"Afropunk is first and foremost an attitude!"

It is an alternative to the final of the World Cup : l at the 4th edition of the Afropunk festival is held this Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th of July at the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris. The event was created in 2005 in New York. The first concerts in Brooklyn brought together about 100 people, artists and an African-American audience passionate about punk while they were associated with rap and r'n'b.

On the program: a celebration of the scene and black culture alternatives through music but also, fashion, crafts, gastronomy. A desire also to twist the neck to the ideas about black artists irreparably associated with hip-hop and not punk rock or hardcore. Afropunk combines diverstissement and activism, with a slogan "no to sexism, racism, homophobia, grossophobia." A hundred people at the beginning and today thousands of festival-goers in England, France, South Africa and maybe tomorrow in England

Sandra Nkaké, was there in 2015, for the first edition of the Afropunk festival in Paris. In turn singer and mistress of ceremony, it comes to present his third album Tangerine Moon Wishe s. "Sometimes it's jazz, but in the jazz meadow, we're going to tell you that it's not jazz, in pop we're going to tell you that it's not pop … but in it's a little bit all that " explains this artist.

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