Somalia
Récréâtrales, a courtyard festival
The eleventh edition of the Les Récréâtrales Festival ends this Saturday, October 31, in the capital of Burkina Faso. A…
Culture Africa
World
Hussein Bakri, the “humanistic” architect of Akon City
Hussein Bakri is the Lebanese architect responsible for the design of the Akon City project in Senegal. We met him…
Central-Africa
The American Autobiography of Alain Mabanckou – Writing Paths
Author of a corpus of thirty books in which fiction co-exists with poetry and essays, the Congolese Alain Mabanckou is…
West-Africa
Senegal wants to register “thiébou dieune” with Unesco
Senegal is requesting the inclusion of the national dish, thiébou dieune (“rice with fish” in Wolof), in the intangible cultural…
East-Africa
Mauritian Ananda Devi tells the women’s millennium “Fardo”
The new book from the pen by Mauritian novelist Ananda Devi is not a novel, but an original written exercise…
Central-Africa
DRC: culture for preserving memory
In the city of Kisangani, cultural actors keep alive the memory of the violence that destroyed the city and killed…
West-Africa
British-Ghanaian architect David Adjaye, winner of the RIBA Gold Medal
David Adjaye is the recipient of the Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 2021. British-Ghanaian,…
West-Africa
Independence special: Joni Haastrup, soul prince in Nigeria
This October 1, 2020 marks the 60th anniversary of Nigeria’s independence. As on every anniversary date, RFI makes you relive…
West-Africa
RFI Theater Award in 2020 awarded to Guinea’s Souleymane Bah for “La Cargaison”
“I got to break and get into theater writers.” Author and director Souleymane Bah, 46, will receive the RFI Theater…
