Look Who's Talking : Joëlle Sambi Nzeba (FR)
A committed voice in Afrofeminist poetry, Joëlle Sambi Nzeba guides you through Everlyn Nicodemus' exhibition Black Bird. The tour, informed by her reflections on colonial legacies and diasporic identities, will shed light on over forty years of artistic creation shaped by racism, exile, memory, and the challenges of reparation.
In French. Free with exhibition ticket.
Crédit : Béa Huart
Joëlle Sambi Nzeba is a writer, poet, slam artist, director, filmmaker, and Afrofeminist lesbian activist. Born in Brussels, cradled between its grey cobblestones and the vibrant warmth of Kinshasa, she draws from this matrix city a living language, traversed by rhythms, silences, and revolts. Her work is written at the crossroads of struggles, multiple belongings, and languages in dialogue with one another.
For over twenty years, her work has spanned poetry, slam, documentary, and political writing. She is notably the author of Caillasses (SCAM Prize, 2021) and Et vos corps seront caillasses (2024). Her first novel, Le Monde est Gueule de Chèvre (2007), received the Prix Gros Sel and the Prix Première (RTBF). Her texts have been published in numerous journals and anthologies and translated into several languages.
She also develops stage work in collaboration with artists from music and dance, with creations such as Fusion, Angles Morts, Congo Eza, Maison Chaos, and Koko Slam Gang. Since 2021, she has been an associate artist at the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles.