The current anchor · Since 2020
Senegal
The red earth
After fifteen years of nomadism, putting the old Maasai's words to the test: what if "home" could also mean staying?
To take root, for good.
One hectare of red earth, an adobe-and-thatch house, fully solar. Organisations being born, a community taking shape. It is here that all the threads - development, research, music, writing - are tied in the same place, at the same time.
What is taking root now
Everything, in one place
The hub
Mélanzé
Eco-construction, the publishing house, the SomOne Music label. 300 m² in raw earth, solar-autonomous.
Research-action
CREATES
The research-action centre I co-lead: climate, food systems, arts and public engagement.
Music
SomOne Music
Music production, including Natty Jean - building bridges between the continent's scenes.
Projects
ARTS · AgroVoiceS · AI
Agroecology, participatory arts and innovation: surfacing the voices of the transition.
Film
Documentary
"Les veines ouvertes de la terre," co-directed with Thomas Grand - land grabbing in Senegal.
Writing
The second novel
Nearing completion - and set in the drylands of Northern Kenya, the other root.
Some days, it feels like an anchor. Others, the question stays open. But the seed, here, has taken.
All my roots