The Spoken Word Project, m. 1 DVD-ROM

'From Bamako to Nairobi, Antananarivo to Yaoundé, the spoken word sceneis highly active and full of artistic innovation. It is a phenomenon of recentyears that continues to grow despite many constraints. In cafés and bookshops,at literary festivals and even on the steps of buildings on universitycampuses, young people often gather to rhyme their truths and hear othersbreathing the fires that burn inside their bellies about injustice in their societies,racism, police brutality, corrupt leaders, poverty, or the lack of careeropportunities. Ideas, themes, story lines or even concepts and phrases aretaken up by a listener at one event who turns performer at the next eventbecause they capture her or his truth, too. And so words, stories, gesturesand intonations travel as they pass from one mind, mouth and body toanother.'This book documents the spoken word scenes in South Africa, Madagascar,Cameroon, Mali, Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire and Uganda, where The Spoken WordProject, initiated by theGoethe-Institut in 2013, took place. The authors providefascinating insight into the old tradition of story-telling and oral history,which during The Spoken Project, was taken up by a young generation ofpoets and transformed in a powerful new way.