singer Kendji Girac discovers the culture of Turkana in Kenya

On the occasion of the 20 years of this program, Frédéric Lopez accompanies singer Kendji Girac (photo) in Kenya. If the artist feared “missing out the adventure” because of the living conditions he would meet on the spot, it was ultimately nothing.

Admittedly, he does not regret the cow’s skin which held him a bed, but he managed to go beyond these concerns to fully live the experience. “I started to feel comfortable because there is something I recognized from me in them: living in community, with strong women. Like my mother and my sisters, Turkana women cut wooden branches, manage fire …

Finding this thing so familiar while being so far from home seemed incredible. It made me want to know more and more about them and helped me ask them questions. As a result of strong exchanges. A successful issue, like the thirty previous ones that we have also been following for two decades.

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