Sep 30, 2019
How many countries in Africa sing their national anthems in their former masters' language? how many in their national languages?
What would be your ideal song for a panafrican anthem?
What if you were asked to write one?
Let me have your submissions!
Sep 23, 2019
My African cliché of the day is an immigration form. To enter
Laos in August 2019. There was a question about my race. I
logically responded HUMAN.
Then I savored the astonishment of the immigration officer, then
his embarrassed smile, and his exchange with his colleague and
finally this silence so eloquent. I would...
Sep 16, 2019
Last month, on August 2nd, I woke up and realized it has been exactly 22 years, since the world lost one of its iconic presidents, one with a sincere commitment to Africa’s underdogs. On that morning, while waiting for Phuket to wake up, and the lazy sun to shine, I started daydreaming… what does the world...
Sep 9, 2019
My African cliché of the day is a visa. Let’s call it the "Quai Branly Museum Visa”. This is the visa that President Macron will soon put in place, to facilitate school trips for children from villages in Benin to Paris, so that they can finally see for themselves a statuette like Kondo the shark symbolizing...