When she decides to reactivate her late father's YouTube channel, two years after his death, Iman Ahmed does not suspect that she is about to bring a sunken world to the surface. Before her eyes scroll dozens of videos shot in the 1990s in Djibouti, the country of her childhood. Concerts and music videos in which she discovers, incredulous, the existence of Dinkara, a legendary Djiboutian pop group whose superstar is named Abdallah. The music is electronic, the ambition immense…
With My Family Archive, Iman Ahmed extends the investigation of her novel and explores what these family archives bring back to the surface. In this original creation for Lafayette Anticipations, the narrative transforms before our eyes into a tale told through soft clicks, mixing readings and projections. Through this dive into family and digital memory, a country emerges - Djibouti - as well as a teeming music scene, that of 1990s pop.