The edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Mwasi Collective

September 20–22, 2024 – Paris & Pantin

OPENING NIGHT – Friday, September 20, 2024

📍 Venue: La Flèche d’Or – 102bis Rue de Bagnolet, 75020 Paris

7:00 PM – Panel Discussion
10 Years of Afrofeminist Struggles: Retrospective and Perspectives
A discussion reflecting on a decade of activism with former and current members of the collective.
👉 Visual presentation of years of resistance + interactive panel discussion.

9:00 PM – Concert & DJ Sets
Celebrating 10 years of the festival with live music performances:

• @aworiii – Swiss-Ugandan musician (R&B & Hip Hop)

• @woki_li – Martinican DJ (shatta, baile funk, house, zouk, konpa, Afro-descendant music)

• @cheetah369 – DJ & producer, founder of Black Square (afrobeats, hip hop, kuduro, future beats, baile funk)

DAY 2 – Saturday, September 21, 2024

📍 Venue: Artagon Pantin – 14–16 Rue de la Gare, 93500 Pantin

11:00 AM – Talk & Book Signing
10 Questions on Black Feminisms – with Fania Noël
👉 Presentation and signing of her latest book (Libertalia Editions).
Discussion on Black feminisms in North American and European contexts.

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Workshops

• Parent–Child Cooking Workshop – La Cantine des Femmes Battantes

• ANKHRAGE: Holistic Dance Through the Lens of Ancestral Spirituality – Tine Inperience

• Shifting Boundaries: Black Feminism and #MeToo in Our Neighborhoods – Kuné Kune Collective

• Toward Digital Marronage – Suzanne & Iyo

• Integrating the Pan-African Dimension into Black Feminisms – Sawtche Collective

6:00 PM – Panel Discussion
Afrofeminist Struggles in France: Experiences and Approaches
Discussion with collectives from different regions:

• Afrofem Marseille

• Queer Afrofeminist Collective (Marseille)

• Cases Rebelles (Nantes)

• Afrotopies Festival (Montpellier)

• Kollectif Kune (Rennes)

• Rosas Collective (Marseille)

• Sawtche (Lyon)

8:30 PM – Stand-Up Night
Humor and Activism: Afrofeminist Perspectives
With:

• Tahnee (@tahneelautre) – Queer & afrofeminist comedian

• Mamamri (@mamari.munezero) – Comedian and actress

• Emilie Simonnet (@emiliesimonnet) – Politically engaged comedian

DAY 3 – Sunday, September 22, 2024

Workshops

10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Workshop: Black Women and the Choice Not to Have Children
👉 Anaïs Alachède – Nurse & volunteer sexologist at TQJSN
In a caring and neutral environment, a space to share experiences and reflections on the voluntary choice of non-motherhood (“childfree”).
💡 Objective: Co-create a Black childfree “survival kit” to develop coping and defense strategies in the face of family, social, and intimate pressure.

11:00 AM – Youth Performance
Camille in Every Direction
👉 Written and performed by Anturia Soilihi
A show about autism: Camille, a young girl full of imagination, shares her adventures with humor and tenderness. An ode to accepting difference and to the universality of childhood.

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Workshop: Creating Afrofeminist Publishing Projects
👉 Cases Rebelles Collective
Sharing a practical toolkit for launching militant afrofeminist publishing initiatives.

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Workshop: Writing Afrofeminist Utopias
👉 Mwasi Collective
A writing workshop to free our imaginations and collectively envision futures that inspire and empower us.
📌 No prior writing experience required.

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Workshop: Organizing Against Domestic Violence at an Intra-Community Level
👉 Mwasi Collective
A moment of reflection and skill-building to understand the mechanisms of domestic violence and to imagine community-based responses adapted to the realities of Black women.
⚠️ Content Warning: This workshop will address concrete examples of domestic violence.

CLOSING NIGHT

8:00 PM – Film Night: Short Film Screenings
🎬 Collective screening followed by informal discussions with the filmmakers:

• The King Is Not My Cousin – Annabelle Aventurin

• Our Memory – Johanna Makabi

• Muanapoto – Chriss Itoua

European Afrofeminist Festival – 3rd Edition

July 1–3, 2022 – La Parole Errante (Montreuil) & CICP (Paris)
Theme: “The Day After the End of the World”

Program: panel discussions, workshops, training sessions, artistic performances, exhibitions, and concerts to imagine possible futures beyond climatic, social, and political catastrophes.
Festival open to everyone – pay-what-you-can tickets starting at €1.
International guest collective: JAMA (Senegal).

📷 Find below: images, videos, and the full program.

