The second edition of Ségou’Art was held from 02 to 09 February in Mali. This exhibition aimed to allow gallery owners, collectors and art professionals to discover the new faces of contemporary African creation. For the 2019 edition, Abdoulaye Konaté from Mali was the key figure and guest. Ségou Art...
Ségou ‘Art is the Biennial of Contemporary Art of Mali, held in Segou, Mali. It brings together gallery owners, collectors and art lovers, art critics around the works of emerging young talents from Africa and elsewhere, not only to make them known, but also to engage in a reflection on...
Jahman Oladejo Anikulapo is a Nigerian cultural journalist and activist. He has been trained as an actor, dancer,director of theater and specializations in dramatic theory and literary criticism. Since 1987, he has written numerous articles on the arts, culture and media for the Guardian (member of the permanent team) and...
Bintou Sidibé known as Bébé is a cultural operator and manager of artists and a member of the Abidjan Market for Performing Arts (MASA) with Malian artists. She is busy preparing for the next edition of the MASA scheduled for 2020 in Abidjan. She is fighting so that the maximum...
In thirty years, Christophe Galent has worked in various places of the arts of the scene in France: Municipal Theater, Center of creation, National Scene. He was the Secretary General of the Volcano, one of the great French cultural places, and the mission manager at the festival of Avignon. He...
Acrobatics, contortion, dance, live music: the Mandingo Circus of Guinea has everything planned to delight the public of the Cabaret Sauvage, in Paris 19th, from December 26 to January 5, 2019. They will present for the end of the 2018 holiday season a new show, « Tana Mou Ri? « . This...
Before taking up his position as Director of Africalia, Frédéric Jacquemin was Expert in Cultural Policies at the Secretariat of the Africa-Caribbean-Pacific Group of States. In this context, he coordinated the ACP Cultural Observatory where he conducted studies on the creative industries and cultural policies of the ACP countries from...
Armand Biyag, Cameroonian music artist with multi-faceted talent. He plays with the same dexterity of piano, balafon and percussion without forgetting his voice, signature of his originality. He spoke about the opportunities offered following his participation in MASA. MASA had a good impact on my career MASA 2016 The artist...
Adama Traoré is a Malian author, director, comedian and playwright, born in February 1962 in Sikasso. Graduate of the National Institute of Arts (INA) of Bamako, in 1986, he was a professor of drama from 1989 to 1999, he is the founder of the company Acte SEPT (Awareness, Education, Promotion,...
Yusuf Mahmoud is the director of Sauti za Busara festival in Zanzibar. He has directed various world music festivals, concerts and seminars to raise awareness and promote solidarity in Africa. He relocated from the UK, his home country, to Zanzibar in 1998 and five years later set up Busara Promotions,...
The MASA is a cultural platform for promoting African Performing Arts. Its main objectives are : To Support creativity and good quality productions, To facilitate the movement of artists and their works within Africa and throughout the world, To train artists and key professionals in the production field, To promote African Performing Arts.