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Mit anderen Worten_In other worlds: African Book Festival Berlin 2025_ Deutsch/English
When summer is at its peak in Berlin, countless literature enthusiasts flock to the Alte Münze south of Alexanderplatz. Then it's the African Book Festival again. In Other Worlds/Words was the motto of this year's festival. ABF 25 focused on speculative fiction and literature from Ghana.
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Cooperation and Opportunities: Germany and its relations to the African continent_an interview with Uschi Eid_President of German Africa Foundation_Deutsch_English
What image do we have of Africa? How do we build relationships with African representatives from politics, business and society when it comes to concrete politics? What do state visitors from African countries do when they visit Germany? The German Africa Foundation (DAS) in the German capital Berlin has been dealing with this and much more for decades. Under the chairmanship of former Member of the German Bundestag Dr. Uschi Eid, the DAS promotes relations between Germany and the countries of the African continent. Personal contact and exchange between parliamentarians and representatives of civil society from Africa is essential for a fair partnership. The German Africa Foundation organizes events such as lectures, readings, panel discussions, seminars, etc. The press…
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Die Landfrage_The Question of Land: Why Land is so important to Kenyans_engl/deutsch
In African society, land has always been a constant feature. Land ownership in pre-colonial Africa, equated to wealth, identity and a source of livelihood. An African owned a piece of land and together with his family, was identified with that piece of land. Land also served the purpose of growing food that would feed your family hence the reason why planting and harvest seasons in many African societies are revered. So are market days where you could sell your produce in exchange for other produce. And finally, owning land ultimately meant that your male children were assured of an inheritance.
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Dive into Culture Africa 1st Issue – Non-Fiction from six African countries
Dive into Culture Africa 1st Issue – Non-Fiction and Art from six African countries Where The Ghosts Hide By Mariam Hassan “The answer found me in a bucolic dream where the sun rose so high and bled red on my brown skin, I watched the palm trees wave between my fingers and listened to the wind blowing under my earlobes. The bits of myself I managed to salvage had been taken aback and replanted in a house by the water where every morning I was greeted in my mother tongue.” Navigating “It is Well” as a Nigerian Immigrant By Temitope Famakinwa “The other time on a call, a close family friend was eating pounded yam, unwrapped from a banana…
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Non–Fiction As Cultural Anthropology – Culture Africa First Literary Magazine out now engl/deutsch
As you contemplate whether to engage with Culture Africa Issue 1, consider that you are not merely encountering literary works, but engaging with a people’s anthropology presented through one of the most creative and intellectually rigorous forms available. You are, in effect, witnessing the foundational moments of a platform whose existence is firmly dedicated to becoming the definitive space for such discourse.
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Successful this time! International German Film Festival Berlinale 2024 and Africa deutsch-english
Which Way Africa? is the title of a film by Congolese director David-Pierre Fila, which is screening at the Berlinale. The 74th edition of the Berlin Film Festival started this year under the chairmanship of Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong'o. This remarkable decision to choose Nyong'o as jury president gives us a glimpse of the presence of African actors and especially African productions. The Berlinale, as the festival is called, is, it should be noted, a European festival. In the past, African productions have played a rather minor role. In the wake of outstanding productions from the continent, the growing attention for actors, producers, musicians and directors from Africa, also involved in international co-productions, Africa can simply no longer be…
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African Publishers on the Book Fair in Frankfurt: And The Story Goes On english/deutsch
It was another real book fair in Frankfurt. One with lots of visitors, almost like before the pandemic. The last three years were empty, the book fair only took place online once, the two years after that it was a very limited event. But even during this time, when visitors were rather rare, smaller publishers from the continent also showed up at the fair at the invitation of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Invitation Program https://www.buchmesse.de/en/fellowship-and-grant-programmes/frankfurt-invitation-programmes, cultureafrica.net reported on this. So this year it was once again a crowd-puller. And in Hall 6, where the publishers and networks from Africa were to be found, there was also a lot going on again. This is the 75th edition of this huge…
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African Book Festival in Berlin – Three Days of Literature and Pleasure – deutsch-english
Once again, the large number of visitors to the ABF, most of them young people, gives one hope that African literature can be very much alive. Whoever gets involved in this festival for three days can get very close to African literature. All authors are present for the whole three days, they are not flown in for a short time but spend the days at the festival. And if you want, you can get very close to them. You can sit down with them and talk.
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African Book Festival Berlin 2023: Boost for African Literature in Germany. Interview mit/with Co-Organizer Venice Trommer
This year, the African Book Festival in Berlin will take place for the fifth time. In recent years, it has developed into one of the most important festivals for African literature in Germany and Europe. It is a public festival in the classical sense. And it has successfully survived the restrictions of the pandemic years. The appetite for African literature is greater than ever. One feature of the ABF is that the program is designed by African curators. The organizer, InterKontinental e.V., selects a literary personality each year. This curatorial principle, which has characterized the last editions, was cancelled this year with a bang. Shortly after the announcement of this year's curator, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a storm of indignation…
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An Uncomfortable Truth: Howard W. French: Born in Blackness – Afrika und die Entstehung der modernen Welt_deutsch_englisch
Africa and the Making of the Modern World, now published in German by Klett-Cotta, is to be seen as an important contribution in the reinterpretation of historical facts and contexts. The striking thing is not only the many facts that French presents. It becomes clear relatively early in the reading that it is above all the concealment or negation of facts and contexts that have made possible a revelation of one of the darkest chapters of Western history. A central thesis of the book is that Africa with its resources of gold and forced laborers, over twelve million slaves and the market for textiles, made an unheard-of rise of the European seafaring nations such as Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands,…
