22- Cultural Creations for Young People
23- The Internet in Africa
24- What Can the Poetry Do ?
25- Africa's Colonial Conscripts
26- Portugese-speaking Africa
27- Black Actors
28- Postcolonialism: Inventory and Issues
29- Music and Showbiz
30- Rwanda 2000
31- Introducing Benin
32- African Comics
33 - West African Hunter
34 - Black Brazil
35 - Masculine Feminine
36 - Culture in Gabon ?
37 - The Role of Music in Black Film
38 - MASA 2001, the Living Arts in Africa
39 - African Photograph(er)s
40 - A New South Africa?
41 - Africanity : questions and issues
42 - Contemporary African Dance
43 - Revisiting the Colony
44 - Black New York
45 - Film: the African exception
46 - Congolese Renaissance

n°1 - Octobre 1997
Questioning Criticism

Editorial
The Western criticism of African images
Olivier Barlet
The Enfants Terribles of contemporary Francophone African Theatre
Sylvie Chalaye
Fools: Review and Interview with Ramadan Suleiman
Interview with Jean-Servais Bakyono
Interview with Baba Diop
Reality-based
Clément Tapsoba

n°2 - November 1997
African Women

Editorial
Mother Courage
Interview with Werewere Liking
Bintou by Koffi Kwahulé
Interview with Safi Faye
Beyala: Writing on the Edge

n°3 - December 1997
The Perception of Others

Editorial
What images mean
interview with Youssef El Ftouh
Black tarantella and white devil
The unbearable beauty of African music
Releasing the self to paint
interview with Zirignon Grobli
From dangerous native to amicable cannibal: theatrical representation in the colonial era
Sylvie Chalaye

n°4 - January 1998
South Africa's Hidden Faces

Editorial
L'Arche du désert by Mohamed Chouick
La Montagne de Baya
Interview with Azzedine Meddour

n°5 - February 1998
Young African Artists

Editorial

n°6 - March 1998
Slavery - Has it Been Abolished ?

Editorial
Interview with Doudou Diène
The tragedy of non-representation
Sylvie Chalaye
The painful quest for lost humanity
Boniface Mongo-Mboussa
Cinema: back to the future
Olivier Barlet
Interview with François Woukoache

n°7 - April 1998
The Great Lakes and After?

Editorial

n°8 - May 1998
African Roots in Caribbean Music

Editorial

n°9 - June 1998
Black Cinema : the Question of Memory

Editorial
Cinematic voices: African women filmmakers at the Créteil Women's Film Festival
Melissa Tchackway

n°10 - September 1998
Theatrical Explorations

Editorial
interview with Michèle Rakotoson
Taina Tervonen
Djibril Diop Mambety, the one and only
Cannes 98: an exclusion?
La Vie sur terre [Life on Earth]
interview with Abderrahmane Sissako

n°11 - October 1998
Writing Slavery

Editorial
Niamey's literary fortnight
Alfred Dogbé
Niamey: from dromedary to giraffe
Tanella Boni

n°12 - November 1998
Laughter in Africa

Editorial
Is Duparc's humour ambiguous ?
Olivier Barlet
Danced laughter
entretien avec Koffi Kôkô
Interview with Ahmadou Kourouma
Ahmadou Kourouma: an atypical path
Boniface Mongo-Mboussa
African presence in Colombia
Denise Mendez

n°13 - December 1998
African Cultural Identity in the Maghreb

Editorial
Gnawa, an alternative therapy
interview with Georges Lapassade
Mohamed Tabal
Frédéric Damgaard
" The Maghreb's roots lie in the South "
interview with Amazigh Kateb (Gnawa Diffusion)
The forbidden windows of Black African film
interview with Ferid Boughedir
Tourbillon (Silmande) by Pierre Yameogo (Burkina Faso)
Interview with Pierre Yameogo

n°14 - January 1999
African Production

Editorial
"We need to know how to honour books"
interview with Aminata Sow Fall and Moussa Konaté
Interview with Mongo Beti
The FIMA : miracle or mirage ?
Ayoko Mensah
Femi Kuti takes up the combat
interview with Femi Kuti

