Imagine people in a circle looking into each other’s eyes and gesticulating as they follow the frantic pace of their yembé, an African percussion instrument that has its origins in the Mandingo empire.

Tradition has it that it was played Continue reading →

The ninth legislature began in Mozambique on 13 January 2020 and the 250 elected deputies took possession of their seats. Everything happened as usual except for a young deputy: Mércia Viriato Licá. At just 24, this young law graduate from Continue reading →

Four African Sisters have restored life to a monastery founded in 1931 by a French Franciscan in the Berber village of Tazert.  “Our doors are open to all”.

We are in Tazert, a Berber village of 3,500 inhabitants sixty kilometres Continue reading →