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Mounira Mitchala
A contemporary female voice, committed lyrics, nicknamed the gentle panther.
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Machine translation from French, under review. The French text is authoritative.
Mounira Mitchala, nicknamed “the Gentle Panther”, born Mounira Khalil Alio on 19 September 1979, is a singer, songwriter, composer and actress. Hissène Habré’s dictatorship forced her family into exile, in West Germany and then Nigeria, until 1992.
Her first album, Talou Lena, was recorded from 2006 in N’Djamena and then in France in 2007; the title track made her name. Her lyrics denounce forced marriage, female genital cutting and discrimination against people with AIDS, and address desertification and war.
In March 2012 she released Chili Houritki (“seize your independence” in Chadian Arabic), a call for women’s autonomy; the album won her the 2012 Kora Award for best female artist of the year. She has also played supporting roles in films by Mahamat Saleh Haroun (Daratt, Abouna).
- Birth
- 19 September 1979
- Albums
- Talou Lena; Chili Houritki (2012)
- Distinctions
- RFI Discovery Prize; Kora Award 2012
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