Segun Ola can do all this.A natural sense for the phrase and the phase : « slam is art, the time of your life, past, present and future. Like the colour of life, like the ever changing shades of a night club. » Halfway between the colours and the sounds, the frontiers and the rhythms, Segun Ola is an immigrant. He left his native Nigeria for neighbouring Benin. Dozens of kms travelled for the love of the French language (...).

Before settling in Cotonou in 1997, on the death of Fela, Segun grew up in the shade of his hero from whom he would regularly draw energy and teaching. « At first I was always the youngest at his concerts, then I got closer to the Shrine to listened to Fela's lyrics. To me, then a young artist, he will remain one of the greatest African artists and fighters. »

Like Fela, Segun anchors his work in the African ground, while always keeping an eye outwards. His apprenticeship was made as a courier on the street where he learnt from every encounter, becoming in the ling run an accomplished artist, at the crossroads of disciplines and beyond all fashions. « Africa is one of the rare continents still living in the past. Even if I do carry a USB device around my neck and wear jeans, I also have the key to my own culture. To me, the initiation to invisible worlds is the real source, the real culture. From then on, you're not alone, somehow your are double. When you get initiated, you're like an extra-terrestrial, for you can see and live what every body do not perceive. »