SENEGAL-MUSIC-RESEARCH / The study day dedicated to Kiné Lam illustrates the “spirit of openness” of FASTEF (Dean) – Senegalese Press Agency

_{Dakar, June 29 (APS) – The “study day” dedicated to the artistic work of Senegalese singer Adja Kiné Lam organized by the Faculty of Science and Technology of Education and Training (FASTEF ex ENS) is a way to perfectly illustrate the spirit of openness to society of this university institution, indicated its dean Moustapha Sokhna.}

_{“By initiating this day with the diva Kiné Lam, we wanted to show an open faculty, anchored in its traditions, a faculty open to all educational structures which can instill in young people what is strongest in us,” said notably declared Professor Sokhna at the opening of this scientific meeting whose theme is “Adja Kiné Lam or rooting and openness in traditional-modern music: pedagogy of beauty and didactics of good”.}

_{“Kiné Lam Mame Bamba is a strong symbol of what we want for Senegalese society,” said Moustapha Sokhna, adding that FASTEF shares with the singer “the same concerns” relating in particular to education.}

_{The director of the doctoral school of the research group on contemporary cultural expressions (GRE2C) at Cheikh-Anta-Diop University (UCAD), Mor Ndao said he found in the work of Kiné Lam “the same missions assigned to the university”, namely the defense of African culture “tangible and intangible, material and immaterial”.}

_{” Kine Lam Mame Bamba, like Mada Thiam, from Soda Mama, rocked our moments of happiness. It is a tangible heritage, a living treasure to be preserved, valued and transmitted,” insisted the historian.}

_{“Senegalese and African artists are traveling libraries of the word and the verb, in the sense that the verb imposes on the individual a behavior to adopt,” argued the sociologist Maréma Touré Thiam, according to whom the artists are “the first teachers of society”}.

_{Coming to represent the Secretary of State for Culture, Saliou Dieng welcomed this study day which “breaks down the barriers between the university and society, thus establishing a future collaboration between the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture and the academic world”.}

_{“I give thanks to God. I am very moved to be in this temple of knowledge. I feel a lot of happiness that I have never had,” confided the artist, saying she was very moved by this day of study dedicated to her work.}

_{Kiné Lam Mame Bamba or Fatou Kiné Lam in civil status began her artistic career in theater in the 1970s.}

_{It was in 1975 that music fans discovered her voice with the title “Mame Bamba”, which she sang at the Iba-Mar-Diop stadium in Dakar, during a music competition.}

_{In 1977, she began a full-fledged musical career, before joining the Daniel-Sorano National Theatre Company the following year.}

_{With her first album, “Dogo”, named after her late husband, she reveals her talents in modern music, after having devoted her beginnings to purely traditional music, accompanied by instruments such as the tam-tam or the xalam.}

_{With the help of her husband, the guitarist and conductor Cheikh Tidiane Tall, Adja Kiné Lam succeeded in creating the group “Kaggu” (the library in Wolof) in 1989.}

_FKS/SMD