{"id":304,"date":"2026-10-16T23:49:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myhappyafrica.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:49:35","slug":"from-lagos-to-london-a-new-home-for-african-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myhappyafrica.com\/fr\/from-lagos-to-london-a-new-home-for-african-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"De Lagos \u00e0 Londres : un nouveau lieu pour les r\u00e9cits africains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photo: Danielle G. Campbell \/ WikiPortraits, via <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Mo_Abudu_at_TIFF_2025_(cropped).jpg\">Wikimedia Commons. <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-SA 4.0.<\/a> Cropped. Mo Abudu at TIFF 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Un film peut nous faire d\u00e9couvrir le monde d\u2019une autre personne. Un repas peut r\u00e9veiller des souvenirs du pays. Un v\u00eatement peut nous pr\u00e9senter le travail d\u2019un cr\u00e9ateur que nous n\u2019aurions jamais connu autrement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">L\u2019entrepreneure des m\u00e9dias et productrice nig\u00e9riane Mo Abudu r\u00e9unit ces exp\u00e9riences \u00e0 EbonyLife Place London, officiellement inaugur\u00e9 le 8 octobre 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ce nouveau lieu garde un lien avec Lagos, o\u00f9 elle a ouvert le premier EbonyLife Place en 2019. Son adresse londonienne prolonge cette id\u00e9e : permettre \u00e0 la cr\u00e9ativit\u00e9 africaine de rencontrer des publics au-del\u00e0 du continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Faire une place \u00e0 nos histoires<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interrog\u00e9e par l\u2019AFP sur ce projet, Mo Abudu a r\u00e9sum\u00e9 sa motivation en quelques mots : \u00ab Il est temps de raconter nos propres histoires. \u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">N\u00e9e \u00e0 Londres, elle se souvient d\u2019avoir eu peu d\u2019occasions de voir des films mettant en avant des personnes noires pendant sa jeunesse. Elle a choisi de contribuer \u00e0 cr\u00e9er le lieu culturel qu\u2019elle aurait aim\u00e9 conna\u00eetre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Au c\u0153ur du lieu se trouve une salle de cin\u00e9ma consacr\u00e9e aux r\u00e9cits africains et aux histoires des communaut\u00e9s noires. Son ambition d\u00e9passe les fronti\u00e8res d\u2019un seul pays, avec une place pour des films venus de toute l\u2019Afrique et de la diaspora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bien plus qu\u2019un cin\u00e9ma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le lieu r\u00e9unit \u00e9galement cuisine, mode et art. Les visiteurs peuvent ainsi d\u00e9couvrir plusieurs formes de cr\u00e9ativit\u00e9 au cours d\u2019une m\u00eame visite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a filmmaker or designer, places like this could help an unfamiliar audience discover their work. For someone with African roots, they could offer a connection to home. For other visitors, they could be an invitation to explore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those possibilities explain why this opening matters. Creating work is one part of the journey; helping it reach people is another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A beginning worth following<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is still early. The venue\u2019s lasting contribution will depend on its programme, the creators it supports and the audiences who return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the opening is already a concrete achievement: an entrepreneur has taken an idea developed in Lagos and given it a new home in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For MyHappyAfrica, that is a story worth sharing\u2014and following as its next chapter unfolds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/ebonylifeplacelondon.com\/\">EbonyLife Place London\u2060 \u00b7 <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.screendaily.com\/news\/mo-abudu-opens-dedicated-london-venue-for-african-and-black-cinema\/5221267.article\"> Screen Daily\u2060.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/2026\/10\/08\/mo-abudu-unveils-cultural-centre-cinema-dedicated-to-african-film-in-london\/\">AFP \/ Channels Television<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mo Abudu\u2019s new London venue builds on an idea developed in Lagos, bringing African cinema, food, fashion and art to new audiences.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-creativity","category-positive-african-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhappyafrica.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhappyafrica.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhappyafrica.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhappyafrica.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhappyafrica.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myhappyafrica.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/myhappyafrica.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhappyafrica.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myhappyafrica.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhappyafrica.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myhappyafrica.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}