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!
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A Crash Course in Beninese French: Part I
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
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Look at me! The enchantment of photographs
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
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KAKA
KAKA-KAKA. Félicitations !! félicitations !! is the single french word pronounced by a great audience to congratulate Janne Storm, Felix Agossou and Gabriel Teiko, three resident artists in Villa Karo who performed wonderfully on the stage of the French Cultural Centre in Cotonou on Friday 30th September.
They preceded the main event of the night LA NUIT DE LA PAROLE by association KATOULATI. Same scenario took place in Grand-Popo on the red terrace stage of Villa Karo … Lue lisää