The Golden Ball
The “turbo”: this is how it is called in Makono, a small village made up of huts, lost in the middle of the forest located southwest of Nafadji and west of Finabala in Guinea. Badian, only 12 years old and less than 1.50m tall, is a young boy passionate about football who spends most of […]
Lucky Dube, an indelible mark on the world of reggae
One Love, One Heart, Let’s get together & feel alright. These few words, recognizable among many others from Bob Marley’s famous song “One Love” have found refuge in the hearts of millions of people around the world, including a young man called Lucky, a music lover and follower of the precepts of life of the […]
Marcus Garvey, for the love of the black cause
It was in Saint Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, on August 17, 1887, that Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born. Having grown up in a city plagued by oppression and where racial segregation reigns, Marcus Garvey discovers with amazement the disastrous living conditions in which blacks live in his country. His youth marked by a very religious life, […]
In the name of Christ, a look back at a classic of African cinema
Work of the Ivorian director Roger Gnoan M’Bala, who passed through the French cinema conservatory from 1966-1968, it was in 1993 that Au nom du Christ was released, a fiction that satirizes irrational beliefs close to sectism and its harmful consequences. on a post-independence African society which is still in a frantic quest for religious […]
From the streets to the largest exhibition workshops in the world, Aboudia tells his story in his painting
Whether in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, in Queens in New York or in Abidjan in Ivory Coast, graffiti on the walls in the streets remains a means for young people from the working class to express themselves and to let the world know they exist; that they also deserve some attention. Aboudia […]
The Black Child – A Classic of African Literature
Published in Paris in 1953, “The Black Child” is an autobiographical work that traces the story of its author Camara Laye, from his early childhood in his peaceful village of Kouroussa, located in Upper Guinea until his departure for France. As a child, Laye discovers with dazzling Africa as we rarely know it today, […]
Interview – Elodie Sè
1- Hello Elodie, thank you for having us. How about we start with the introductions? Good morning ! My name is Sè Elodie, known as Eloniniie, which is my name as a writer. I have a Masters in Financial Engineering, and I am passionate about writing. I wrote a book called “ELLES…”, in electronic version, […]
African photography: history and future of a practice in a society with a rich cultural heritage
Photography was invented on August 19, 1839, during an official session at the Institut de France by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851), a Parisian theater designer, who divulged the first photographic process he managed to develop it by taking advantage of the research of his partner, Nicéphore Niépce. Nicknamed “daguerreotype”, this process consisted of fixing the positive […]