Christian MASSOJI is from the Ruund ethnic group, one of the thousand that make up the Ntu people, commonly known as Bantu. Ba Ntu or Bantu simply refers to people from ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa, roughly extending from Nigeria to South Africa, who share common linguistic characteristics and a common social organization.

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A childhood spent in Brussels, between his passion for Brazil and the rigor of Catholic education, which awakened his love of literature, particularly poetry. His father, a chemistry researcher, provided structure to his curious and restless spirit, instilling discipline and method. Samba and a love of science: the expression of a certain duality in his personality.

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From the gray skies and autumn rains of Belgium, the family moved to Paris where he pursued his higher education before embarking on a very exciting journey in the Telecommunications and ICT sector. Yet, since adolescence, he had constantly practiced his writing, drawing on his more personal life experiences in an erratic fashion, sketching the first notes that would give life to this collection.

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Today, between his impactful projects focused on Africa, which has remained a constant in his ambitions since the beginning, and the maturity that comes with age, he delivers this unexpected work, THE STORMS, the fruit of a turbulent love life, made up of raw emotions, sometimes tinged with suppressed rage, sometimes with a gentle melancholy. An intoxicating descent into the labyrinth of his tormented soul.

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A mind at the crossroads of two worlds: Africa, strong in its millennia-old rites and traditions deeply rooted in its imagination, and Europe, where he grew up and forged his literary identity and style, between modernity and symbolism.