MEDI1TV Afrique : #Chronique_culture du 11-09-24 - 11/09/2024
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00:00Welcome to Mediën TV and the book in this chronicle.
00:13Jacaranda is the name of a tree with delicate violet flowers.
00:17It is also the title of the new book by Gael Fay,
00:20which is one of the events of this literary return.
00:22Already at the head of sales, the second novel by the author,
00:25composer and interpreter, takes place after the genocide of 1994.
00:30The reader discovers Milan, a young Franco-Rwandan
00:34who makes several trips to Kigali, Rwanda,
00:37his mother's homeland.
00:39In this devastated country, in the midst of reconstruction,
00:42Milan will meet four generations and go back with them
00:46the thread of history to break the silence of Rwanda.
00:50I suggest you listen to Gael Fay.
00:52Jacaranda is not a sequel to Petit Pays,
00:56it's like a piece of a puzzle.
00:58As I told you, there is Burundi, Rwanda.
01:02You should know that the borders in this region,
01:04as in many places in Africa,
01:06were created artificially during the Berlin Conference.
01:10And so there were traces of borders
01:12that put populations on both sides.
01:17And it still creates a lot of conflict today.
01:23And it's true that for me,
01:26it was like having two pieces of the same puzzle.
01:29It's also about telling how,
01:31finally, the people of this region are all brothers and sisters,
01:36that the exiles of one day will be the hostages of the next day.
01:41And it's to give a wider picture of reality,
01:48but not to reduce our stories.
01:52To give them a little more scope
01:55and a more global vision of all the stories that irrigate us.
02:02Rwanda has changed.
02:04The fields of ruins have now given way to a modern country
02:07that has been plagued by visitors,
02:09to such an extent that Gaël Faille speaks of a nation-startup
02:12and recalls that 70% of its population was born after the genocide.
02:16He was born before,
02:18and he feels responsible for being the link between these generations.
02:22He was 11 years old when the genocide took place.
02:25He claims not to have participated in the reconstruction effort,
02:28but he saw his parents' generation rebuild the country.
02:31And today, he feels a form of responsibility
02:34to tell the next generation what these years of reconstruction were like.
02:40Let's listen to Gaël Faille.
02:42In this small country, ECB exists,
02:47and I was very uncomfortable with this character,
02:50because I realized that it was the only character
02:54whose fate we did not know at the end of the story.
02:58It was as if I, as a novelist,
03:00had created a character for my own ends,
03:05because it suited me.
03:07And so it raised a question of ethics,
03:11simply because ECB is also the incarnation
03:15of a certain number of women that I know and admire,
03:19and who are important.
03:21And so I didn't want it to be just a used character.
03:28And so I started to take news from ECB
03:32through small notes that I wrote,
03:35without thinking about a novel.
03:38With Jacques Aranda, Gaël Faille signs a second novel,
03:41difficult and violent as much as necessary,
03:43written with the sweetness and tenderness that we know from his author.
03:47When, for his character Milan,
03:49Gaël Faille grew up in a family where silence was a must.
03:53And to understand the story, he turned to literature,
03:56with the success of his first novel.
03:58He realizes that many of his readers discover history
04:02through his words.
04:03In Reécoute, Gaël Faille,
04:05he is the author of Jacques Aranda,
04:07published in the Grasset editions.
04:10When I meet people who have a genocide in their memory,
04:14it's as if we had a form of invisible fraternity,
04:18because we are aware of certain things.
04:22For example, we know that words kill.
04:26Ideology begins with words,
04:30dehumanization begins with words,
04:33and in Rwanda, words killed us first.
04:37So I try to be careful with language,
04:43especially since I find myself in a particular position.
04:47For some people,
04:52I will be their only gateway to this story.
04:58It is a heavy responsibility to carry in a way.
05:05I am a witness, I am not a survivor.
05:13I want to be fair.
05:20I also want to remain a gateway.
05:24Jacques Aranda de Gaël Faille is already selected
05:26for the Renaudot Prize in France.
05:28A successful writer, Gaël Faille is also a singer,
05:31composer and poet.
05:32He is recognized as one of the most promising authors
05:35of his generation.
05:36Only music will be my catharsis,
05:39he says.
05:40Born of a Rwandan mother and a French father,
05:43Gaël Faille spent his childhood in Burundi until 1994,
05:47when the war forced his family to flee the country
05:50to come and exile themselves in the Paris region.
05:52He is 13 years old and must restart from scratch
05:54in an unknown country.
05:56He will then find his salvation in music and writing.
06:00So I suggest you listen to one of his songs,
06:02like a mean Monday.
06:09Chaque dimanche revient ce cafard, un sel sang
06:11Demain, lundi sera méchant
06:13J'vais pas me laisser démonter
06:16Par bad vibes et morosité
06:18Pas s'contenter mais tenter
06:20Sinon tes frères vont t'éveiller
06:22Chauffer, chauffer, bah t'entends
06:25Les pulsations de tes tympans
06:27Chanter, chanter, c'est qu'encore
06:29Ecouter, goûter lundi méchant
06:32Comme un lundi
06:34Comme un lundi
06:36Comme un lundi
06:39Un lundi méchant
06:41Comme un lundi
06:43Comme un lundi
06:46Comme un lundi
06:48Un lundi méchant
06:50Merci chers téléspectateurs pour votre fidélité et l'information.
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07:08Et si tout en pire, espère
07:11Respire
07:13Respire
07:15Respire
07:17Espère
07:18T'as le souffle court
07:19Respire
07:20Quand rien n'est facile
07:21Respire
07:22Même si tu te perds
07:23Respire
07:24Et si tout en pire
07:26Espère