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As a music genre born from successive crises and widening access to new technologies, ‘ntcham’ manifests the attempts at escape, survival and diversion of Gabonese youth, as well as the challenges and anxieties surrounding the ongoing transition since the coup d’état of 30 August 2023.
Sep 8, 2024
L’Oiseau Rare, one of Gabon’s artists of the Ntcham genre. LOISEAU_RARE_8G / IG. Photo 2: Poster for Ali Bongo. DAVID STANLEY / FLICKR. Photo illustration by Dami Mojid / THE REPUBLIC.
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is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland, and a documentary maker.



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