by Jean-Pierre Bekolo | Oct 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
In today’s world, we are inundated with illness—not only physical disease like COVID-19, but also social and political maladies. The rise of extreme-right movements, escalating violence, and human suffering highlight our global sickness. For so long, art,...
by Jean-Pierre Bekolo | Sep 14, 2024 | Interviews
Le réalisateur camerounais Thierry Ntamack annonce pour bientôt la sortie officielle de son prochain film Walaande. Une adaptation du roman éponyme de l’écrivaine camerounaise Djaïli Amadou Amal. Le long métrage fiction est le produit du programme Scripto...
by Jean-Pierre Bekolo | Sep 14, 2024 | Articles
In discovering Candomblé, the Afro-Brazilian religion born from slavery, I began to reflect on Africa’s current spirituality. Afro-Brazilians teach us a crucial lesson: when Africans face dehumanizing and unbearable conditions, they must resist, and this...
by Jean-Pierre Bekolo | Sep 14, 2024 | Africa report
The Brazilian model of racial mixing has long been considered a utopia, a vision of what a non-racist humanity could be. Mixed race is indeed a reality in Brazil, a country where almost everyone is, in some way, a little black, a little white, a little...