Savanna Echo
The pan-African cultural magazine that brings to life the traditions and creations of Africa and the diaspora.
Articles, interviews, reviews, cultural agenda…
Every month, a fresh look at our arts, our memories and our imaginations.
A sound and visual production space serving the African voice.
Recordings, podcasts, montages, audio capsules, musical arrangements…
The studio where today's stories and sounds are born.
Studio Brunus Connect
Bissakou Web Radio
The radio that unites us.
An independent web radio station that gives voice to heritage, creations, rhythms and emotions.
Shows, news flashes, horoscopes, cultural capsules…
Bruno Lengani (Author)
Writer and storyteller
Author of several works including Tales at the Foot of Mount Boulgou, A Concession in Everyday Life and the highly anticipated illustrated tales for children, Bruno Lengani is a committed voice for the promotion of African cultures.
Welcome to AFRO CULTURE SPHERE
The living universe of African voices
AFRO CULTURE SPHERE is a vibrant cultural space that brings together, celebrates, and disseminates the artistic, spiritual, and intellectual riches of Africa and its diaspora.
By exploring this site, you will discover:
– Savane Écho magazine, a monthly showcase of African creativity
– Studio Brunus Connect, a sound production space serving culture
– Web Radio Bissakou, a free, popular and rooted voice
– And the works of Bruno Lengani, writer and artisan of memory🎧📚🎙️ Each page is an open door to a continent in motion, between traditions and modernity.
Alif Naaba
The Barefoot Prince, between guitar and truth
Throughout his concerts, Alif Naaba transforms each stage into an acoustic cocoon, between subdued lighting and acoustic guitar. A simple stool is enough to resonate a soft, deep voice, anchored in the earth.
Nicknamed “the barefoot prince,” Alif blends the delicacy of folk chords with the depth of traditional Mossi rhythms. He doesn't sing to entertain. He sings to uplift, question, and console. His music bridges the gap between silent villages and noisy cities, between the intimate and the universal.
During his performances, he often performs iconic songs like "Wakat" (time), "Sauré" (awakening), and "Soutoubou," a tribute to deep roots and collective memories. Each song becomes a confidence, a nod to an Africa on the move, sometimes wounded, but always standing.
And the audience listens as one would listen to a storyteller or a griot: with their hearts. Young people, old people, artists, all gathered around a true word, music without artifice.
Featured Quote: "I didn't choose to sing. Life gave me a voice." – Alif Naaba.
The SAVANE ÉCHO team / JUNE 15, 2025
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🎭 The Herds, the migration of giants
They walk, slow and majestic. A wicker elephant, a giraffe with fluttering eyelashes, a gorilla of shadows and string... They are not fleeing war or famine, but drought, deforestation, the end of a world. They are puppets. But in their footsteps echoes the cry of a wounded planet.
The Herds ("The Troops") is an extraordinary show. Launched in the spring of 2025, this traveling theater project features giant puppets representing African animals—elephants, antelopes, gorillas, buffalo, crocodiles, and more. Made from wood, natural fibers, and recycled materials, these animated sculptures travel across Europe, carried by puppeteers, dancers, musicians, and volunteers.
From Kinshasa to Stockholm, via Paris, London, Manchester, and Copenhagen, their 20,000 km migration symbolizes the climate emergency. Each stopover city becomes a living theater, blending street art, storytelling, rituals, and citizen participation. In Paris, they crossed the courtyard of the Palais Royal. In London, they danced in front of Tower Bridge. In Manchester, they rocked working-class suburbs with the help of schools and marching bands.
Behind this project are The Walk Productions and the South African company Ukwanda Puppetry, already known for the giant puppet Little Amal. But this time, it's not humans we're defending; it's our fellow animals, our natural memories.
With The Herds, art becomes alert. And in the beauty of the gesture, it is the voice of the living that demands a future.
The SAVANE ÉCHO team / JULY 15, 2025
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The Lyon Dance Biennale 2025
"When contemporary Africa takes the stage"
From September 6 to 28, 2025, the city of Lyon will host a new edition of its famous Dance Biennale, on the evocative theme: Bodies in Resonance.
While this edition promises to be rich and diverse, it is above all the voices from Afro-diasporic backgrounds that are captivating our attention. Artists such as Dorothée Munyaneza (Rwanda/UK), Lia Rodrigues (Brazil), and François Chaignaud, with their Latin American partners, will offer powerful creations where the body becomes memory, song, and resistance.
This edition highlights hybrid forms, blending dance, storytelling, song, and performance. Each gesture seems charged with collective memory, each silence becomes a poetic cry.
💬 “The body remembers. It keeps within itself stories, wounds, hopes.”
— Dorothée Munyaneza, guest artist
🗓 In Savane Écho – September 2025, we will return in detail to one of these spectacles, seen from the stands in Lyon but heard with the ears of the savannah.
The SAVANE ÉCHO team / July 25, 2025
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The Lyon Dance Biennale 2025
"When contemporary Africa takes the stage"
From September 6 to 28, 2025, the city of Lyon will host a new edition of its famous Dance Biennale, on the evocative theme: Bodies in Resonance.
While this edition promises to be rich and diverse, it is above all the voices from Afro-diasporic backgrounds that are captivating our attention. Artists such as Dorothée Munyaneza (Rwanda/UK), Lia Rodrigues (Brazil), and François Chaignaud, with their Latin American partners, will offer powerful creations where the body becomes memory, song, and resistance.
This edition highlights hybrid forms, blending dance, storytelling, song, and performance. Each gesture seems charged with collective memory, each silence becomes a poetic cry.
💬 “The body remembers. It keeps within itself stories, wounds, hopes.”
— Dorothée Munyaneza, guest artist
🗓 In Savane Écho – September 2025, we will return in detail to one of these spectacles, seen from the stands in Lyon but heard with the ears of the savannah.
The SAVANE ÉCHO team / July 25, 2025
SAVANNAH ECHO
The Lyon Dance Biennale 2025
"When contemporary Africa takes the stage"
From September 6 to 28, 2025, the city of Lyon will host a new edition of its famous Dance Biennale, on the evocative theme: Bodies in Resonance.
While this edition promises to be rich and diverse, it is above all the voices from Afro-diasporic backgrounds that are captivating our attention. Artists such as Dorothée Munyaneza (Rwanda/UK), Lia Rodrigues (Brazil), and François Chaignaud, with their Latin American partners, will offer powerful creations where the body becomes memory, song, and resistance.
This edition highlights hybrid forms, blending dance, storytelling, song, and performance. Each gesture seems charged with collective memory, each silence becomes a poetic cry.
💬 “The body remembers. It keeps within itself stories, wounds, hopes.”
— Dorothée Munyaneza, guest artist
🗓 In Savane Écho – September 2025, we will return in detail to one of these spectacles, seen from the stands in Lyon but heard with the ears of the savannah.
The SAVANE ÉCHO team / July 25, 2025
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