Audience at the 2nd writer’s gathering
Audience at the 2nd writer’s gathering
Photograph of the audience at the 2nd Colloque international des écrivains, journalistes et communicateurs traditionnels, a literary colloquium organised by the Malian Centre and Mouvement Malivaleurs and held at Hôtel Massaley in Bamako from 29 November to 2 December 2016. From left to right on the front row are: Lamia Berrada-Berca, French-Moroccan writer and journalist; Aïda Diop, Senegalese writer; Khady Mint Cheikhna, president of the Mauritanian Centre; Yéhia Ag Ibrahim Haïdara, writer from Timbuktu; and Carles Torner, executive director of PEN International (2014-20). The theme of this colloquium was “The rise of violent extremism as a threat to the state, social cohesion, rights and freedoms”.
























