Le Kung-Fu

"Movies. And there was everything. Absolutely everything. Dad was a complete man. Finished. A great fan of kung fu. He used to say to me, "Adé, I'll send you to China to learn kung fu at the Shaolin temple. And when you come back to the Congo, after you've brought back your five dan of kung-fu and a black belt, I, your father, will produce you in the cinema. We'll make kung fu movies here in the Congo. But my father died. And I've never been to China. I never learned kung fu. I've never acted in a film. I became an actor, and I play in the theater. That's my kung fu. That's my cinoche. Theater. Yes, that's where I do my kung fu."
Dieudonné Niangouna

Dieudonné Niangouna talks about how he created himself as an actor. Actor in life, actor in writing, actor on a theater stage, actor in his ongoing thought, defending areas left behind and militating artistically...