Throughout the Festival

Exhibition:

• Thaïs Zaki

• Elsa Rakoto

Friday, July 1

7:00–9:00 PM

• Artistic performance: Dance – lua-KRIS

• Opening discussion
  Let Our People Go: the war in Ukraine and Black feminist organizing for Black students
  → Tokunbo Koiki, founder of Black Women for Black Lives (UK)

8:45 PM

• Concert: Sophye Soliveau – singer, harpist, choir director

9:00–11:00 PM

• Showcase & DJ Set: Sound Pretas (Portugal)

Saturday, July 2

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Workshops & Training – CICP

• Book club & writing workshop
  Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler) – Kiyémis

• AfroTrans: Toward Afro-centered trans historiographies – Cases Rebelles

• Afrofeminism 101 – Fania Noël

• Black Futures: Breaking free from the constraints of whiteness – Susu Collective (Belgium)

• Reimagining the City / Building the Black Subject – Margarida Waco & Alice Grandoit-Sutka

• Non-linear practices and movements: Afrofuturism, body, time, and space – Melissa Rodrigues

12:30 PM – 5:00 PM

• Adama Committee March – Beaumont-sur-Oise
  (Bus departure from the CICP, registration on opening night)

2:00 – 4:30 PM | Workshops & Training – Zoom

• Conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs

6:00 PM | Plenary – La Parole Errante

6:00 – 7:00 PM

• Children’s performance: Singing Our Victories – Ana Laura Nascimento

7:00 – 8:00 PM

• Discussion: Understanding the links between techno-capitalism and ecocide – Peggy Pierrot

8:00 PM

• Theatrical reading: La Débrouillardise pimpante – Sharone Omankoy
  With Kaïnana Ramadani & Lauryne Lopes – Directed by Azani V. Ebengou

Sunday, July 3

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Workshops – CICP

• Kemetic Yoga – Aby

1:30 – 3:30 PM | Workshops & Training – CICP

• An Afrofeminist Position Against Prison – Mwasi Police/Justice Commission

• Haitian Futurity – Shanna Jean-Baptiste

• A Window onto Black Feminisms in Portugal – Femafro

• Building Feminist Mobilizations Against Françafrique – Jama Collective

• The Global Black Victory Lab: Building a Global Black Feminist Solidarity Movement – Matters of the Earth (UK), Blackbird (US), Mwasi (France)

5:00 PM | Closing Night – La Parole Errante

6:00 PM – Panel:
Beyond Liberal Democracy: Envisioning the Day After the End of the World
With: Susu Collective (Belgium), Femafro (Portugal), Jama (Senegal), Matters of the Earth (UK), Mwasi (France)

8:00 PM

• Theatrical performance: To Our Rebellious Humanities – by Marie-Julie Chalu & Marina Monmirel
  (based on a text by Kiyémis)

9:00 PM
🎉 Festival closing

📅 Friday, July 26, 2019
⏰ 6:15 PM: Doors open at La Générale

7:00–7:20 PM
“The Afrofeminist Nation”
Stage creation by Christelle Kuete and Farah Medarbi

7:30 PM

• Opening speech

7:45 PM

• Fighters, Still Standing
  Discussion with Rose Ndengue and Madame Tounkara

9:00 PM

• ∞ Showcase: Casey

9:40 PM – 11:00 PM

• ∞ DJ Set: Crystallmess

📅 Saturday, July 27, 2019

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Workshops

• Objective: Defeat Capitalism
  Facilitated by Sonya Nour

• Pan-Africanism: The Horizon of Black Liberation
  Facilitated by Many Chroniques

• Migration: Fortress Europe
  Facilitated by MAPA 12N (Spanish collective)

• “Yellow Vest” Movement
  Facilitated by Quilombo

• Building Struggles That Mobilize All Generations
  Facilitated by Sawtche Collective

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Workshops

• An Afrofeminist Position Against Prison
  Facilitated by Mwasi Collective

• Political Love Between Black Women and Black Men
  Facilitated by Mwasi Collective

• Feminist Self-Defense Workshop
  Facilitated by Cases Rebelles

• Feminist Struggle in Haiti
  Facilitated by Nègès Mawon (Haitian collective)

• Let’s Talk About Colorism
  Facilitated by Founé

• Dance Class for Teens
  Facilitated by Christelle Kuete

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM | At La Générale

5:00 PM

• Puppet Show – All Audiences
  Created and performed by Mwasi

5:30 PM

• Politicizing and Fighting Domestic Violence
  Facilitated by Femmes Sourdes Citoyennes et Solidaires | Bla.Sh (Swiss collective) | Mwasi Collective

