11 a.m. (Paris time), festival-goers and Internet users are invited to listen to a text by an African or Haitian author every morning. Under…
Eric Delphin-Kwegoué (Cameroon): “LeZ-Zanimal” – It’s okay, everyone
A homecoming architect with grand plans, a money-obsessed billionaire, a witchy naturopath, and ambitious kids. A fable about the harshness of contemporary life, greed and wild dreams of a new…
Pierrette Mondako (Congo-Brazzaville): “A moment of brilliance”
A new wind is blowing in city B, like a burst of joy… Part of the population, after a devastating disaster, was compensated to the tune of several million CFA…
Djo Ngeleka (Democratic Republic of Congo): “The Lake”
It’s morning, it looks like six o’clock, a crowd is claiming that a body has fallen into a lake, or what everyone has decided to call “lake” because there is…
[En intégral] Dieudonné Niangouna (Democratic Republic of Congo): “Ghost”
Three brothers and sisters, accompanied by their nephew, meet to sell the house of a father they never knew. But an old man, come to shelter from the rain, will…
[En intégral] Laura Sheïlla Inangoma (Burundi): “Memory trial”
A trial. Three women are accused of murder and practicing “barbaric rites” but for lack of bodies, judges, lawyers and witnesses are fighting over what makes tradition and modernity in…
[En intégral] Koulsy Lamko (Chad): “That of the islands”
“Celile” or “Celle des îles”, a storyteller and cabaret singer responds to a funny casting to brighten up the evenings of “well-thinking and well-sleeping customers” at the restaurant “Le petit…
[En intégral] Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (Senegal): “Enclosed Land”
Written in 2015 by the man who will become the first writer from sub-Saharan Africa to win the Goncourt Prize, this novel takes place in Kalep, a town in Sumal…
[En intégral] Nathalie Hounvo Yekpe (Benin): “Race to the wedding”
It is the story of three sisters with linked destinies but only one of them succeeded. Madila is married to a rich man. Her children go to French school. Everything…
[En intégral] Jean D’Amérique (Haiti): “Opera Dust”
Forgotten by history, Sanite Bélair (1781-1802) returns from the dead to haunt us. A sergeant, then a lieutenant in the Haitian revolutionary army, she was captured by French settlers and…