EU SOU ÁFRICA - aos sábados, 19h, na 2

1º episódio, dia 5 de fevereiro: Luanda, com Luzia Sebastião

 

Em 2010 fizemos uma viagem pelas cinco áfricas que falam português - Moçambique, Angola, São Tomé e Príncipe, Guiné-Bissau e Cabo-Verde. Encontramos países com 35 anos de vida independente e pessoas que ousaram experimentar novas ideias e instigar práticas diferentes, construindo caminhos para a cidadania. EU SOU ÁFRICA é o resultado desses encontros, uma série documental de 10 episódios que são outros tantos retratos de gente capaz de inacreditável resiliência e de sonhos altos, gente que caminha com a História.

Dez heróis quase desconhecidos do grande público que, como actores e testemunhas privilegiadas, reflectem sobre a história recente de África e os desafios que o continente enfrenta. Todos participaram na independência dos seus países e, mais do que respostas, partilham interrogações para o futuro e a capacidade de desfazer os lugares-comuns que persistem na percepção dos seus lugares de origem. O campo de acção é diverso, da Educação, às Artes, à Justiça, à Agricultura, à Religião, ao Ambiente ou à História, mas o terreno que lavram é comum: a responsabilização de cada um face ao presente, pois todos os protagonistas decidiram viver integramente o seu tempo histórico e as problemáticas que o mesmo trouxe. São estas pessoas que EU SOU ÁFRICA traz para a frente da câmara, e com elas países inteiros. Porque, como diz Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, “um percurso biográfico se faz de tempos, de lugares, modos, percepções, ocorrências, experiências, resultados, aquisições, perplexidades, digestões e ressacas”, e alguns percursos conseguem ser tão exemplares como humanos.

Realização 

Maria João Guardão 

Pesquisa

Marta Lança

Imagem

Luísa Homem

Som

Marta Lança/Maria João Guardão

Produção 

Patrícia Faria / Marta Lança (local) 

Música Original

Steve Bird

Pós-produção de Imagem

RoughCut

Micael Rodrigues

Pedro Rodrigues

Pós-produção Audio

Big Bit

João Megre

Layout & Design

RoughCut

David Gabriel

produção RTP  - Vitrimédia (Diogo Queiroz de Andrade) e Desmedida Filmes (Maria João Guardão)

 

 

02.02.2011 | par martalanca | Eu Sou África

Sub-Saharan Africa Scholarship Programme for Young African Researchers

Sub-Saharan Africa
Scholarship Programme for Young African Researchers

Universities of the Coimbra Group offer short research stay to young researchers
from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Due to the high volume of applications the Coimbra Group Office is unable to answer
queries, therefore applicants are requested to read the brochure carefully before
filling the application form. The deadline for applying is 15 March 2011.
Please note that this scheme is only targeting countries from the Sub-Saharan
region, therefore countries from North Africa are unfortunately not covered.

http://www.coimbra-group.eu/index.php?page=sub-saharan-africa

Please note:
1 - Applicants must provide the name and contact details of a tutor in the receiving
institution who will supervise their work during their stay abroad. If you do not
have any contacts, we suggest you visit the website of your chosen institution. The
Coimbra Group Office is not in the position to provide assistance in this.
2 – Given the high volume of applications the Coimbra Group Office will not be able
to answer individual requests. Please make sure you read carefully the application
brochure.
3 – Applicants can select one institution only. Multiple applications from the same
candidate will be rejected.

02.02.2011 | par nadinesiegert

Günther Uecker - The Human Abdudes. 14 Pacified Implements

03.02.2011 — 06.03.2011
District Six Museum, Cape Town

60 Words from the Old Testament. Man's Inhumanity to Man (1992)60 Words from the Old Testament. Man's Inhumanity to Man (1992)

“My subject is life and death”, says the artist Günther Uecker, born in Wendorf in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania in 1930, about his work. His “Mistreated Man: 14 pacified implements”, created for the Institute for Foreign Relations between the autumn of 1992 and spring 1993, also lives through the contrast, the discord of these two poles. It is the portrait of an artist, but not at all in the conventional sense. On the contrary, Uecker reacts – in the language of form typical of him, namely slats of wood, linen cloths, nails, stones, ash, sand, pages of writing – to the “injury of human being by human being”, or, to be more exact, to the use of violence against foreigners in Germany. Based on the stations of the Christian Way of the Cross, Uecker has developed fourteen graphic works which bear titles such as “Way of Obstacles”, “White Tears”, “Fireplace”, and “Scourging Mill”. In these works – meant to warn – he expresses his visions of life and life’s suffering and tries to reveal, in his sensitive setting of signs, basic human drives: aggression, injury, destruction, setting against them gestures of reconciliation. As Uecker says, “Thus my protest, my statement is an expression of my agitation, a portrait of an artist in Germany, so to speak.”

 

 

 

 

02.02.2011 | par nadinesiegert

"Paulo Flores: o Talento da Utopia", lançamento dia 4

 

O livro de Gabriel Baguet “Paulo Flores: o Talento da Utopia” será lançado dia 4, pelas 19h, no Museu da Agua em Lisboa (rua do alviela, 12 - santa apolónia)

com a presença de amigos e músicos.

Sinónimo da melhor música angolana da actualidade, o cantor e compositor Paulo Flores soube, ao longo de uma carreira de mais de vinte anos, ressuscitar, popularizar e recriar uma panóplia de géneros musicais, entre os quais se destaca o semba, ritmo que se encontra indissociavelmente ligado à sua voz. Coleccionador de êxitos comerciais e elogios da crítica, o músico merecia, há muito, uma homenagem que lhe fizesse jus ao talento, lacuna que o jornalista Gabriel Baguet Jr. soube preencher com a concepção deste livro. Repleta de material iconográfico, nomeadamente ilustrações originais de Helena Palma e de Dília Fraguito, e fotografias que retratam a vida do artista, desde a meninice aos últimos concertos em Portugal, a presente obra inclui também uma nota biográfica, uma discografia completa, a reprodução de vários artigos de imprensa, a transcrição de diversas entrevistas, bem como depoimentos assinados por nomes-chave da cultura lusófona, caso de Miguel Anacoreta Correia, Tito Paris, Jaques Morelenbaum ou Carlos Ferreira. Celebração da arte de Paulo Flores, este livro prova ainda como o seu canto «colocou pedras nos alicerces do mundo.»

 

02.02.2011 | par martalanca

AFRICANEANDO. Revista de actualidad y experiencias.

Núm. 4, cuarto trimestre 2010

En oozebap os ofrecemos un nuevo número de la revista virtual y de acceso libre. Africaneando, con la que pretendemos crear un pequeño espacio de intercambio, reflexión y comentarios sobre África. Esperamos que la disfrutéis y que os animéis a colaborar.

Africaneando Nº 4 - Sumario -Abdulkadir Salad Elmi: Los verdaderos piratas en Somalia: Washington, París y Oslo.-Temie Giwa: Recordando a Ken.-Monica Ighorodje: La década de la mujer africana: oportunidades estratégicas.-Oyeronke Oyewumi: Conceptualizando el género: Los fundamentos eurocéntricos de los conceptos feministas y el reto de la epistemología africana.-Alana Tiemessen: Del genocidio al yihad: Islam y etnicidad en Ruanda.-Oscar Escudero: Neopentecostalismo en África, una introducción a los trabajos de Asonzeh Ukah.-Lorenzo Mazzoni: El ‘Kebra Nagast’ - libro sagrado de la tradición etíope y Biblia secreta para los Rastafaris.-Reseña del libro Ecos de Malabo, de Maximiliano Nkogo Esono.-Reseña del libro Un ensayo sobre la violencia (En las fronteras de lo humano), de Eloy Cuadra Pedrini. 
Todo el contenido disponible en http://africaneando.org en formato web y PDF de acceso gratuito y sin previa suscripción. 
Africaneando está publicado bajo una licencia Creative Commons 3.0 Reconocimiento-No Comercial con la que los contenidos pueden ser copiados, distribuidos y comunicados públicamente, siempre que se reconozcan los créditos de la obra y no se utilice con fines comerciales.  Para que sirva! 

www.oozebap.org         www.africaneando.org        Twitter: twitter.com/africaneando


02.02.2011 | par franciscabagulho

Orféu Negro

02.02.2011 | par martalanca

"Bravest girl in Egypt" translated into English

 You can now read and understand the slogans of the demonstrators. Translated by Iyad El-Baghdadi, subbed by Ammara Alavi. 

