Africolor

• A mirror of the hopes, struggles, and refrains of the 1990s, during which Africolor nights were the crucible for so many artistic careers.

Here, a Danyèl Waro; there, an Angélique Kidjo; elsewhere, a Femi Kuti joining the table of Malian divas Oumou Sangaré and Nahawa Doumbia.

The Christmas nights at TGP accompanied a decade of pride in African music that thrilled the souls and bodies of a generation whose children now claim their heritage.

Afro-descendant, from here and not elsewhere, these evenings assert constantly reconfigured identities, reshuffled by musical flows coming as much from West Africa, from Johann Sebastian Bach, as from funk and blues.

Who better than Nina Tonji could take up the gauntlet and foster dialogue between Africolor generations by revisiting standards, anthems, lullabies, and praises?

Equally at home with Mozart as with Toto Guillaume, she is the musical director of this Afro-ascendant creation, surrounded by wordsofAzia, founder of Bhété Jazz, and many others.

They sketch a new continent, map the musical and spiritual crossroads that shape them, shedding both East and West, North and South: feet in Seine-Saint-Denis, head in the harmony of the spheres, the skins of drums and bodies stretched towards a beautiful and simple idea: we are here and we will not move.