Black African film has long since surpassed the boundaries between male and female. Recently, however, it has done so in a very new way.

Homosexuality in Africa? « It doesn’t exist », was the answer that Laurent Bocahut and Philip Brooks got when they started researching their documentary on the subject. Nevertheless, two years later, the…

In Woubi chéri, a documentary by Laurent Bocahut and Philip Brooks, the Ivoirian transvestite, Barbara, introduces us to the terms « woubi » (« he who acts like a woman »), and « yossi » (« he…

The balance of power within relationships is becoming much less related to gender, a fact which some people find disconcerting.

… or how Bessora shatters the notion of biological determinism!

The need for dialogue in the light of the evolution of the couple in the African town.

The Guadeloupian oblate – a nun who has not taken her vows – Célanire, comes back from afar when she leaves her Lyons convent to go to Grand Bassam in…

Guadeloupian Maryse Condé, who lives in the United States and teaches at the University of Columbia, has recently published a new novel, Célanire cou-coupé (Robert Laffont). This fantastical work is…

Surpassing the clichés surrounding the great Somalian writer’s vision of women, Abdourahman A. Waberi, the writer from Djibouti, sets the records straight.

The specificity of women’s writing? In the face of modernity, the male/female distinction is being replaced by a less reductive vision which attempts to articulate belonging and the universal.

« You seek me and I seek you, But the meeting is impossible. And yet, I only exist through you. » LŽopold Congo Mbemba DŽjˆ le sol est semŽ (L’Harmattan, 1997, p.…