Find me at:
http://www.el-baghdadi.com
https://www.facebook.com/iyad.elbaghdadi
https://twitter.com/iyad_elbaghdadi

02.02.2011 | par martalanca | Egipto

Madiba

Por estes dias os sul-africanos estão muito preocupados com a saúde de Nelson Mandela. E com o seu próprio futuro. Como eu os compreendo..
Quando eu nasci, este homem foi detido e posto a ferros. Foi em Agosto de 1962.
Eu cresci, fui à escola, ao teatro, à missa e até ao futebol. Fui ao cinema e vi coboiadas e comédias. Assisti a caçadas e revoltas, matanças, fugas em massa, contra-revoluções, intentonas e golpes de estado, eleições e até filmes pornográficos. Mudei de país, de hemisfério, até de continente. Morri de amores e sobrevivi a alguns ódios. Travei as minhas guerras (tenho feridas que o provam), vi pulhices de todas as cores e até touradas. Arranjei trabalho e até uma profissão.
.No ano em que fiz vinte e sete anos, eu pensava que já tinha vivido um bocado.-Foi quando soltaram o homem.Foi ele que, mais tarde, me ensinou que o importante não é o que nos fazem, mas sim o que nós fazemos.
retirado do blog de Fernando Campos 

02.02.2011 | par martalanca | Mandela

Português Língua Não Materna - dicas

Já está no ar: 
sítio para a Partilha de Recursos de Português Língua Não Materna!
Com materiais adequados a alunos do 1º e 2º Ciclo!  
Espreitem, aproveitem e passem palavra.

por Maria Prata

02.02.2011 | par martalanca

Top Kilimanjaro 05-02-2011 -escuta aí!

1-Puto Prata- Ta sair mal mantem-se

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2-Walter & Nicol Ananaz-Mboia sobe 1

3-Cabo Snoop-Prakatumba sobe 1

4-Yola Semedo & Paulo Flores- Mar azul cai 2

5-Dj Jeff & Silivy-Txi Txi Tximba mantem-se

6-Mark G. & William-Ka ta podé entrada nova

7-Gisela Silva-Vou xinguilar cai 1

8-Ary-Vai dar bum mantem-se

9-Lucenzo-Vem dançar kuduro sobe 1

10-Ina-Sun is up cai 1

Podem ouvir aos Sábado a meia noite na RDP-África.

Reposição nas madrugadas de sexta-feira às duas da manhã

 

Dj Carlos Pedro

01.02.2011 | par martalanca | música

Apoiem a Revolução do Povo Egípcio!Soutenez la Révolution du peuple Egyptien! Support the People's Revolution in Egypt!

Apoiem a Revolução do Povo Egípcio!

Soutenez la Révolution du peuple Egyptien!

Support the People’s Revolution in Egypt

On January 25, we the people of Egypt took to the streets to demand our rights! We are not unified by one party, class or religion: we are not Muslim and we are not Christian, we are not rich and we are not poor - we are the multifaceted people of Egypt - Muslims and Christian’s and Egyptians of all classes.

We demand our civil, political and human rights.
We demand the immediate resignation of the president and parliament.
We demand a new constitution.
We demand free and fair elections.
We demand the complete and total release of all political prisoners and detainees.
We demand the return of open access to all communication networks.
We demand that the police stop shooting at us, stop their brutality and stop their attacks on journalists.

We are the January 25 movement, and we are not going to stop until our demands are met! We call on Egyptians and internationals to lend a hand and help us win by signing this petition, which will be sent to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, officials in the interior and foreign ministries, and Egyptian embassies all over the world.

Winning this campaign depends on our ability to call on thousands of supporters like you. After signing this petition, please follow us on Facebook - just click ‘Like’ at the top of the page.

http://www.change.org/petitions/support-the-peoples-revolution-in-egypt-

 

01.02.2011 | par ritadamasio

sr. diplomata, cacique 97

 

01.02.2011 | par martalanca | cacique 97

Eleições de Cabo Verde, mesas de voto em Portugal

Realizam-se no dia 06 de Fevereiro de 2011, as Eleições Legislativas da República de Cabo Verde.

A Embaixada de Cabo Verde em Lisboa torna público que em Portugal irão funcionar 48 Mesas de Assembleia de Voto, as quais se distribuem pela Região de Lisboa e Vale do Tejo, Região Norte e Região Sul do País e Região Autónoma dos Açores.

Os Cidadãos Caboverdianos validamente recenseados poderão exercer o seu direito de voto nas Mesas de Voto atrás indicadas, devendo para o efeito fazer-se acompanhar do respectivo passaporte ou bilhete de identidade cabo-verdianos, mesmo que se encontrem caducados, ou de título de residência ou passaporte português válidos.

As Mesas de Voto serão abertas às 8.00 Horas do dia 06 de Fevereiro e encerrarão às 18.00 Horas, pelo que deverão os eleitores caboverdianos dirigir-se nesse horário à Mesa de Voto em que estejam inscritos, cujo endereço consta do quadro anexo.

Para qualquer informação adicional, poderão os mesmos consultar os editais afixados nos seguintes locais:

-       Secção Consular da Embaixada de Cabo Verde em Lisboa;

-       Consulado Honorário de Cabo Verde no Porto;

-       Consulado Honorário de Cabo Verde em Portimão;

-       Consulado Honorário de Cabo Verde em Coimbra;

-       Gabinete de Apoio Consular em Setúbal;

-       Gabinete de Apoio Consular em Sines;

-       e em todos os locais onde se encontram Assembleias de Mesas de Voto.

De igual modo, encontram-se disponíveis os websites da Embaixada de Cabo Verde, e da Direcção Geral de Apoio ao Processo Eleitoral -  cuja consulta permitirá ao cidadão eleitoral identificar a sua Mesa de Voto e respectivo endereço.

+ infos: 800 208 658.

01.02.2011 | par franciscabagulho

Egypt's security vacuum

While a relative calm can be seen in many parts of Cairo, the anger and fear among ordinary Egyptians is still there.
Jacky Rowland reports on the mood on the streets.

31.01.2011 | par martalanca

Myths and Fairy Tales in African Art

Africa in Motion 2011 Symposium / 29 October 2011

The Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival 2011 will focus on films and events that open doors to children and youth in Africa. Throughout the festival and at this one-day symposium we will look at artistic representations for, by and about children and young people in Africa. As a vital aspect of children’s lives is their education both within and outside of the family structure, we will look at how (his)stories and myths are told, changed and exchanged through time, and how they influence the form, style and structure of film in the relatively young cinema from Africa.

The forthcoming symposium, to take place 29th October 2011, invites renewed interpretations of stories, myths and tales as a means of reflecting on and inheriting Africa’s past, present and future. Storytelling is an essential aspect of African cinema and literature as the role of the African griot has deeply influenced writers, poets and filmmakers such as Ousmane Sembène and Férid Boughedir.

The symposium seeks to interrogate the dramatic, poetic and visual character of culturally foundational stories (fairy / mythic / classical / religious etc), the formal operations and cultural forces of their diverse tellings and showings across media, and the ways in which their psychological, social, political and aesthetic functions have been interpreted and employed.

Papers could include themes such as: the identity of the African griot, the performativity of stories and myths, the intervention of tales and myths in the narrative structure, adaptation from story to screen, fairy tales for children, fairy tales for adults, anti-tales, and transculturing of inherited myths. Contributors are welcome to submit with these proposed themes in mind, or in any other field that speaks to the theme of the symposium.

Continuez à lire "Myths and Fairy Tales in African Art"

31.01.2011 | par martalanca

Senior Africa Analyst - Oxford Analytica, Editorial

AnOxford Analytica is seeking a Senior Africa Analyst to cover the business and politics of the region.

Oxford Analytica has established an international reputation for delivering global macro analysis to investors, businesses, international organisations and governments around the world, alerting them to risks and opportunities on a daily basis. Our flagship Daily Brief is the product of a highly qualified team of in-house analysts who draw upon an external global network of hundreds of leading scholars and experts to deliver timely, authoritative and impartial analysis.

We currently are seeking a Senior Africa Analyst to expand our analytical and advisory practices covering the business and politics of the region. Proven expertise in contemporary Africa is required, ideally gained by academic study as well as work or residency in one or more countries of the region. Preference will be given to candidates with strong commercial as well as academic credentials. Proficiency in French/familiarity with francophone Africa will also be an advantage.

The primary role will be to generate and deliver to global clients in the public and private sectors top-flight analysis of the region, in keeping with the international reputation of the firm. Applicants must therefore possess excellent writing and editing skills, combined with a proven capacity to engage clients directly and authoritatively, as well as media skills. The successful candidate will join a team of some 12 full-time analysts based in Oxford, and report to the head of the Analytical Practice.

We are looking for someone with a confident, outgoing personality combined with a strong capacity for teamwork and willingness to learn. Oxford Analytica’s output is the product of a unique combination of in-house and external expertise; an ability to draw upon such skills is therefore essential in order to deliver to clients the highest quality analysis and advice.

