The evening is presided by the French Minister of Cooperation, and Ray Lema provides entertainment. Afrique chez vous provides entertainment, mainly in primary schools, but also in hospitals, for sick children. Its purpose is to help kids discover the African continent, and its cultural wealth. The reading of an African tale, then a written work on this tale prepares the Afrique chez vous intervention. They play their instruments while children read the tale aloud.
Kids have the possibility to play, or at least touch, the instruments.
In 1994, Namibian musician Jackson Kaujeuma is received in Paris, in collaboration with the Centre Culturel Franco-Namibien. He is given extensive training to become a manager in the music world. After a five-month preparation, twenty young rappers chosen in a Montreuil school work for a week with three Banlieues Bleues resident artists. Sax player David Murray, African-American in search of his roots. Senegalese drum-master Doudou Ndiaye Rose, holder of traditional knowledge.