Lisette Lombé, powerful words for the defense of minorities

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Belgian slammer Lisette Lombé.

© Editions Alcock

By: Pascal Paradou

31 min

Slammer, writer, committed poet, but also host of writing workshops, the Belgo-Congolese Lisette Lombé publishes "Brûler, brûller brûller".  

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Thanks to this collection of anti-racist and feminist texts, she tries to "connect with the pulsations of the world", to denounce violence and unpunished crimes.

She talks to us about her “organic” relationship to words and writing. 

Lisette Lombé will take part in the second edition of the Contemporary Literature Festival “Burglaries”, from February 25 to March 1, 2021, at the Pompidou Library in Paris.

The meeting will be broadcast live, on the

festival site

, Friday February 26, 2021, at 7 p.m. 

“To burn, to burn to burn”

is published by the editions of L'Iconoclaste.

► And in the Chronicle Ailleurs, spotlight on the

poetic consultations

, initiated by the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, which are spreading in Africa.

Delphine Youbou, director of the Siamois Expression theater company in Côte d'Ivoire, presents the project to us. 

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