Real, traditional, seductive and communicative music by MIDJOUBA from HEVE, a suburb of Grand-Popo, delivered the goods on Saturday night re concert of the month.
Midjouba, a folkloric group founded in 2006 presented a great show that attracted thousands of souls from the beginning to the end.
Midjouba, in their concert, tried to send a message to the younger generation about the danger of severing our ancestral link by importing and mixing too much of western tradition into our … Lue lisää
The Finnish-Beninese Friendship Society arranges it’s annual autumn soirée at Harjun nuorisotalo in Helsinki on Saturday 12th November. A great opportunity to meet friends and to participate in helping the schools and schoolchildren in Grand Popo!
La Francophonie, the community of French speaking people, is worldwide. French takes different forms all over the globe as over 250 million people speak it as either first or second language. For those of us who have learned to speak French in Europe, the Beninese version of the language has some interesting elements. Let’s take a look at the French spoken in Grand-Popo’s streets.
Although I suppose that “bonjour” is probably the most well-known French word in the world, … Lue lisää
Text by Matti-Juhani Karila (translated and abbreviated by Anna Ovaska)
I am not a photographer, but I’ve gotten hooked on the mysterious enchantment of photos – on this ”one-hundredth part of a second which makes a blink of an eye eternal”, as American poet Hart Grane described the essence of photography in 1923.
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I can’t imagine that any of you who read this article would travel to Africa without a camera, not even painters whose predecessors in the … Lue lisää
