The day after World Day for Africa, a large team of musicians, researchers and sportsmen is organizing an online meeting this Thursday. On the program: conferences on sport, education and discrimination as well as concerts.
Two years ago, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, the late Amobé Mévégué created the Worldwide Afro Network (WAN). The journalist and producer of RFI, France 24 and TV5, passed away last September, had one wish: to unite energies, set up multidisciplinary projects to provide opportunities for the continent’s youth.
For those close to him, Amobé had ” always a little crazy projects, but he always went to the end “. WAN is one of those extraordinary adventures. And this year, those who rubbed shoulders with Mr. Mévégué are taking up the torch.
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World champion in heptathlon, long jump, from Sierra Leone, Eunice Barber believes that this project makes it possible to take action: ” I think Amobé left a legacy to really boost the African community and do things too, because it’s not just to bring people together, but we have to learn to do things, to support each other. And the others. And I believe in action “.
” Amobe is life »
Kandy Guira, from Burkina Faso, will offer a virtual concert, like Awadi, Tiken Jah Fakoly, Dobet Gnahoré, reunited because they believe, like the singer from Burkina Faso, that another world is possible: “ It’s like a mission actually. This fight is important for us young people, and also for us as Africans. The values I carry are really in the WAN. For me, we will not build a world alone, we will only build it together. It’s really a value that I carry very strongly “.
As proof, she quotes her album: “Nagtaba”, which means “together”. ” We really can’t do otherwise. That’s the only way we’ll succeed “, she concludes.
Cheikh Tidiane Seck will also bring his voice to this 3rd edition of the WAN. The Malian musician was behind this virtual gathering at the request of Amobé Mévégué. And will continue to support this adventure.
Amobé was like a son to me. And we created together, when there was the Covid, a group that bears my name: CAC 19, in opposition to CAC 40. It was pure Amobé. He said to me: “Dean, you know what, you are going to be at the top of the pyramid”. At the beginning of the first WAN, he spoke to me like that, he came to the house, he was my confidant too. So it’s fair game that I’m here today to testify to the selflessness of this man of culture who was there, without calculation, to try to open up a real horizon for African culture in general. Be yourself and believe in yourself, and be hard at work, that’s the only thing that pays off. After death there is life that never dies, which was there at the beginning. So Amobé is life.
Malian musician Cheick Tidiane Seck pays tribute to Amobé Mévégué
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