Souleymane Diamanka

A leading figure in slam and oral poetry, Souleymane Diamanka presents on 28 March 2026 at Le République in Paris a performance that blends the intimate and the collective. Between hip‑hop and poetry, he unfolds texts in which love, memory and culture answer one another, using precise, rhythmic language attentive to breathing. On stage, his deep voice and measured phrasing invite attentive listening. Every word is weighed; every image reactivates the thread of a story made of inheritances, encounters and intersecting paths. He plays with silences, loops and refrains to open spaces where each person can project their own experience, without affectation, as close as possible to the spoken word. Neither concert nor theatre in the strict sense, this presentation embraces orality as its primary material. Diamanka acts as a conduit, circulating the stories that inhabit him and the musicality of the words that accompany them. It is an invitation to take the time to hear what language can say, and what it allows us to share, here and now.