{"id":40771,"date":"2020-03-25T12:29:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T11:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/1989-manu-dibango-relates-his-debut-in-the-documentary-paris-cest-lafrique\/"},"modified":"2021-02-03T12:07:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T11:07:01","slug":"1989-manu-dibango-relates-his-debut-in-the-documentary-paris-cest-lafrique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/1989-manu-dibango-relates-his-debut-in-the-documentary-paris-cest-lafrique\/","title":{"rendered":"1989: Manu Dibango relates his debut in the documentary &#8216;Paris c&#8217;est l&#8217;Afrique&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  class=\"pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XC9lTIYgz_Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4><b>PAM gets you to discover a first excerpt from the documentary film series <\/b><b><i>Paris c\u2019est l\u2019Afrique<\/i><\/b><b> (&#8220;Paris is Africa&#8221;) that French journalist Philippe Conrath directed in&#8230; 1989! Here, Manu relates his professional debut in Paris. Tomorrow, you can see him in the company of the band Les T\u00eates Br\u00fbl\u00e9es. The full series will soon be available on PAM for you to discover.<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1989, Manu Dibango was already \u2013\u00a0and had been for a while\u00a0\u2013 the key figure of Afrocentric music in France. Quite naturally he is featured in this series of four documentary films untitled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paris c\u2019est l&#8217;Afrique<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (4 x 26 min), dedicated to the early stages of Africentric music in France. Philippe Conrath, then journalist for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lib\u00e9ration<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, was about to leave the daily newspaper when a producer asked him to make a film about African music. This project would turn out to be the culmination of the research he had been doing since he first set foot in Africa ten years earlier, before starting to write about Black music (from Africa and America) for the newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film series tells how Afrocentric music had settled in the French soundscape, a phenomenon to which Philippe Conrath and a few others (including <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Radio Nova<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;s H\u00e9lene Lee, J.F. Bizot and R\u00e9my Kolpa Kopoul, but also J.J. Dufayet) contributed to, each in their way. The series, soon to be fully broadcast on PAM, features all those who have since become pillars of Afrocentric music: Youssou N&#8217;Dour, Salif Keita (and his father in the village), Kante Manfila, Fela and his son Femi, Les T\u00eates Br\u00fbl\u00e9es, Tour\u00e9 Kunda, Zao\u2026 And of course their common father, Manu Dibango. He then related his Parisian debut, almost twenty-five years earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With no pretenses, but with good reason, the &#8220;doyen&#8221; explains how the success of the song &#8220;Soul Makossa&#8221; opened many doors: not only for him, but for all the others who arrived in his wake. Here is an excerpt from the episode &#8220;The Pioneers&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read next:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/manu-dibango-hommage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goodbye, Manu! Our tribute to our African uncle<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAM gets you to discover a first excerpt from the documentary film series Paris c\u2019est l\u2019Afrique (&#8220;Paris is Africa&#8221;) that French journalist Philippe Conrath directed in&#8230; 1989! Here, Manu relates his professional debut in Paris. 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