With eleven cultural contests for nine sports competitions, the Francophonie Games, which are being held until next Sunday in Kinshasa, constitute an important cultural meeting and a springboard for young artists.
Kinshasa is since Saturday and for eight days still the largest African cultural scene. Visual artists, painters, choreographers, dancers, writers, they roam the galleries of the National Museum for the first exhibitions and openings of works in competition.
” I am Kouamé Wilfried, an Ivorian painter. I am a native of Bouaké. The fact for me to participate in an event of such magnitude is already good. In my background, I would say this is the pinnacle. For now ! »
” My name is Omar Sène, I am a dancer choreographer. I accompany a Senegalese dancer, I supervise him. I think these Games are a great meeting that helps to unite a lot of people, and as artists, we actually need that. Because it gives us material to move forward. »
” My name is Konfé Ibrahim Jacob, and I am from the Burkina Faso digital creation team. We have in our team “threeDists”, motion-designers, and also a sound engineer “beat maker”. Me, I have my creation studio, but the others are students and professionals in their field, and together, we have formed a team to come and compete. »
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In the literary jury, the Belgian-Tunisian publisher, Elisabeth Daldoul, founder of the Elizyad house, is delighted to discover the twenty texts in the running for the prize for the best short story: ” There is a kind of confrontation of words that upsets the French language wherever you come from. »
As for the Lebanese novelist Hyam Yared, she recalls that in Africa perhaps more than anywhere else, ” art will save the world in the words of the Russian writer Fedor Dostoyevsky: There is an alternative imaginary to power that allows people to seek their identity in their guts. Since they are prevented from accessing a functional collective identity. So to work on a certain form of perseverance when everything around is dysfunctional. And, from there, find meaning in your life. »
With eleven cultural competitions, young artists from the French-speaking world are shaping the trends of tomorrow. Under the eyes of producers, promoters or even exhibition curators who have come to witness the emergence of a new generation.
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