4.Parlons-nous tous "l'africain" ?

Article paru dans Jeune Afrique ce matin

"Une récente étude publiée dans la revue scientifique américaine Science présente l’Afrique comme le berceau de toutes les langues modernes. Une hypothèse qui ravive le débat sur l’existence potentielle d’une langue originelle. Et si toutes les langues provenaient d’une même et unique langue ancestrale ? Du mythe biblique de Babel, qui impute la diversité des langues à un châtiment divin, aux hypothèses scientifiques, le débat a fait couler beaucoup d’encre. D’où ce verdict de la Société linguistique de Paris dans ses statuts de 1866 : toute discussion sur l’origine des langues est bannie."

3. Can Optic Cables Predict Economic Shifts?

From the Timbuktu Chronicles blog.

Om Malik at GigaOm writes:
According to TeleGeography, a research firm that tracks the global business, there are about 12 cables either in planning stages or under construction that will connect Africa to the rest of the planet. Those connections will have a theoretical capacity of over 13 Terabits per second, and construction is estimated to cost more than $3 billion...Building new cables is the equivalent of adding new roads, new shipping lanes or flights. The undersea fibers of today are what sea trading routes were in the past — an indicator of future economic activity and the subsequent boom...(continue reading)

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Q. & A.: Filmmaker’s Path From Rwanda to Tribeca

By FELICIA R. LEE (NY Times)

“Grey Matter,” a feature film from the writer and director Kivu Ruhorahoza, represents the Tribeca Film Festival’s first movie from Rwanda by a Rwandan filmmaker. The film, which has its world premiere on April 21, blends fantasy and reality in its portrayal of the aftermath of the genocide in Rwanda as seen through the eyes of a novice director struggling to make a film called “The Cycle of the Cockroach.” Mr. Ruhorahoza, 28, spoke recently to Arts Beat about the inspiration for the movie and its title, how Flaubert and Norman Mailer triggered his interest in storytelling, and why he chose filmmaking over practicing law. These are excerpts from that conversation.

How did “Grey Matter” come about?

I wanted to start with a short story about two siblings who are experiencing trauma. Then I wrote another story about a madman who might have been involved in the killing of the parents of those siblings. It became one really long story. It was really, really experimental and not easy to understand. I tried to raise money. It became really frustrating. It had some elements of my own life. I was suffering to tell the story. So why not write about me suffering to tell the story? I wrote the part about a filmmaker who is not able to make a film that is so dear to his heart.

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stages of decay (c'est pas de moi, et c'est un lien)