The position is Oxford-based, but some travel is envisaged, both within and beyond the United Kingdom. A competitive salary is on offer.

 

read more

31.01.2011 | par martalanca

Africa Here; Africa There Conference- The Canadian Association of African Studies (deadline: 21 February 2011)

York University, Toronto, Canada

5-7 May, 2011

Plenary speakers:

 

 Achille MBEMBE, Wiser Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Exiting from the Long Night? Cultural Forms and Institutions in Africa- Sortir de la grande nuit? Formes culturelles et institutions  en Afrique ;

 

 Imed MELLITI, Institut Supérieur des Sciences Humaines, University of Tunis el-Manar: Jeunesses maghrébines : religiosité, enjeux identitaires et enjeux de reconnaissance- Maghrebine  Youth: Religiosity, Identity and Recognition ;

 

Donald SIMPSON, Innovation Expedition, Africa - Here and There in the Sixties: A Canadian Perspective. Afrique Ici et ailleurs dans les années 1960: Une perspective canadienne.

 

Official Conference Opening / Ouverture officielle de la conférence

Dr. Mamdouh SHOUKRI, President and Vice-Chancellor of York University/ Recteur et Vice-chancelier de l’Université York.

 

 The Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS) extends a special invitation to scholars and professionals working on all aspects of African Studies for its next annual conference. The conference, to be held on May 5-7, 2011, at York University - Université York, Toronto, Canada, will be hosted by the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, York University, with the support of various internal and external sponsors. Our aim is to attract an international group of specialists at all stages in their careers to facilitate discussion and  dialogue, in both of Canada’s official languages, across disciplines and between scholars and professionals based in both the North and South.

 

 In recognition of 2011 having been proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly as the International Year for People of African Descent, the central theme of the 2011 annual conference of the Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS) is Africa Here; Africa There. Africans have long peopled the African continent, as well as other landscapes through external migrations. During the modern era, the movement of African peoples has taken place under three major contexts: various trades in human beings, economic hardship emanating from natural and non-natural factors, and political, ethnic, religious and other types of persecution.

 Whether internal or external, the displacement of African peoples has always led to greater complexities within the host societies. Africans and people of African descent, free, freed or enslaved, made up a sizeable proportion of the population of Évora and Lisbon during the late 1400s and early 1500s and performed much of the most menial manual work while speaking various West and West-Central African languages and supplying characters and speech patterns to the works of contemporaneous playwrights  like Gil Vicente. The same was true of London, not to mention other places in the United Kingdom, from at least the time of Shakespeare to the early 19th century. By the mid-1800s, their presence and influence was even more pervasive in Brazil, as well as Cuba. Similarly if Africans and the descendants of Africans attempted to recreate their homelands, imagined or not, amongst host societies, as was the case of the marooned  Zanj in Iraq (869-883 A.D.), the great Bantu state of Palmares in XVIIth century Brazil, or  later the Igbo in Maryland and Virginia, Jamaica, and Barbados, the process today is no less omnipresent as exemplified by the existence of Little Angola in Rio de Janeiro, Little Nigeria in Houston, or the current attempt  to establish a Little Ethiopia in Toronto.

In other words, Africa has long existed within the old continent and beyond as well. This reality, far from signifying solely an African presence, points to a series of new ways of moving across and exploiting space stemming from an evolving division of world labor, distribution of resources, and production of modes of living together. Africa Here; Africa There will explore, in English and in French, the multifaceted complexities generated by these phenomena within and outside of Africa over time from the perspective of various disciplines.

 

The Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS) contributes expertise, research, and informed debate concerning a wide range of African “matter” related to sociocultural issues, the arts, political economy, the environment and transnationalism, among others. Since 1970,CAAS has demonstrated how African issues matter to a wider range of Canadian and international publics in academic, policy-making, programming, and many other circles. The expanding recognition of African contexts and initiatives to a growing range of transnational practices (from humanitarianism to peace building; markets to social movements; climate change to food security; religious dynamism to health and education policies; sports to music, theatre and cinema; truth and reconciliation processes, migration and diasporas to the forging of the world) has meant the continent is taking on a greater prominence in the attention, imagination, and actions of more and more publics. We also encourage the submission, whether in English or in French, of research papers in these and other areas.

