Announced for december 2002 , it came out on 7 March 2003. The album was a big succes and many songs are still played until this day. Although the press being pro-Maison Mere, Biblia managed to get bronze as best song of year behind Reddy’s Assistant Social (gold) and Jus d’Ete Mulopwe’s Examen (silver). The same ACMCO gave Quartier Latin silver as best group behind Maison Mere (gold) they were followed by Cultura Pays’Vie (bronze).



The group album was Koffi’s last project with his recordlabel Next Music (former Sono/Sonodisc). Quartier Latin’s first concert after the release of Affaire d’Etat was at Zénith de Paris (April 2003) with the album they did several African countries and toured in the US. Quartier Latin ended up by winning the trophee of best group at Kora Awards edition 2003.

Classic album, the sound quality and everything have aged well. It was a great follow up from Effrakata with them using the same team. I remember the first time I heard it, it was on a cassette in the car the album Droit de veto was playing then after Nyandja it went straight to Piwawa and I was like I don’t remember this being in droit de veto lol then I realised it was the new album. Also summer of 03 was hot because the DVD came out and everyone bought the dvd (this was when DVD’s were still new so everyone was going crazy to buy a copy of the dvd).
I have sentimental memories because it was the last album that Koffi released just before my mother passed which was that year and she was a diehard Koffi fan.

This is one of the best Quartier Latin albums of all time.

What song do you guys think was the best from the album?

For me, it is this song

This is one of the best Quartier Latin albums of all time.

What song do you guys think was the best from the album?

For me, it is this song

for me is juif noir easily what a banger and the sebene at the end perfect, its been my favorite song of that album since i was a kid i get goosebumps everytime that beat drop at 2:29 and the bass kicks in my godness