Souleymane Diamanka, Fulani diamond

SOULEYMANE DIAMANKA © ISABELLE DOHIN

By: Yasmine Chouaki

2 min

Far from the world and its fury, he writes, never folds, travels as a nomad, having no attachment except in love and poetry.

We had already welcomed the poet slammer Souleymane Diamanka, 10 years ago.

In G Major remembers it and would take up (with you) a little lesson in poetic music theory in the land of a bad student, necessarily gifted.

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In his square one, there are Senegal (his native land), France and Bordeaux (his host land) and above all a family treasure bequeathed by Boubacar, his father.

This Treasure - which is the Peul culture - regularly and far from any trade in small, medium and large writing baobabs, in the form of hybrid albums (The Fulani winter, Being human otherwise) of collection (

Habitant from nowhere, from everywhere

that has just been released) or of collaboration full of otherness (with Kenny Allen, Bertrand Cantat or even Alain Mabanckou).

Souleymane Diamanka

, the return from Dakar to Bordeaux (this inkwell port) ... it's now.

Souleymane Diamanka's musical choices

Souleymane Diamanka

The poets hide to write

Baba Maal 

Diahowo

Souleymane Diamanka

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