FollowChimurenga returns to Paris for a 5-day intervention and installation at La Colonie. From December 13 – 17, 2017, we will install a live radio station and a research library, and host talks, screenings and performances that asks ‘Who Killed Kabila?’, as the starting point for an in-depth investigation into power, territory and the creative imagination.
15.00
Writers Abdourahman Waberi & Antoine Vumilia Muhindo in conversation. During his 10-year stay in Kinshasa’s central prison (accused to have participated in the murder of Kabila), Vumilia lived on a steady diet of novels by Waberi. They review this period and, generally, prison writings and readings in an African context.
16.00
Dominique Malaquais w Julie Peghini and Dieudonné Niangouna explore the role of music in, and the musicality of work of Kongo’s most famous literary son, Sony Labou Tansi
17.00 – 18.30
On the sebene: Composer Franck Biyong in conversation with Ray Lema (composer), Brice Ahounou (anthropologist) and Nadine Fidji (novelist and singer).
18.45 – 20.00
DJ and label manager at Cantos, a Paris-based Congolese music label, Amadou Diallo presents a selection of rumba (live K7 mix).
22.00
Live: Sam Tshintu & Academia (band)
Sam Tshintu est un artiste congolais leader du groupe Quartier Latin pendant 8 ans sous le parrainage du Grand Koffi Olomidé cette experiance a permit au groupe de se forger à la scène notamment grace une grande tournée en Afrique et dans les plus grandes salles européennes.
La scène reste aujourd’hui le seul endroit ou le groupe s’exprime le mieux grace a la communion avec le publique nombreux amateur de Rumba et de la bonne musique congolaise .
23.00
DJ Bullit: A DJ and vinyl collector based in Paris, Bullit’s sets run the gamut of global black music, from jazz and blues, through funk, disco, motown, and travelling further to include afro-beat, jamaican jams and new and old school hip hop.