7:00 PM

• Doors close

📅 Sunday, July 28, 2019

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

• Brunch

1:30 PM – 3:30 PM | Workshops

• Black Women and the Healthcare System
  Facilitated by Selemani Djemba

• Through Body and Mind: Bibliotherapy (Care Through Books)
  Facilitated by Sawtche Collective

• Voice Mastery Workshop
  Facilitated by Loren – The Why Podcast

• Are Our Courses and Classrooms Anti-Racist? Formal Education and Anti-Racism
  Facilitated by Abou and Many Chroniques

• Black Girls Magic
  Facilitated by Itado Coaching

• Introduction to French Sign Language (LSF)
  Facilitated by Stéphanie Archimède

• Major Theories and Figures of Black Feminist Thought
  Facilitated by Cases Rebelles

🏁 Closing – La Générale (from 4:30 PM)

4:30 PM

• LES NGRSSS SLS
  The Circle of Revolutionary Griottes: Marina Monmirel, Fanny Essiye, Marie-Julie Chalu

4:50 PM – 6:00 PM

• Plenary: Making “Solidarity” a Verb
  Facilitated by Bla.Sh (Switzerland) | Afro-Swiss Collective (Switzerland) | MAPA 12N (Spain) | Nègès Mawon (Haiti) | Sawtche Collective (Lyon) | Mwasi Collective

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

• “I Exist” – Closing Performance
  Direction: Idjatou Sadjo Barry
  Performers: Aurélie Léma, Kitty Seymour, Judith Warne, Nana Erimoutou Zembour

7:00 PM

• Doors close

For this first edition, we chose to place the emphasis on organizing our resistance as afrofeminist movements.

From July 28 to 30, 2017, the Mwasi Collective organized and hosted the first edition of the NYANSAPO Festival, a militant European-scale afrofeminist festival held at La Générale (Paris). The festival was conceived as a traveling event, to be hosted each year by a different afrofeminist collective across Europe.

📅 Friday, July 28

📍 La Générale
🕡 From 6:30 PM — Opening Night ☆
🎤 Opening Round Table

“From the Margins to the Center: Resisting Workplace Exploitation”
Discussion with Amélia, a striking hotel housekeeper.

🕘 9:00 PM — Performances

• Showcase: KAMI AWORI

• DJ Set: Bad & Boujee (Austria)

📅 Saturday, July 29

☄ 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Workshops

• Queer Trans Revolutionary Struggles (QTR)
  Queer & Trans revolutionaries against racism and neo-colonialism ♥

• Afrofeminism in the Fight Against Anti-Blackness
  Mwasi Collective ♥

• Depoliticization and the Whitening of Intersectionality
  Po B. K. Lomami — activist and DIY socio-artistic project coordinator ♥

• Understanding Racism and Sexism Against Black Women
  Mwanamke — Belgian afrofeminist collective ♥

• Building Transnational Alliances
  Black Lives Matter UK ♥

• Refugees and Migrants: Toward Active Solidarity
  West African women refugees’ group

☄ 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Workshops

• Radical Solidarities Between Trans and Cis Women in an Afrofeminist Context
  KD — Cases Rebelles ♥

• Critical Reflections of a Decolonial Feminist in Academia
  Victoire Coppet ♥

• Emotional Labor
  Guilaine Kinouani — feminist, therapist, critical psychologist ♥

• Afrofeminist Struggle and a Pan-African Perspective
  Many Chroniques ♥

• Afrofeminism and the Fight Against Islamophobia
  Ndella Paye △

• Our Hair Is Political
  SciencesCurls ♥

🕔 5:00 PM — Talk / Discussion ☆
📍 La Générale

How can we defend the families of victims of police violence in the face of injustice?
With Ramataa Dieng (Collectif Vies Volées) and Marcia Rigg

🕣 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM — “No New Friend” Sisterhood Dinner ♥
🍽 Dinner

📅 Sunday, July 30

🕚 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM — Brunch & Discussion △
Decolonial Feminism

☄ 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM | Workshops

• Political Love Between Black Women and Black Men
  Mwasi Collective & Franck F. ♦

• Colorism in Our Communities
  Founé Tounkara ♥

• Writing Workshop
  Aude Konan ♥

🌅 Festival Closing

📍 La Générale

🕟 4:30 PM — Talk & Discussion ☆
With Casey, moderated by Atoubaa

🕡 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM — Round Table ☆
Our Organizing Perspectives for a Revolutionary Afrofeminism

With:
Black Lives Matter UK · Mwanamke Afrofeminist Collective (Brussels) ·
SciencesCurls (Paris) · Sawtche (Lyon) ·
Afrofeminas (Spain) · The Glow Up (Netherlands)