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MASA Festival in Ivory Coast: storytelling, theater and puppets

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From left to right: Yacouba Magassouba, Fatou Sy, Abdon Fortune Khoumba, Salif Berthé, known as "the Storyteller Bird".

© Guillaume Ploquin / RFI

By: Pascal Paradou

1 min

For this third program recorded on the occasion of the twelfth edition of MASA (Abidjan Market for Performing Arts), theater is honored with four artists whose plays deal with very current themes. 

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- Abdon Fortuné Koumbha

, actor, storyteller and director of

, in Dolisie, the third largest city in Congo-Brazzaville).

Also director of the Dol'En Scène Festival.

His show, Rhapsodie, deals with the theme of migration. 

- Yacouba Magassouba

, artistic director of 

a troupe of puppeteers for the show

a tale in French and Bambara that highlights the tradition of orality to the rhythm of the balafon and the djembe.

Also with

 , known as the "bird-storyteller", author and storyteller of the show Le Chatpilgrim from the Nama company. 

- Fatou Sy,

Ivorian author.

In her show “The Neverending Story”, it is about social violence and the suffering of women who have been victims of sexual violence. 

Program recorded on the occasion of the 2022 edition of

in Abidjan. 

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