He plays a Bandian in Cheik Doukouré’s Le Ballon d’or (Guinea)
Aboubacar Sidiki Soumah talks about how lucky he was to have a role in Le Ballon d’or and how acting in a film changes things for young people.
Aboubacar Sidiki Soumah talks about how lucky he was to have a role in Le Ballon d’or and how acting in a film changes things for young people.
What were the positive or problematic aspects of producing this film? Danielle Ryan: Cheick Doubkouré’s work was an asset, with his filmography in addition to Bako, which made him…
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,…
The issue of transmission has been much pondered in the world of African contemporary dance.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
« 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…
Aboubacar Sidiki Soumah revient sur sa chance d’avoir pu tourner « Le Ballon d’or » et ce que cela change pour un jeune d’être acteur dans un film.
Les 11, 12 et 13 juillet 2002 s’est tenue la 4e édition du festival Musiques sur l’île de Nantes. Trois jours animés par Lulendo, la création Manu Dibango / Ray…
Quelles ont été vos chances et difficultés dans la production de ce film ? Danielle Ryan : Le travail de Cheick Doukouré était un atout, avec sa filmographie : en…
Les petits-fils nègres de Vercingétorix, dernier roman d’Alain Mabanckou évoque, dans une langue lyrique un amour fort entre une femme du Nord et un homme du Sud dans un contexte…
Receuil d’articles, Palaver Finish, le dernier livre de l’écrivain zimbabwéen, met à nu le pouvoir de Robert Mugabe.
« 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…
Romancier et essayiste zimbabwéen, grand admirateur de l’art du conte, Chenjerai Hove est réfugié depuis novembre 2001 en France.
Initiée par le chorégraphe béninois Koffi Koko, la première édition du festival « Atout African » a eu lieu à Ouidah, en janvier 2002.
Pour la danse contemporaine africaine, la question de la transmission fait l’objet d’une riche réflexion.