Dan Moshenberg

Jan 27, 2025 | africasacountry.com | Florian Bobin |Dan Moshenberg

From the world’s biggest music stages, which she toured for over two decades, to the severity of the Italian and Belgian prisons, Malian singer Rokia Traoré has seen her world collapse. After spending over six months in detention between Rome and Brussels, she was finally released on January 22.

Oct 30, 2023 | africasacountry.com | Dan Moshenberg

Once again, a Kenyan athlete has broken a major record in the world of athletics. Racing in Chicago in early October, Kelvin Kiptum shattered the men’s marathon world record, breaking the previous mark of Kenya’s “philosopher-king of running” Eliud Kipchoge by more than half a minute. A stunning achievement, Kiptum’s performance was not an outlier on this year’s athletics scene.

May 3, 2023 | africasacountry.com | Tabara Korka Ndiaye |Rama Salla Dieng |Dan Moshenberg

When you hold Khady Sylla’s 1992 novel,  Le Jeu de la Mer (published in the Encres noires collection of L’Harmattan Paris), it is the black and white image of Khady at the back of the book that first catches your attention. Her gaze is captivating and mysterious. She wears discreet lipstick, a shaved head, and large hoop earrings. You imagine this photo in color because Khady’s writing is sparkling, sublime, and unexpected. What words then inhabit this 29-year-old young woman when her novel appears?