This Reading for All initiative aims to prevent illiteracy through meetings between writers and school students in particular.
From Wednesday, January 23 to Friday, January 25, Marc Alexandre Oho Bambe, known as Captain Alexandre, will engage with schools and hospitals in Nice and the Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolis surrounding his latest novel, Diên Biên Phù.
Marc Alexandre Oho Bambe is a slam poet; Captain Alexandre spreads notes and words of resistance and peace, memory and hope. Being a writer at the heart’s tempo, he inscribes his poems and steps into those essential of his thinking guides and teachers of hope. His poetry sings of possibilities, self-giving, love and revolt, the quest for humanity, “nothing but humanity,” and the radical refusal to live “with arms crossed in the sterile posture of a spectator.”
He has published five books: DNA (Africa Diasporas Negritude), The Song of Possibilities (awarded the Fetkann Poetry Prize and the Paul Verlaine Prize by the French Academy in 2015), and Residents of the Republic (an essay written in a “state of emergency” in 2016) by La Cheminante Editions. Published in July 2017, From Earth, Sea, Love and Fire by Mémoires d’Encrier editions. His latest novel, Diên Biên Phù, released in March 2018 by Sabine Wespieser publisher, takes us into a tale of lost love and friendship, which is also a quest for truth.
A founding member of the “On A Slamé Sur La Lune” Collective, Captain Alexandre is also a columnist (Africultures, Mediapart) and an educator in schools and universities where he instills in young people respect and meaning, the essence of life curious about the Other and an existence free from dogmas and extremes.
Captain Alexandre slams his texts and sings the possibilities on stages worldwide (South Africa, Lebanon, Morocco, Cameroon, Martinique, Haiti, Senegal, Cuba, Canada, United States, Côte d’Ivoire, Spain, Malawi, Switzerland, Belgium, Brazil, Comoros Islands…).
Marc Alexandre Oho Bambe was made a Knight of the National Order of Merit by presidential decree on May 2, 2017.
Program
Wednesday, January 23: 9 am-12 pm Lycée Auguste Renoir (10th grade) Cagnes-sur-Mer/ 2:30 pm – 4 pm at the Sainte Marie Hospital Center
Thursday, January 24: 8:30 am – 10 am Lycée Thierry Maulnier (10th, 11th grades) / 10:30 am – 12 pm Lycée des Eucalyptus (11th grade, non-native speaker class, bridging class) / 1:30 pm – 3 pm Psycho-Dynamic Day Center for Adolescents / 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm Collège Vernier (non-native speaker class)
Friday, January 25: 8:30 am – 10 am Lycée Pasteur (11th grade, Senior year, CAP) / 10:30 am – 12 pm Collège Louis Nucéra (8th, 9th grades) / 1:30 pm – 3 pm Elementary School Les Orangers (5th grade) / 3:15 pm – 4:30 pm Elementary School Saint Roch 2 (5th grade)
