It's official: starting March 1, Abidjan will finally have a real comedy club that will offer Abidjan residents quality comedy shows every week. The Gondwana Club, conceived and organized by Mamane and his team, will be held at the Pullman Hotel in Plateau every Friday and Saturday evening. This event has been sorely lacking in the capital of laughter and finally fills the incomprehensible void of a venue dedicated to comedy shows, as exists everywhere else in the world.
A first in French-speaking Africa, this venue is inspired by the traditional New York comedy club and the Parisian café-théâtre, which Mamane was introduced to in his early days by a historical figure of the genre, Romain Bouteille, co-founder with Coluche of the Café de la Gare.
The Gondwana Club aims to offer the public a regular opportunity to see the cream of the African comedy scene, while providing artists with the performance and training venue they aspire to. The Abidjan public will now be able to discover new creations by artists such as Le Magnific, Ambassadeur Agalawal, Boukary, Joel, Les Zinzins, Digbeu, Cravate, Michel Gohou, etc., not to mention comedians from all over Africa and Europe who will come to perform there.
This new stage in the "Gondwana rocket" is in line with Mamane's long-standing ambitions for his continent, namely to identify, unite, mentor, and support talent.
"We form a family within which African comedians become professionals, so that their art becomes an economy, profitable and job-creating, as elsewhere in the world, like music and soccer" (Mamane).
Following on from the Abidjan Capitale du Rire Festival, the TV show "Le Parlement du Rire," the hit feature film "Bienvenue au Gondwana," the CFA Festival's European tour, and other projects currently in development (fiction, comedy school, etc.), the Gondwana Club is a logical addition to this long-term strategy, carefully developed and implemented over the past seven years by the Gondwana comedian.
Ready for takeoff: the fun is about to begin!
Gondwana Club
Opening March 1, 2019
Every Friday (two shows at 7:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.) and Saturday (three shows at 6:30 p.m., 8:00 p.m., and 9:30 p.m.) at the Pullman in Abidjan