n°15 - February 1999
The Writer in Exile

Editorial
Exile
Jean-Luc Raharimanana
Of recognition
Jean-Roger Essomba
The meaning of exile
interview with Abdelkader Djemaï
Moshekwa Mokwena Langa's re-enchanted world
Abdourahman A.Waberi
A glimmer of hope from a dying country
Brazzaville, Patrice Yengo

n°16 - March 1999
African Artists in Quebec

Editorial
The publication of "Trop de soleil tue l'amour"
interview with Mongo Beti
I was looking for the Palmier en Zinc and I found the Palmier en Zique
Djibouti, Idris Youssouf Elmi

n°17 - April 1999
African Traces in Cuba

Editorial
Cuban music at the crossroads
Maya Roy

n°18 - May 1999
New African Creations

Editorial

MASA 99

The market I believe In
Tanella Boni

Theatre by Sylvie Chalaye
Theater that reaches out to its audience
Seven great shakes shake up African theater
Compagnie les 7 Koûss
interview with Philippe Laurent
What a line up
L’Atelier Nomade
Hell is human
Compagnie du Sphinx
interview with Binda N’Gazolo
The dangers of reppropriating
Atelier Théâtre de Lomé
A people driven mad by history
Afriki Projections
Not very enchanting...
Groupe Ki-Yi M’Bock
A mystery play on an Abidjan lagoon
interview with Marcela Pizzaro

Dance with Ayoko Mensah
Dance on the move
Gaara, Cleansing
J-Ban, Messe Mon
The Tchetche Company
Compagnie Walo W’afeka
National Dance Company
Soweto Dance Theater
Nyanga Dance, Ezezam ou le vice

Music with Gérald Arnaud
African music: is show business washing it out

From one festival to the next
Jean-Louis Favier

FESPACO 99

Fespaco 99 : new directions ?
Olivier Barlet
The Fespaco through the eyes of the South Africans
Anne K. Sé
The master's last testament
Pièces d’identité
Jean-Servais Bakyono
interview with Ngangura Mweze
La Genèse
Olivier Barlet
nterview with Oumar Sissoko
TGV
Jean-Servais Bakyono
Demain je brûle
Jean-Servais Bakyono

Criticism by Olivier Barlet
Mektoub, Dakan, Chikin Bizniss, Noces de lune, Letting go, Saïkati the Enkabaani, La Jumelle, Femmes... et femmes, Lalla Hobby, Waalo Fendo, Sucre Amer,
Shorts films and documentaries - The emergence of the intimate

n°19 - June 1999
The African Body

Editorial
Interview with Andrée Davanture

n°20 - September 1999
The Slave Trade : An African Taboo ?

Editorial
Ashamed silence
interview with Tiburce Koffi
And what is that's what we were always speaking about...?
interview with Gety Dambury and Boubacar Boris Diop
Other burdens to bear
interview with Elie Liazéré
The African public isn't ready
interview with Maurice Bandaman
An intimidating subject
interview with Koffi Kwahulé
A truncated memory
interview with Kossi Efoui
Colonization has effaced slavery
interview with Alfred Dogbé
A reflection on power
interview with Roger Gnoan M'Bala

n°21 - October 1999
Hip Hop Culture

Editorial
Eve’s Bayou by Kasi Lemmons (USA)
Au bout du fleuve by Imunga Ivanga (Gabon)
Meme le vent... by Laurence Attali (France)

n°22 - November 1999
Cultural Creations for Young People

Editorial
The joy of reading
interview with Véronique Tadjo
Marrying futility and utility
interview with Dany Kouyaté

n°23 - December 1999
The Internet in Africa

Editorial
Women must be present
Interview with Aïcha Tambura
Recif - ONG (Burkina Faso)
Drawing the first conclusions already
Interview with Amadou Top
Keeping the mandarins on their toes
Interview with Alex Corenthin
Head of Department at the Ecole

n°24 - January 2000
What Can the Poetry Do ?

