The 50th anniversary of the independence of several African countries provides an opportunity to appraise their situations and relations with the rest of the world. Their Diasporas are striving to improve the continent's future, speaking out on African issues from their adopted countries.
In this context, Pitcho Womba Konga and African-Belgian artists wish to open a dialogue on the links that they themselves maintain with their ancestral continent, focusing on four main subjects:
- interculturality and the management of plural memories, which normally in Western societies are fixed;
- citizen integration: the question of living together happily or unhappily - either has been felt and expressed at some point by just about everyone - given the diversity of cultural origins;- intergenerational relations within migrant families: memory transmission, upbringing, vague, absent or insufficiently valued parental models that cause youths severe identity problems;
- presumed identity, or how to overcome the ‘crise de nègre' (‘nigga crisis') and reconcile Congo and Belgium.
‘Urban music' (soul, rap, R&B, funk, slam, reggae) will be the medium. It's already a kind of lingua franca of the generations in question and will appeal to a much wider audience through: