Keyword : Dans la Ville Noire (In Black City exhibit)
Ethnicolor, First Contemporary Art Exhibit
Jean Loup Pivin
My acquaintance and friend Bruno Tilliette then editor in chief of the magazine "Autrement" (other Way) and working to publish a special issue related to "Africolor" event lets me meeting Simon Njami. He was 25 years old, his first successful novel pocket (not in paperback) 'Coffin Ed and Cie" (a parody of Chester Himes novels), drinking tea as me, success on his lips, intelligent and so proud and contemptuous as he was sympathetic.
Read more...At the Beginning, "In Black City" exhibit
Jean Loup Pivin
« Dans la ville noire » (In Black City) is a project exhibition for the Bicentenary of the French Revolution in 1989, showing the modernity of Africa as a giant and disheveled form, with a catalog number 1 magazine Revue Noire. "In the black city" will not do. But the first issue of the Revue Noire magazine released in May 1991.
To be continued…