'Noire': Graphic storytelling show remembers rights activist Claudette Colvin
Noire is an onstage graphic storytelling performance directed by Lucie Nicolas from Collectif F71. Adapted from a book by French author Tania de Montaigne, the show tells the story of Claudette Colvin...
View ArticleNatacha Atlas: engaging dystopia on new album Strange Days
Natacha Atlas began exploring jazz and Middle Eastern melodies on her 2015 album Myriad Road with Franco-Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf. She goes one step further on Strange Days, co-written and...
View ArticleWhen the G8 became the G7
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about the G7. There’s “On This Day”, great music, and of course, the new quiz question. Just click on the arrow in the photo...
View ArticleCream drummer Ginger Baker dies at 80
Legendary British drummer Ginger Baker, a founding member of the band Cream, has died at the age of 80.
View ArticleMona Lisa returns to renovated home in the Louvre museum
The Mona Lisa has returned to its place in the Louvre museum after renovations in the room where it is usually displayed were finished.
View ArticleProust’s self-promoting letters fail to sell at Paris auction
Letters showing how Marcel Proust waged a charm offensive to get glowing reviews and win France's top literary prize failed to sell at a Paris auction Monday.
View ArticleFrench film director 'made mistakes' but firmly denies new rape allegations
French film director Luc Besson on Monday denied raping or drugging a young actress -- the first time the maker of "The Fifth Element" has spoken publicity about the sex allegations against him.
View ArticleOpera last heard by Louis XVI before he lost his head to be staged in Versailles
The neglected opera Richard the Lionheart is returning to Versailles on Thursday, more than two centuries after it first echoed around the palace's walls. The opera is most famous for the popular air...
View ArticleLiterary renaissance grips Mosul in Iraq
Literature and poetry are regaining ground in the Iraqi city of Mosul two years after its brutal occupation by the Islamic State armed group that branded artists as criminals.
View ArticleAlana collection works on display in Paris for the first time
One of the lesser known but richer private collections of works from the Italian Gothic and Renaissance periods in the world, is in Paris at the Jacquemart-André Museum-Collection. 75 works from the...
View ArticleGhana's Pat Thomas still living the highlife
Dubbed "the golden voice of West Africa" Pat Thomas embodied the glory days of Ghanaian highlife in the 60s and 70s alongside the great Ebo Taylor. The music fell out of fashion in the 80s but Thomas...
View ArticleDeforestation in Kenya
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about the forest in Kenya known as the country’s “water tower”. There’s “On This Day”, new club members to welcome, great music,...
View ArticleOum brings Moroccan music to a new horizon
Moroccan artist Oum was invited to the Rio Loco festival in Toulouse, southwestern France, to present her third album Daba. RFI's SessionLab met her.
View ArticleLyon: France's gastronomy capital is dishy in more ways than one
Say French cuisine, and you may think of state-of-the-art dishes prepared by eccentric chefs in luxurious kitchens. But modern French gastronomy is actually a 20th-century phenomenon and Lyon is said...
View ArticleMeet the women bringing Australia’s indigenous culture to Paris [with video]
Five Aboriginal artists from the Bábbarra Women’s Centre in Maningrida in the north of Australia came to Paris, for the first time, to preside over the official opening of an exhibition featuring...
View ArticleRaashan Ahmad: bringing light into the darkness
Raashan Ahmad is an American DJ, MC and hip hop artist with a big heart and a sharp mind. A thought-provoking rapper whose latest album The Sun explores joy and pain, hope and despair: the loss of his...
View ArticleOn the trail of poet Arthur Rimbaud in Charleville-Mézières [Video]
The poet Arthur Rimbaud was born in Charleville-Mézières, in eastern France, on 20 October 1854. To give his poetry a new spark of life, the town created a Rimbaud City Trail made of 11 murals....
View ArticleHelping out in Nigeria
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about the organization in northeast Nigeria founded to help victims of violence. There’s a very surprising story about climate...
View ArticleExploring the best little museums in Paris
Discover a new side of Paris, hidden in plain sight. From hunting spoils, to old phonographs, private gardens and much more, The Little(r) Museums of Paris is full of interesting facts about the...
View ArticleFrom Lyon to Los Angeles: the house where Hollywood was born
As Francis Ford Coppola recieves an honorary award in Lyon for the eleventh edition of the Lumière Festival, RFI visits the very spot where cinema, as we know it, was born.
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