From 1961 to 2002, Air Afrique was a pan-African airline recognized for its service and elegance. An extension of that model was its in-flight journal, Balafon, which showcased the artistic arts throughout Africa. In a tribute to the reminiscence of its cultural impression, the newly shaped Air Afrique collective is producing an annual publication, which can have fun the most recent and biggest in African diasporic tradition. The visually-striking editorial, referred to as “Scènes d’amour à Abidjan,” encompasses a sequence of black-and-white compositions of the Ivorian capital in its up to date emergence, its denizens impeccably trendy, and energized–if hesitant, in a method–by the sensation of being on the sting of one thing new. Beneath a picture of two ladies standing in entrance of a dilapidated colonial-era constructing, Tusiama imagines one saying: “Abidjan is town of ‘every thing is claimed’ and ‘every thing is thought.’”
