Archives mensuelles : août, 2002

Entretien

You have written that a novel tells more about a country than history books. What do your novels tell about Zimbabwe? They tell everything about Zimbabwe, the history, the geography,…

Analyse

Dak’Art 2002, which celebrated the tenth anniversary of an event that has managed to make its mark on the international arts agenda, was much awaited by the art world. It…

Analyse

The Dakar Biennale fringe show presented over a hundred exhibitions this year. A small guide published by the Biennale secretariat helped to grapple with so many exhibitions of such a…

Entretien

Senegalese artist, Ery Camara is a freelance curator in Mexico. The former assistant director of the national museum of anthropology in Mexico currently teaches museography and organises exhibitions and seminars…

Analyse

At the Dak’art 2002 inauguration, chief representative Marie-José Crespin described the Biennale’s mission as being « to promote the creativity of an entire continent, freed of all the folklore that runs…

Reportage/festivals

The leading international Cannes Film Festival helps to gauge the temperature of country or regions’ films. This year black Africa was back at Cannes. What is to be made of…

Analyse

From Angoulême or Nancy to Nice, Montpellier and Sète, 2002 has really fixed African artists as a permanent feature of all the major jazz and « world » music festivals.

Editorial

« There is a pain here searing from West to East, a blood that cries from the earth up to the sky. If I showed it to you, it would blind…

Critique

« Le temps n’est pas un fil droit, il est tissé comme un tapis », dit Chenjerai Hove en parlant de son dernier roman, Ancêtres. De 1850 aux années 1980, les morts…

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