Editorial
Interview with ZAKES MDA (South Africa)

n°25 - February 2000
Africa's Colonial Conscripts

Editorial
Less-than-nothings!
Soeuf Elbadawi
A brief look back at a soldiers' combat: colonization, mobilization, crystallization
Interview with retired-Colonel Maurice Rives
Domesticated or Savage?
Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard
The contradictory Tirailleur in African film
Olivier Barlet

n°26 - March 2000
Portugese-speaking Africa

Editorial

n°27 - April 2000
Black Actors

Editorial
From France to Haiti and back
interview with Michèle Lemoine
Marco Prince: star musician cum actor
Tale of a homecoming
Interview with Sidiki Bakab
An Afro-European: Félicité Wouassi
"Give us parts!"
Interview with Aïssa Maïga
From Montreal to Paris
Interview with Maka Kotto
Félix Kama: a black actor in Germany
Interview with Félix Kama
Peter Brook and black actors
Sylvie Chalaye
Towards an African cultural network
Olivier Barlet

n°28 - May 2000
Postcolonialism: Inventory and Issues

Editorial
Postcolonial criticism, a study of specificities
Interview with Jean-Marc Moura
Postcolonialism and cinema: from difference to relationships
Olivier Barlet
Translation, post-colonialism and power
Taina Tervonen
Issues facing the african arts
Interview with Adriano Mixinge
The military question lies at the heart of the Franco-African relation
Interview with Bernard Mouralis
Interrogations of the black world
Interview with Philippe Dewitte
In post-colonialism, there is the question of decentring
interview with Abdelwahab Meddeb
L iterature and postcolony
Lydie Moudileno
Verbal Jousting : Postcolonialism
Adele King

n°29 -June 2000
Music and Showbiz

Editorial

n°30 - September 2000
Rwanda 2000

Editorial
Interview with Samba Félix N'Diaye
For a desirable Africa
Eugène Ebodé and Jean-Luc Raharimanana
"Rwanda taught me to call the monsters by their name"
Interview with Boubacar Boris Diop
"We were under the moral obligation to go through with it"
Interview with Nocky Djedanoum and Maïmouna Coulibaly
How to reconnect with the young people?
Interview with François Woukoache

n°31 - October 2000
Tracks for Benin

Editorial
Copyist intellectuals
Interview with Gaston Zossou
"Those who detect a pessimistic view of Africa are mistaken"
Interview with Ahmadou Kourouma
Beninese democracy
Huenumadji Afan

n°32 - November 2000
African Comics

Editorial
An inventory of the comic strip in Africa
by Hilaire Mbiye Lumbala
Africa in the European comic book: a setting!
Interview with Michel Pierre

n°33 - December 2000
West African Hunters

Editorial

Interview with Ananias Leki Dago
Interview with Moufida Tlatli

n°34 -January 2001
Black Brazil

Editorial

n°35 - February 2001
Masculine Feminine

Editorial

The question of gender : Masculine & feminine
by Bessora

Twenty years after Mariama Bâ, a new generation of women writers
by Odile Cazenave

"One day, people are going to manage simply to say : I am what I am"
Interview with Maryse Condé

Male and Female in the so-called modern couple,
by Sami Tchak

Women and men in black African film
by Olivier Barlet

Is Woman only a woman?
by Tanella Boni

Women in movement in Nuruddin Farah's writing
by Abdourahman A. Waberi

BATS AND GIRL-FRIENDS
Interview with Barbara, an Ivoirian transvestite

n°36 - March 2001
Culture in Gabon ?

