Africultures

Africultures is a publication of arts and culture about and from Africa and its diasporas. Based in Paris, it was founded in 1997 by journalists and academics such as Gérald Arnaud, Olivier Barlet, Tanella Boni, Sylvie Chalaye, Fayçal Chehat, Soeuf Elbadawi, Boniface Mongo-Mboussa, etc. The magazine is managed by the association Africultures and it is published by L'Harmattan. Since 2012 the documentation produced by the magazine and its database made of over 80,000 biographies of artists and description of books, music, films and institutions has been released under the open Creative Commons attribution share alike license. It has become one of the leading portals for information on African topics on the Internet.

Africultures
EditorOlivier Barlet
CategoriesLiterary magazine
FrequencyQuarterly
PublisherL'Harmattan
First issue1997
CompanyAssociation Africultures
CountryFrance
Based inParis
LanguageFrench
Websitewww.africultures.com (http://www.spla.pro)
ISSN1276-2458

Activities

Every issue of the magazine Africultures is devoted to a specific topic. It includes news and reviews of events, books, music, films, theatre and dance. The session "diaspos" is focused on African migrations.

Africultures maintains an online archive of artists, films, music, books and institutions based in or working in Africa and the Caribbean. The multilingual archive released with the Creative Commons attribution share alike license is on the Africultures website[1] and on SPLA Sud Planète,[2] a joint multilingual collaboration among international partners.[3] SPLA Sud Planète has produced national portals of cultural information for Burkina Faso,[4] Mali[5] and Cameroon.[6]

Books

Africultures also publishes books.

  • Ahmed Rahal, La communauté noire de Tunis, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2000
  • Djibril DIOP Mambéty, Momar Nar Séne, [jibril Diop Mambety: La caméra au bout du nez, Paris, 2001
  • Sylvie Chalaye, Nègres en images, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2002
  • Ange-Séverin Malanda, Michel Leiris et la théorie des arts africains, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2003
  • Lucie Touya, Mami Wata: La sirène et les peintres populaires de Kinshasa, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2004
  • Valérie Thiers-Thiam, A chacun son griot, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2005
  • Yacouba Konaté, La Biennale de Dakar: Pour une esthétique de la création africaine contemporaine. Tête à tête avec Adorno, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2009
  • Tanella Boni, La diversité du monde, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2010
  • Afriphoto, a collection of books about African photographers

References
  1. "Africultures - Le site des cultures africaines". africultures.com. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  2. "SPLA - Portal to cultural diversity". spla.pro. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  3. "SPLA - Presentation : Partners". spla.pro.
  4. "Burkinacultures - Portail de la diversité culturelle". burkinacultures.net.
  5. "Culturesmali - Portail de la diversité culturelle". culturesmali.net. Archived from the original on 1 October 2011. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
  6. "Kamercultures - Portail de la diversité culturelle". kamercultures.net. Archived from the original on 28 February 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
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