2023-10-02 17:00:03
“The African Cabaret”, at the Cabaret Sauvage, in Paris, in April 2023. PHOT’HOCINE
Music, singing, theater, circus, dance, clips, archive images and common themes… humor, a corrosive tendency. A certain idea of the total spectacle, popular and transgenerational. Adults and children sit on chairs in front of the Cabaret Sauvage stage, in Paris, Saturday September 30, where returns for three weeks The African Cabaretcreated here in April for three evenings, a musical show imagined by Méziane Azaïche, owner of the place, who directed the setting (with Géraldine Bénichou).
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Journalist Soro Solo, famous radio voice (Enchanted AfricaThen Africa Solo, on France Inter), is writing and the MC (master of ceremonies) of the evening. Amazing storyteller of this “trip to Africa”condensed stories from the African continent, told through a succession of paintings, full of historical references as well as anecdotes and dismantled clichés or highlighting famous successes.
The journey opens with Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (1938-1997): images show him on the two screens installed on either side of the stage. Reacting to the question of a (false) spectator who will intervene several times during the evening in the role of the ingénue, Soro Solo says: “Madame stuck to the caricature: Fela, the one who had married twenty-seven women and smoked joints on stage? Madam, he was an immense artist who openly denounced the corrupt leaders of the African continent, and he was above all the inventor of Afrobeat. »
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A bass, a bell, a saxophone resonate. Under the direction of Adama Bilorou (balafon, kora, djembe), the orchestra (Moussa Koïta on keyboards, Paco Koné on drums, Sekou Bah on bass, Tullia Morand on saxophone and flute, and Djené Kouyaté on vocals ) comes into play. Some measurements of Burning, one of the compositions of the Nigerian musician. “His music is his weapon with which he denounces social injustices, the manipulations of religious people, he mocks Africans with the mentalities of former colonized people, points out the predators of the continent’s wealth. »
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The following table returns to the African soldiers who died for France or killed by it and the episode of the Thiaroye camp, in 1944, in Senegal, where Senegalese riflemen were shot dead, simply because they demanded their pay. The show becomes interactive (whistles and screams from the audience) when the dubious ingénue intervenes again about undocumented immigrants.
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