Crowned by the Revolution jury of the Cinemamed festival and already awarded at the Fiff in Namur, Erige Sehiri’s film hits theaters today. Over the course of an ordinary day, he explores the hopes of young people in Tunisia. Country he represents in the race for the Oscars. The countryside is still asleep under the … Read more
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr : Goncourt Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Prix Goncourt 2021, in Paris, at his publisher. © Bruno Lévy for JA With The most secret memory of menthe young Senegalese became the first author from sub-Saharan Africa to win the prestigious Goncourt Prize. A book in which, over nearly 450 pages, the hero, Diégane, goes … Read more
The awarding of the Goncourt prize to The most secret memory of men, by the Senegalese writer Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, was rightly hailed by almost everyone. According to the award-winning author, “it’s a strong signal […], a way, too, to show that France is sometimes much larger and much more noble – in any case … Read more
Kad Merad, Nobel Prize Kad Merad and Fatsah Bouyahmed in “Honorary Citizen” by Mohamed Hamidi © APOLLO FILMS The Franco-Algerian Samir Amin, who has just received the Nobel Prize for Literature, is invited by his hometown, Sidi Mimoun, to be named honorary citizen. Depressed, unable to start writing a new novel, far from Algeria since … Read more
il y a 7 heures Crédit photo, PA Media Légende image, Salman Rushdie, devant la chapelle du King’s College à Cambridge en 1993. Le romancier d’origine indienne Sir Salman Rushdie, qui a été poignardé alors qu’il était sur scène à New York, a reçu des menaces de mort en raison de son travail au cours … Read more
Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter il y a 43 minutes Crédit photo, Reuters Légende image, Aucun des films mettant en vedette les nominées pour la meilleure actrice, y compris Kristen Stewart, n’est en lice pour le meilleur film. Hollywood a connu une année d’enfer. Spider-Man a sauvé le box-office, Scarlett Johansson a poursuivi Disney en justice, … Read more
Along the road, pass green savannahs, dense forests criss-crossed by rivers, trees bursting with fruit or speckled with multicolored flowers. The fertile region of Lobaye, at the gates of the Central African capital Bangui, looks like a Garden of Eden. Civil wars and abuses by numerous armed groups over the past 20 years have relatively … Read more
From January 1 to February 27, the Forum des Images de Paris presents a selection of 126 African films of all genres. A selection that should then circulate on the continent, starting with Burkina Faso. Just reading this title Tigritudes, allows us to understand that this vast anthology offered by the Forum des Images is … Read more
In 2021, Senegalese Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah and South African Damon Galgut received prestigious literary awards. Deserved consecrations, but which meet the expectations of Western critics. The award of the Goncourt prize to The most secret memory of men, by the Senegalese writer Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, has been, rightly, greeted by everyone, or … Read more
In his new novel, “La Porte du voyage sans retour”, the Senegalese author living in Pau recounts the French botanist Michel Adanson’s trip to Senegal in the 1750s. After Soul brother, Goncourt Prize for high school students in 2018 and Booker Prize International in 2021, David Diop publishes at Editions du Seuil The Gate of … Read more