artist, scholar and activist – Cluster’s artist in residence 01.10.2023 – 31.03.2024
From 2014 to 2016, Carine Bahanag wrote and directed three musicals for children as part of her "Vacances en Cadence" project, artistic workshops open free of charge to children from the workingclass Nkolndongo district (Yaoundé, Cameroon), who don't always have access to art.
In 2018, with a bachelor's degree in organizational communication and a master's in Performing Arts, she began a doctoral thesis in anthropology on the male recovery of women's dances from southern Cameroon in the process of patrimonialization.
In 2019, she joins the team behind Reine Dibussi's children's and science-fiction comic "Mulatako", about difference, feminism and self-confidence. She writes the script for volumes 2 (Afiri éditions 2021), 3 and 4 of the series (scheduled for 2024 and 2025).
In 2020, together with Reine Dibussi, she co-founded AFIRI Studio, a publishing house and graphic studio based in France, specializing in African and Afrodescendant-inspired illustrated content.
In 2021, she joins the co-founding team of the Coordination féministe Camerounaise, a coalition of associations aiming to strengthen the Cameroonian feminist movement.
In June 2023, she co-founded the collectif féministe 1931, is a working group focused on the transmission of African feminist knowledge and whose mission is to contribute to the social and political revolution necessary for the advent of a more just, equitable and egalitarian society in Cameroon and on the African continent.