Tag: RFI Theater
Éric Delphin Kwégoué wins the RFI theater prize for his play “À coeur Ouvert”
Éric Delphin Kwégoué, Cameroonian author, wins the RFI theater prize for his play “À coeur Ouvert”. The prize was awarded yesterday in Limoges as part of the Zébrures d’Automne, the…
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…
Start for the 2023 RFI Theater Prize
Annual meeting for authors of theater, the call for writings is launched this Monday, March 20. To apply for the 10th edition of the RFI Theater Prize, candidates have five…
[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…