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An unstereotyped soirée

Originality guaranteed
  • Our star is Asta Ngo Um Djimbe, daughter of a Cameroonian chief

 

 

At an African clubhouse on the city's northern fringe

 

 

  • Her "bottle dance" in a Parisian salon 

 

 

Start

 

As subtle rhythms set the mood, Asta majestically enters. The  dance begins.

 

Africans use a beer-bottle. Not knowing us, Asta substituted grapefruit juice.

 

 
A little later

 

• We still know the guests and none have forgotten this evening

 

 

 

For the dance in an African bar, please CLICK

 

 

 

 

     

     

    • An African feast follows ... mmm ...

     

     

    Damaris brings an entrée.

     

    Westerners "first eat with their eyes and then with their nose and then try to relate the African dish to what they know already," says Damaris Maa, founder and President of the African immigrant women's association through whom we know Asta.

     

     

     

    They combine presentation, aroma and an elegantly drawn-up menu to herald the succulent dishes to which companies and individuals are turning when they seek to surprise their guests.

    •Costs: Please CLICK

     

     

    Credits: Africans in crowd / Dreux Office of Tourism (detail); other photos / Claude Abron