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Akar, July 4 (APS) – French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday appointed Senegalese architect Ngone Fall as general commissioner for the Season of African Cultures, named '' Saison Afrique 2020 '', announced on Wednesday. , the website of Radio France Internationale (RFI).
Ms. Fall will have the task of "discovering in France, the image of an Africa in motion and changing," says a statement of the French Minister of Culture, Françoise Nyssen.
The '' Africa Season 2020 '' initiative, launched by French President Emmanuel Macron, will be implemented by the French Institute in 2020.
French President Emmanuel Macron announced end of 2017 the holding of this event of several months during his speech made in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, declining its strategy to relaunch relations between France and Africa.
"It is about deploying a cultural and artistic strategy that puts Africa back in the center, we need Africans to speak for themselves about Africa," the French president said.
[19659004] Ngoné Fall, 51, recently participated in the 13th Biennale of Contemporary African Art in Dakar, called "Dak'Art", especially in "Meetings and Exchanges." She was president of jury at the 12th edition of Dak'Art, in 2016.
She is a curator of exhibitions in several international events, including '' Les Rencontres de la photographs de Bamako '', among others.
Ngoné Fall, intellectual and co-founder of a platform in new media and visual arts, was born in Dakar and graduated at the age of 26 in architecture from the Special School of Architecture of Paris. 19659004]
The nominatio n de Ngoné Fall comes after that of the Senegalese economist and writer Felwine Sarr, appointed last March by President Emmanuel Macron for the restitution of the African heritage in France.
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