Lisette Ma Neza

Using Johny Pitts' book Afropean as a travel guide, Lisette Ma Neza set out to explore the African diaspora. She visited Paris, Marseille, Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon and Berlin, among others. During the trip, she asked questions to herself and people with African roots she met along the way. Who are we? Where are we? And where do we come from? But also questions about home, family, generations, history, love, life, Europe and Africa. Some Girls want to go to Europe is a performance of new poems, songs and conversations documented in image and sound that Lisette Ma Neza collected during her journey. Lisette slams and sings the evening together, accompanied by her Poetry Band. 

Lisette Ma Neza is from the Netherlands, but lives in Brussels, where she studied film. In 2017, she became the first Dutch-speaking woman to win the Belgian Poetry Slam Championship. She writes columns, songs and lyrics that are somewhere between poetry and essays and gives performances, balancing between painfully direct and infatuated naivety, and they often grab the audience by the throat.