The Sahel as far as the eye can see. A city, Zinder. Scars, muscles, rage,… and the rage to live too.
Last June, it was in front of a packed house that the premiere of the movie Zinder took place in Niamey.
After several international screenings the Nigerien director Aïcha Macky was back home to present her latest documentary.
Power, softness, rage, poetry. Sometimes like raging waves against the pier, sometimes in a soothing movement like the low tide, the dancers of La Mer Noire inundated the stage of the Jean Rouch Cultural Center last Friday.
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As part of the Lomé+ exhibition, commissioned by the Togolese architect and anthropologist Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou, the rapper Elom20ce presents the documentary Aux Impossibles Imminents, a series of 6 portraits of inhabitants of the Togolese capital, which illustrate one of the titles of his new album ‘Amewuga’.
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On December 9, the festival Dialogues de Corps will open its doors for a new edition : Nos Solitudes Partagées (Our Shared Lonliness), at the Choreographic Center La Termitière in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In these times of uncertainty and restrictions, the festival is adapting and this edition will have a special resonance with the presentation of mainly solos. An ode to all isolated bodies and a message of resilience and hope.
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Breathtaking images. Intimate testimonials. A bewitching voice. The Call of Dance travels throughout Senegal and showcases dance in all its forms on its territory. Traditional and contemporary. Wrestlers and krumpers. Ceremonies and battles.
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Initiatives see the light of day and then fall a little into oblivion… The Great Green Wall of Africa is one of them. The African Union‘s large-scale project is to plant 8,000 km of greenery, crossing the continent from Dakar to Djibouti. The documentary The Great Green Wall sheds light on this ambitious project that began in 2007.
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