Culture : Ouza Diallo s'adresse à la ministre Khady Diène Gaye
In an interview with L'Observateur, singer Ouza Diallo, a committed figure on the Senegalese music scene, made several concrete proposals to boost the cultural sector and better support artists.
According to him, the state must invest more ambitiously. He suggests selecting around twenty artists each year and providing them with a grant of at least 30 million CFA francs each to help them develop a solid cultural project. Such an investment, he believes, would help professionalize the sector and build lasting careers.
To illustrate his point, Ouza Diallo cites the example of European artists who, during the COVID-19 pandemic, were able to benefit from intermittent status and earn up to 3,000 euros per month (nearly two million CFA francs). He laments that, in Senegal, funding remains insufficient: "Two million is not even enough to produce a quality single."
Faced with this observation, the singer calls on the government to implement a genuine national cultural policy. This should be based on listening, sustainable funding, and recognition of the educational and social role of artists. Ouza insists on one point: culture must not be a secondary sector. "Culture is the foundation of every society, every religion, every nation," he argued.
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"prend en exemple les artistes européens, qui, pendant la pandémie de COVID-19, ont pu bénéficier d'un statut d'intermittent et percevoir jusqu'à 3 000 euros par mois"...........Il n'est pas au courant qu'il vit dans un zoo et que son gourou considère nos nanas comme des guenons ?....soignez cet imbécile
Comment peux tu avaler la comparaison des artistes europeens a ceux du Senegal, un pays pauvre et tres endettes? S'il y'a un gouvernment qui n'a pas suffisament fait pour les artiste c'est le voleur Macky Sall avec ses grands voleurs qui auraient dus donner une somme consequente a l'argent du covid qu'ils se sont partages. La covid 19 est maintenant deriere nous et maintenant ce sont les caisses de l'etat qui souffrent a cause de la mal gouvernance de Macky Sall donc desormais y'a plus d'argent a jeter par la fenetre.
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