 

In the last forty years, like many other Northern nations, Canada has had expanding and diverse relations with Africa.

African immigration to Canada has increased not only through the regular immigration of professionals and others, but also, importantly, through refugees fleeing from conflicts in areas such as Uganda (1972), Somalia (since 1991), and Algeria (since 1992). In turn, a growing number of Canadians have been to Africa through an expansion of humanitarian and international development activities by Canadian governmental and non-governmental organizations, business activities, particularly in natural resources sectors, university exchanges, and tourism. Solidarity work by Canadian individuals and groups also increased during this period, from working with national liberation groups to supporting human rights agendas, from advocating for women rights to addressing health and environmental conditions.

Canadian governments have been preoccupied with African matters through international bodies such the Commonwealth, la Francophonie, the United Nations, and G-8 summits playing a visible part during the anti-apartheid struggle, peacekeeping and peace building activities, and supporting NEPAD (New Partnership for Africa’s Development), to name but a few.

The growing number of Canadians of African birth and descent have not only played important roles in such exchanges and ties but also helped to introduce or expand new consumption patterns and artistic practices in Canada(in food, clothes, music, film, literature, and the like) and new forms of religiosity and congregations. At the same time, there have been some tensions emerging in Canada-African relations such as: the tightening of visas on African visitors coming to Canada in the name of security and to limit refugee claims; a reduction in the number of Canadian peacekeepers in Africa; a recent reduction in number of African priority countries for CIDA; protests over labor practices and engagement against corrupt practices; and, limited African beneficiaries of Canadian direct foreign investment in Africa.

 

The above issues help to highlight key concerns and demonstrate why there is growing interest in Africa in Canada. However, there is a vast array  of topics of interest in African Studies beyond these issues, as well, that would be welcomed to be presented at this conference. From examining wide-reaching events such as the slave-trades, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and current conflicts to the minutia of everyday life such as schooling practices, religious invocations, and media consumption, Africa Here; Africa There will provide an opportunity for the sharing of research and debate concerning the study of these issues in both English and French.

 

CAAS, including its Canadian Journal of African Studies, have historically embodied extensive coverage of the continent and, in that spirit of attending to all African

matters, this conference welcomes papers on a wide range of topics concerning Africa and African peoples abroad from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches. In keeping with the bilingual nature of CAAS and the encouragement of bilingual study at York University, paper and panel proposals in French are particularly welcomed.

 

Africa Here; Africa There aims to continue the CAAS tradition that exemplifies why Africa matters to various publics in Canada and beyond. This Call for Papers intends to provide a forum for addressing and presenting academic  research and policy proposals that examine the histories, debates, policy issues, and current practices related to African matters.

 

The deadline for submitting paper, as well as panel, proposals has been extended to February 21, 2011. For information on submitting paper and panel abstracts, conference registration payment (on-line or by cheque), requests for funding for graduate students in Canada, and

accommodation possibilities please go to http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~caas/en/2011conference.html

 

 

31.01.2011 | par ritadamasio | Africa, african studies, Canada, Conference

Tunisie: l'héroisme ordinaire des femmes

Portfólio sonoro publicado no Le Monde.fr

31.01.2011 | par franciscabagulho

Kimi Djabaté, 18 Fev no Musicbox, LISBOA

Há uma parte da população mundial que carrega os séculos às costas, como se de sacola com farnel se tratasse. No ponto de convergência que é Lisboa, são tantos que mais parece que a cidade está em constante viagem – e é bom lembrar que o tempo é também um espaço navegável e experimentado. Se olharmos com atenção e cuidado, é entre eles que encontramos os verdadeiros desafios intelectuais e artísticos, que abundam em densidade e perspectiva. Assim é com Kimi Djabaté, tocador de balafón nascido e criado em Tabato, território da Guiné-Bissau onde os griots, músicos originários do Mali, se firmaram há séculos. Karam, o segundo álbum do multi-instrumentista que a respeitada Cumbancha editou, tem essa matriz genética telúrica – a infância, os alicerces, a genuinidade – e uma reflexão social e política do que é África nos dias que correm. É cantado em mandinga, mas a música que debita é universal. E imprescindível.
De volta aos concertos em Lisboa, Kimi sobe pela primeira vez ao palco do Musicbox a 18 de Fevereiro.

31.01.2011 | par franciscabagulho | balafón, Kimi Djabaté, música da Guiné-Bissau, Musicbox

good vibes!

31.01.2011 | par martalanca