IVORIAN EVENING WITH DOBET GNAHORE 11 March 2008 at 7 p.m., Room I Evening organized by the Division for Gender Equality in collaboration with the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.

 
Dobet Gnahoré – Ivorian singer, dancer and percussionist — sung Mandinga melodies to Congolese rumbas, and took us everywhere from the Ivorian ziglibiti to the Cameroonian bikoutsi, from Ghanaian highlife to Zulu choirs, carried along by colorful and varied jazz tunes. In her songs, Dobet Gnahoré denounces the pillage of the African continent and conveys ironic messages about polygamy (“And what if women began to have many husbands, what would these men think of it?”). Dobet sings in different African languages: Bete, Fon, Baoule, Lingala, Malinke, Mina and Bambara. Her group is composed of Nabil Mehrezi, Colin Laroche de Féline and Boris Tchango.