Culture Africa

The future National Assembly in Benin was represented by Burkinabè architect Francis Kéré. Based in Germany, he is known for his use of local materials. Impeccable white shirt, portable in hand, FrancisKér saves the site of the future National Assembly, an 8-hectare site in the center of Porto-Novo, the Benin capital, occupied…

"We find the atmosphere at the festival again. We live again." Annecy is proudly portrayed as "the first major international cultural event to welcome the public" (without a health pass) in postpartum France. From 14 to 19 June, the world animated film capital will present more than 200 short and feature films on site, "an exceptional vintage" and "the best of African animation" in the form of a tribute. Interview with Mickaël Marin, Director of the Festival, Film Market and Cité de l'image en mouvement in Annecy (Citia).…

How do I spot the warning signs before a society collapses and the jihadists give law and terror? Senegalese director Mamadou Dia did not wait for the deadliest attack that Burkina Faso has known since the beginning of jihadist violence in 2015 to talk about the subject. How can a family, a city, an entire society fall into the trap of jihadism? "The Father of Nafi", a first masterful film, was…

"The power of my hands" brings together 16 artists, only women and only from Portuguese-speaking or English-speaking countries, which are almost never shown in France. An original exhibition in more ways than one at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Painting, embroidery, photography or ceramics, neither evoke everyday life or the woman's history, intimate or more political issues. Odile Burluraux is one of the exhibitors' curators. “One of the goals of the exhibition is also to bring out what has been hidden,…

La Sape, the company of atmospheres and elegant people, was developed in the 1970s between the two Congos. Séverin Mouyengo witnessed this before becoming one of its greatest protagonists. With pedagogy, vitality and humor, he retracts the long journey that remained almost immobile for a long time between Pointe-Noire and Brazza.…

Sculptures, paintings, photographs have been on display along the wall of the former National Assembly on Independence Avenue in Ouagadougou since Tuesday, June 1. An outdoor art market to attract the public. .

Where will the most important meetings in African culture take place in June in digital form or face to face? Here are 21 suggestions. Do not hesitate to send us your "essentials" to fipageculture@yahoo.fr. From 1 to 6 June, the second edition of Wekré, the market for contemporary art in Ouagadougou, will be held under the theme Cross-country skiing. Among the…

If African fashion is currently having great success around the world, Pathé'O and all the young African designers they have supported in recent years point out that the road to this success has not always been easy. From our correspondent in Abidjan,Hidden in one of hundreds of alleys in the working-class district of…

In Lagos, Elizabeth Elohor is the head of the continent's largest model agency. In recent years, the big names in fashion and international agencies have turned to her to recruit African models, more and more in demand in the fashion world. From our correspondent in Lagos,About fifteen young girls who are barely young are…

Benine's artist Roméo Mivekannin presents his first exhibition in Senegal till June 5 on the Cécile Fakhoury Gallery in Dakar. An exhibition known as Hosties blacks which is linked to the determine of Senegalese paragliders, which truly comes from a number of African international locations. Her works are impressed by paperwork from colonial archives - postcards depicting the wives of skirmishers in…