Apr. 02 2022 / 8pm
Live
"When I went to see Souleymane Diamanka's new show, I didn't know what to expect. I made a journey, a beautiful journey. A universal journey. An inner journey that brought me back to childhood and opened my eyes, another reading, another vision of the world. I had the feeling to come out of it better. The controlled calm that animates it is like the upper earth layer, which protects from a magma of emotions ready to gush like geysers between the cracks that a wise man lets appear. This show has no age, it is that of a telluric poetry: it speaks as much about Hiphop culture as about the origin of the World, it speaks about his father and a Fulani village, it speaks as much about Love as about the lightness of Being... Souleymane speaks. He is the word of all those who are silent.
Because with a deep and steady voice, he carries us along like a current carry you, because with elegance, he juggles with words like with balls of paper or glass marbles, because he will surprise you even more than you imagine, if you are lucky enough to learn that he is playing near you, go see Souleymane Diamanka's new show without hesitation." Charlélie COUTURE.
The tradition of orality flows in the veins of the poet Souleymane Diamanka. His poetic and metaphorical texts were the subject of a first album, entitled L'Hiver Peul (2007). After J'écris en français dans une langue étrangère and Ecrire à voix haute en co-écriture, Habitant de nulle part, originaire de partout is his third book.