{"id":142889,"date":"2025-08-16T08:16:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/interviews-panm360\/afrikan-festival-montreal-mamoutou-dembele-vanessa-guay\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:22:19","slug":"afrikan-festival-montreal-mamoutou-dembele-vanessa-guay","status":"publish","type":"interviews","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/interviews-panm360\/afrikan-festival-montreal-mamoutou-dembele-vanessa-guay\/","title":{"rendered":"Afrikan: a brand new festival of music and culture from Africa is launched"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">From August 22 to 24, 2025, a new festival will take place in Montreal: Afrikan. The event is spearheaded by the duo formed by Mamoutou Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 (the artist known as Emd\u00e9 on stage, who won the Syli d&#8217;or at the Nuits d&#8217;Afrique in 2019) and Vanessa Guay. On the program, music with names such as Kizaba, Djely Tapa, Sophie Lukacs, Adama Daou, DJ Idriss the Black Viking, etc., but also gastronomy, fashion, various learning workshops, history, children&#8217;s games, and much more. I spoke with the two designers and creators of the newest addition to Montreal&#8217;s festive universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/afrikanfestival.com\/\"><strong>DETAILS AND TICKETS FOR THE AFRIKAN FESTIVAL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The interview (in French) is divided into four parts, with the full version at the end of the list.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Part 1: Programming&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Festival Afrikan Montr\u00e9al - ENTREVUE Mamoutou Demb\u00e9l\u00e9\/Vanessa Guay - Partie 1: Programmation\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rett0V69U_I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Part 2: The Origins of the Festival&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Festival Afrikan Montr\u00e9al - ENTREVUE Mamoutou Demb\u00e9l\u00e9\/Vanessa Guay - Partie 2: Origines du festival\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6v3TkcGQDWU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Part 3: Relationship with the older brother Nights of Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Festival Afrikan Montr\u00e9al - ENTREVUE Mamoutou Demb\u00e9l\u00e9\/Vanessa Guay - Partie 3: Nuits d&#039;Afrique\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dlIhZN685-U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Part 4: What sets Afrikan apart from the others<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Festival Afrikan Montr\u00e9al - ENTREVUE Mamoutou Demb\u00e9l\u00e9\/Vanessa Guay - Partie 4: Ce qui distingue\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G3QS91B7IWQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Full version Video<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Festival Afrikan Montr\u00e9al - ENTREVUE Mamoutou Demb\u00e9l\u00e9\/Vanessa Guay - Version compl\u00e8te\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u9iUm2QchMA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From August 22 to 24, 2025, a new festival will take place in Montreal: Afrikan. 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