https://calenda-formation.labocleo.org Lodel 1.0 https://calenda-formation.labocleo.org/731730 https://calenda-formation.labocleo.org/731730 Mon, 20 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0100 French President Emmanuel Macron announced on 3rd July 2018 in Lagos that a Special Season would be organized in France, from June to December 2020, to mark a renewed partnership with Africa, a “varied, strong and diverse continent that will play a part in our shared future”. Even if this cultural focus cannot be abstracted from a broader geopolitical agenda marred by controversial presidential declarations, it nevertheless has the potential to offer a somewhat different coverage of the continent. One can only hope that it avoids the temptation to officially “curate into being” “exceptional” artists (Dovey), tapping into the all-too-familiar image of Africa as “the supreme receptacle of the West’s obsession with, and circular discourse about, the facts of ‘absence,’ ‘lack,’ and ‘non-being,’ of identity and difference” (Mbembe). Appel à contribution Aix-en-Provence (13621 CEDEX 1) celine.guilleux@openedition.org (Céline Guilleux)