African culture

Annual meeting for theater writers, the call for writings will be launched on Monday 28 March. To apply for the 9th edition of the RFI Theater Prize, candidates have five weeks to invent, refine, refine, adjust their text and send it to us before the deadline…

In Chad, women's fashion was in the spotlight on Saturday night, March 26. The first edition of Senafet Fashion Week, a 100% female fashion show (stylist and model), was organized by the National Office for the Promotion of Tourism, Crafts and the Arts (ONPTA)…

The 3rd edition of the Dycoco Festival took place all week in Abidjan. Bappa Oumar and Mister Keke, comedians from Guinea and Gabon, won the "Mon Premier Montreux" competition. They are invited to perform at the famous Swiss comedy festival, Montreux Comedy…

The districts of the Nigerian capital and some regions will be lively from Sunday 27 March all week. For good reason, the 2nd edition of Film Week will be held there and where about forty films will be shown. An initiative by young African directors who want…

Guest Africa…

French-Algerian Walid Hajar Rachedi delivers, with What Should I Do in Paradise ?, a promising first novel. Half autofiction, half "road novel", this book tells the initial search for its central character, engaged on the world's roads that lead him from Paris to London, especially through the Maghreb and Cairo. Double by the author, Malek is at the crossroads of civilizations and wants to be representative of the fortunes and misfortunes…

The finish of the World Water Summit in Dakar. The state of affairs is critical. Not for everybody ...

In South Sudan, we celebrated Francophone Week, which ended with a ceremony on Saturday 19 March at the French Institute in Juba. However, this East African country is not a French-speaking country, English has been its official language since its independence…

In Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, almost a thousand children live on the streets. Mostly aged 8 to 15 years, they are left to themselves for various reasons. Befa Centro, a Central African musician based in Chevilly-Larue in France,…

The famous bassist Richard Bona, a naturalized American for several years, takes a step further in his break with his country of origin, Cameroon. In a video broadcast on March 17 on social networks, we see him destroy his Cameroonian passport and express harsh…