Paru le 02/07/2019 | Broché 152 pages
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preface by Manda Tchebwa
Didier Bokelo takes us through two parallel universes of the « man » and « the artist » Papa Wemba. In his margin of creative freedom, which is also that of the imaginary, the artist deploys all his inventiveness and is generous with respect to his fans and fellow musicians. Cannot be worthy of such a beam of sympathy that an artist who will have marked singularly the spirits of his time, as much as time itself has allowed him to mature his art for the good of his community. Papa Wemba turns out to be in the memory of our most tender feelings, the most friendliest and the most smiling ; he is the poet of our faith and our hopes. In his small urban village Molokaï « in the heart of Matonge », it is said to be steeped in kindness and wisdom, because he was « the customary chief ». In this beautiful world of good living, juvenile to the end of adventure, he embodied the hope of a whole youth who in his footsteps, suddenly began to invent the Eden of youth rocked for more than three decades by texts and melodies carved in sound marble. Papa Wemba was one of the most contagious optimists the perpetually adolescent soul.
Didier Bokelo Bile is an agronomist engineer of the University of Kinshasa and Specialist in Remote Sensing and Cartography of the Regional School postgraduate degree in Planning and Management of Forests and Tropical Territories (ERAIFT) of Kinshasa. National expert, he is currently a researcher in modeling economic impact on land use. Author and co-author of several scientific productions, he participated in the 21st International Conference of the United Nations on Climate Change, held in France, in Paris in 2015.
