World Day for African & Afro-descendant Culture

African Love Stories: Intimacy, Choice & Freedom

-  An evening of music & conversation 

As part of the commemoration of the World Day for African & Afro-descendant Culture, Alliance Française is pleased to curate a special evening titled African Love Stories, inspired by a reading from Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story.

This roundtable conversation seeks to explore love as a universal yet deeply personal phenomenon, as experienced, imagined, constrained, and redefined within African contexts. Through literature, lived experience, and cultural reflection, we hope to create an open and intimate discussion around intimacy, choice, freedom, gender, and the ways African love stories have evolved — and continue to evolve — across generations.

Love Stories Then & Now

How today’s African love stories differ: Dating apps, Long-distance relationships, Love across borders, Economic pressures, Are today’s love stories more free — or just more complicated? Who Gets to Tell African Love Stories? Literature vs. film vs. social media, What kinds of love stories are still missing?