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Kwa, Samuel Nja (dir./ed.):
Africa is Music.
Douala: Éditions Duta, 2018. 300 p.
ISBN 978-2-9542391-2-5

TABLE DES MATIÈRES / CONTENTS

Alune Wade
Préface / Preface 9

Samuel Nja Kwa
Avant-propos L’œil musical /
Foreword The musical eye 11  

Nadine Bilong
Introduction Quand l’Afrique se chante /
Introduction When Africa performs 18
 
Musique & tradition / Music and tradition 23
Mamadou Samb
Parole et musique de griot / Griot’s music and voice 24
Sam Pefoura
La musique traditionnelle et culturelle au pays Bamum /
Traditional and cultural music in the Bamum Country 32
Aziz Sahmaoui
Musique gnaoua : le recit des cultes mystiques /
Gnaoua music: mystical cults 42
Wadane Ndiaye Rose
Le Sabar en heritage / Sabar in Legacy 46

African Lipanda / Africa Lipanda 53
Alain Brain
Indépendance Cha-Cha 52
Dibango
Les mille et une vies de Manu /
The colourful saga of Manu’s lives 56

Bantu spirit / Bantu spirit 63
Clément Ossinondé
Bakolo Rumba 62
Marien Fauney Ngombé
La Guitare d’Iyogbé / Iyogbé’s guitar 74
Samuel Nja Kwa
Once upon a time in Cameroon 64
Rita Diba
Histoire d’une exploration triangulaire /
Stories of a triangular exploration 92

Mande blues / Mande blues 109
GnaGna Koné
ManDinka Mater en Blues / ManDinka Mother in Blues 108
Coumba Sylla
L’Emprise des sons de l’enfance / Childhood songs’ influence 112
[Photos 117-123]

Samuel Nja Kwa
L’Afrique insulaire / Insular Africa 127
[Photos 130-137]

Road to music / Road to music 141
Samuel Nja Kwa
Voix du Nord / Sounds of the North 140
Ade Bantu
L’épreuve / The challenge 150
Le voyage initiatique d’Abou Diarra /
The initiatory journey of Abou Diarra 156
Amen Viana
De Ladyland à Togoland / From Ladyland to Togoland 160

Musique de conscientisation :
engagement, militantisme et education /
Awareness music:
commitment, activism, education 167
Elisa Desbordes-Cissé
L’Afrique à Cœur / Africa with a heart 166
Samuel Nja Kwa
L’Afrique chante Madiba / Africa sings Madiba 176
Merneptah Noufou Zougmoré
La passion de Thomas Sankara / Thomas Sankara’s passion 184
Samuel Nja Kwa
Sur les traces de Fela /Following Fela’s footsteps 188
[Photos 198-209]

L’esprit jail / The jali spirit 213
Samuel Nja Kwa
Call and response 212
[Photos 220-243]
Blick Bassy
Communion et partage / Communion and sharing 244

Musique & cinema / Music & cinema 246
Farah Clémentine Dramani-Issifou
Bande originale / Original soundtrack 248

Musique & football / Music & football 252
Jean-Pierre Esso
Groove et passements de jambs / Groove and step-over 254

Sounds of diaspora : exil & migration /
Sound of diaspora: Exile & migration 260
Guy Marc Tony Mefe
Exil / Exile 262
Alsarah
Entre deux mondes / Between two worlds 266

Sounds in the city / Sounds in the city 268
Raissa Okoi
Les clés du succès de la musique afro urbaine /
Afro-urban music, the keys to success 272
Usher Aliman
Abidjan, capitale du reggae / Abidjan capital of reggae 264
Youssoupha Fehé Sarr
Le rap en Afrique : entre identités samplées et oralité digitalisée /
Rap in Africa between sampled identities and digital orality 268

Wally Badarou
Postface / Postface 295

Guests / Guests [Authors] 296

Remerciements / Special thanks 300

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