Editorial

The revival of Gabonese cinema
by Imunga Ivanga

n°37 - April 2001
The Role of Music in Black Film

Editorial

Music, a multiform character
by Jean-Servais Bakyono

The Woman, a liberating figure
by Jean-Servais Bakyono

African cinema beyond the musical
by Michel Amarger

n°38 - May 2001
MASA 2001: the Living Arts in Africa

Editorial

"They didn't think that we represented the Congo"
Interview with Duran Boundzimbou, choreographer

"You wouldn't believe it if you saw the room we rehearsed this show in!"
Interview with Sylvain Zabli

POINT OF VIEW: "Does an "Ivoirian identity" work in with the Ivoirian culture?"
by Gerald Arnaud

"There's no point in denying outside influences. It's better to work around them".
Interview with Ariry Andriamoratsiresy, Choreographer

n°39 - June 2001
African Photograph(er)s

Editorial

Lomé's street photographers have got the blues
By Guy Hersant

The photographic studio : a social testing--ground
By Jean-François Werner

Photojournalism in Benin
By Monique Phoba

Koudou, the foiled-tographer
by Ananias Leki, Ivoirian photographer

"You have to be inside something to change it"
Interview with Simon Njami

Nigeria: the photographic giant
by Erika Nimis

" I HAVE TO BE A JACK-OF-ALL-TRADES "
Interview with Beninese photographer Erick Ahounou

THE OSCURA PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS IN MALI
By Elisabeth Towns

n°40 - September 2001
A New South-Africa ?

Editorial

The ever-present past
by Sabine Cessou

The world: an opening and escape route
by Sabine Cessou

Jazz: new wave

From press photography to art photography

Johannesburg… to… Yeoville…
A… taxi… journey……………………………………………………
By Clifford A Charles

"White audiences don't want to see politically committed theatre anymore"
Interview with Vanessa Cooke, director of The Laboratory

"I see stories everywhere"
Interview with Zakes Mda

"It's not a question of Africa or America"
Interview with the saxophonist Zim Ngqawana

Mickey Dube, a "disgusted" filmmaker

Theatre
The Market Theatre isn't what it used to be

"It took me a long time to take possession of myself"
A meeting with the composer Paul Hanmer.

"Freedom on paper"
A meeting with filmmaker Zola Maseko

The TaXi Collection: a real boost for South African artists

Jesus Christ, a woman
Tracey Rose, video artist

The group still comes first
Interview with Peter McKenzie, photographer

" Are Western criteria applicable in Africa ? "
Interview with Stephen Hobbs, artist, curator, produce

White Films About Black People But Only For White People

Was the slate really wiped clean after apartheid?

n°41 - October 2001
Africanity : questions and issues

Editorial

Americans of African Descent : Names and Identities
by Anne Crémieux

African filmmakers' new strategies
by Olivier Barlet

Africanity and contemporary creation
by Sylvie Chalaye

For a roaming Africanity
Interview with Koulsy Lamko

Non-African Africanity
Interview with Blaise Patrix and Kaïdin Monique Le Houelleur

n°42 - November 2001
Contemporary African Dance

Editorial

n°43 - December 2001
Revisiting the Colony

Editorial

Time for History
by Boniface Mongo-Mboussa

From human zoos to colonial apotheoses: the era of exhibiting the Other
by Pascal Blanchard, Nicolas Bancel, and Sandrine Lemaire

Decolonisation and continuity
Interview with Jacques Chevrier

Colonial memory in Kappata's painting
by Virginie Andriamirado

From miscegenation phobia to ambivalence in film
by Olivier Barlet

Questioning traditional values
Interview with Ludovic Emane Obiang

n°44 - January 2002
Black New York

Editorial

Little Senegal: Africa in Harlem
by Marième O. Daff

A divided America
Interview with Rachid Bouchareb, director of "Little Senegal"

n°45 - February 2002
Film: the African exception

Editorial

The African exception
By Olivier Barlet

Improvising the intimate
Interview with Zeka Laplaine

(Paris : xy)
by Zeka Laplaine (DRC/France)

Immatriculation temporaire
By Gahité Fonfana (Guinea/France)

"I'm based in Paris, but live in Conakry "
Interview with Gahité Fofana

Daresalam
By Issa Serge Coelo (Chad)

Bintou
by Fanta Régina Nacro (Burkina Faso)

"The truth can't harm a friendship"
Interview with Régina Fanta Nacro

The Odoutan phenomenon
By Olivier Barlet

Guerrilla filmmaking
Interview with Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda

n°46 - Marsh 2002
Congolese Renaissance

Editorial