Africanité et Création Contemporaine
Actes de la table ronde » Africanité et création contemporaine « , animée par Sylvie Chalaye, qui s’est tenue à l’université de Rennes 2 / Haute-Bretagne dans le département des Arts du spectacle,…
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Les masques de l’africanité
« Ma couleur n’est pas dépositaire de valeurs essentielles » Frantz FanonLoin d’envisager une quelconque essentialisation africaine, soulever la question de l’africanité dans le domaine de la création, c’est accepter une pluralité…
Editorial
« L’identité africaine n’existe pas en tant que substance. Elle se constitue, dans des formes variées, à travers une série de pratiques ». Achille Mbembe, A propos des écritures africaines de soi,…
Une expérience de qualité
Il faudrait seulement pouvoir être n’importe quoi et n’importe qui.
Identité africaine et mondialisation
Il s’agit moins de subir la mondialisation que de recréer le monde : l’écrivain sénégalais Boubacar Boris Diop en appelle à la résistance des créateurs africains.
« White audiences don’t want to see politically committed theatre anymore »
Actress Vanessa Cooke was one of the Market Theatre’s original founders. In 1989, she became director of The Laboratory. Both a school and a workshop, this structure is dependent on…
The Market Theatre isn’t what it used to be
The Market Theatre opened in June 1976. But if the date is historic, it is for quite a different reason. The 16 June was marked that year by the bloody…
» I hate ballet «
What is the state of dance in South Africa ? There are no structured organisations in any field. It’s not a priority for the government. Back in the days of the…
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« Freedom on paper »
34-year-old Zola Maseko was born and grew up in exile. He studied in Swaziland, in Tanzania, and at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, Great Britain. He was…
Mickey Dube, a « disgusted » filmmaker
Before leaving Los Angeles to return to South Africa, Mickey Dube hoped to make films. Feature films. A few months before returning to Johannesburg, he presented Imbazo (The Axe) at…
White Films About Black People But Only For White People
Four years after Fools, a film by Ramadan Suleiman based on a novel by Njabulo Ndebele, a new South African feature film, Hijack Stories directed by Oliver Schmitz (a White…
« The black community offers the best images »
Alf Kumalo, South Africa’s veteran press photographer, still has an office at The Star newspaper in Johannesburg, even though he does not work there anymore. That is where he is…
From press photography to art photography
A priori, David Goldblatt and Andrew Tshabangu could not be further apart. David Goldblatt, a seventy-year-old white South African, started photography in 1948; the year apartheid was introduced. Andrew Tshabangu,…
« It took me a long time to take possession of myself »
Things began to fall into place for this 40-year-old, mixed-race Cape Town pianist when he came to Johannesburg in 1987. Before that, he used to play hit-songs in hotels along…
« It’s not a question of Africa or America »
Forty-two-year-old Zim Ngqawana studied jazz at the University of Natal before going to the United States to train with the likes of Max Roach and Wynton Marsalis. On his return…
Jazz: new wave
At the time of his tragic death last February, the young jazz pianist Moses Molelekwa was putting the finishing touches to an album recorded with one of the top kwaito…
Mandla Langa, loyal to his political family
At 51 years old, Mandla Langa is now one of the ruling elite. He was formerly the ANC head of culture in London during his period of exile (1976 …
Njabulo Ndebel, a free thinker
Njabulo Ndebele was the first black writer to pleed for « the rediscovery of the ordinary » (title of a critical essay published in 1991). The 53-year-old rector and vice-chancellor of the…
« I see stories everywhere »
Zakes Mda returned from exile in America in 1995. He has since given up teaching African literature to write novels. His latest novel, The Heart of Redness, is due to…
