« Tu me cherches et je te cherche, Mais impossible est la rencontre. Et pourtant, Je n’existe que par toi. » Léopold Congo Mbemba, Déjà le sol est semé, L’Harmattan, 1997, p.…

« 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.…

L’évocation du couple notionnel Masculin / Féminin fait facilement penser exclusivement au féminin, ou aux rapports de genres défavorables aux femmes. Pris isolément, l’un des termes, le premier, ne poserait…

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.

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

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…

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…

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

… or how Bessora shatters the notion of biological determinism!

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

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…

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…