MEDI1TV Afrique : #Chronique_culture du 31/01/2025 - 31/01/2025
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00:00Welcome to Medihan TV and to this cultural chronicle about the author, actor and director
00:18Dorsi Rougamba, who is here in Marrakech at the Festival du Livre Africain de Marrakech.
00:25Dorsi Rougamba, thank you very much for accepting our invitation.
00:34You are here in Marrakech at the Festival du Livre Africain de Marrakech.
00:38First of all, a word about your presence in Morocco and this festival.
00:42It's a pleasure, it's a pleasure to come back to Morocco.
00:45It's not the first time, but it's the first time at this festival.
00:49I am very happy that they support me every year.
00:52It's a great pleasure, an honor.
00:54Dorsi Rougamba, you are an author, actor and director.
01:00You are Rwandan.
01:02You wrote a book about the genocide of Rwanda.
01:12Writing, playing, being a director, so much discipline to recreate yourself.
01:20Yes, but I started theater long before the genocide.
01:26Except that after the genocide, it became a necessary ritual for me.
01:35I'm not talking about therapy, because I don't really like to mix art and therapy.
01:40There are treatments.
01:42On the other hand, it's a relationship to the world, writing.
01:48In any case, it's mine.
01:50I really like to be on stage.
01:52I really like to create shows.
01:54And writing, it's been going on for 30 years.
01:58So I hope it will continue.
02:00So 30 years in the world of art, 30 years as an African, as I said.
02:07This Africa that is being recreated.
02:10Do you think we still have trouble today, that this 21st century,
02:13we haven't thought about all our pleas, all our pains,
02:19and that Africa continues to rebuild and recreate itself?
02:24Because I like this expression.
02:26Yes, but at the same time, African literature is very diversified today.
02:33There are many subjects.
02:35I think it's a continent that is also crossed by a lot of drama,
02:40and in a certain way, writers belong to their time.
02:44Sometimes we write about tragedies, but they don't belong to history yet.
02:50They are the news in which we live.
02:55And we have to belong to our time.
03:00All we can hope for is that our works, which are archives,
03:05will allow the next generation to rethink themselves
03:11and perhaps to learn from them,
03:13to allow Africa to be on a different rhythm,
03:16on a different current,
03:19and simply to overcome these latent conflicts.
03:24Dorsi Rangoma, I was telling you,
03:27today, this African literature, which is amazing, which wins prizes,
03:34why does it still have a hard time being distributed, even on our continent?
03:39This is a big problem, it's true.
03:42We have a lot of extremely talented writers,
03:45but an industry of books that is not yet up to its own talents,
03:49the talents that exist on this continent.
03:51And this is an entire ecosystem that we lack,
03:54because we need publishing houses, we need distribution circuits,
03:58we need libraries, we really need...
04:01So, this is one of the big problems,
04:05which means that we find much more African literature in Western metropolises,
04:11much more than we find on our continent,
04:15which means that very often we have the impression that African writers are out of place too,
04:20because of this.
04:22And this is something that absolutely needs to be remedied.
04:26Our populations need to have access to books, to African literature.
04:33This is also a way to integrate African populations,
04:36because from the moment people share the same memory,
04:40share the same story, the same continental novel,
04:44they become one people.
04:47And this is a fundamental issue.
04:49So, Dorsi Rogomba, today you are in Marrakech to talk about you,
04:53to talk about your book, your literature, your word, M-A-U-X, with words.
05:00What do you want to say to the Moroccan public?
05:04A lot, to share, but a lot of beauty too, because it is poetry too.
05:16Literature would not exist if there were no readers.
05:20So, I also come to the meeting of this audience,
05:23so that we can get to know each other.
05:25And this seems very important to me.
05:28It's another way too.
05:31I also come to tell them…
05:36I wrote a book that can seem…
05:41Let's talk about Rwanda.
05:43And very often, Rwanda is associated with genocide.
05:46We have the impression that we come like Cassandra,
05:49to announce bad news.
05:51But it's more a book about life.
05:53In fact, in reality, because the subtitle of this book is called L'Etre Absent.
05:58I speak to people who are no longer with us,
06:01but who are still with us in the spirit,
06:04to bring them back to life.
06:08And literature offers these miraculous, symbolic weapons,
06:14which allow us to understand how sacred life is,
06:19and the beauty of life itself.
06:21So, what I come to share with them is a hymn of life.
06:25Thank you very much, in any case, Dorsi Rogomba, for this life lesson.
06:29Thank you very much for accepting our invitation.
06:31And thank you for being an author, actor and director in Rwanda.
06:35And that you are in Marrakech,
06:36as part of the Festival du Livre Africain dans la Vilogue.
06:39Thank you again.
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