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    • shonareads book review: Njinga of Angola and Bulawayo Burning – engl/ger
    • A Male as a Female – The Evolution of African Comedy Part 2 – engl/ger
    • Midgroove_Inside Johannesburg Club Scene_Fotoserie von AndyMkosi
    • Midgroove Fotoreportage2 _ Interview mit/with AndyMkosi
    • Archive 2020
      • Shona_ Book Review – Rhodesia und Who killed Hammarskjöld?
      • Koloniale Abrechnung _ Roter Staub
      • Libreville_Politthriller aus Gabun
      • The White Savior Complex – Der Weisse Retter Komplex // Essay by Lorna Likiza – engl/ger
      • A Question of Tribe – Kenya und seine Ethnien/ and its tribes
      • When Hakuna Matata becomes a phrase in English – Und Disney afrikanische Traditionen kauft
      • African Author Spotlight – An Interview with Dennis Mugaa_ Engl/Ger
      • SiHene: Preserving Ghana’s Cultural Heritage – Interview with Founder Rita Mawuena Benissan engl/ger
      • African Author Spotlight – Interview with Peter Ngila Njeri – Engl/Ger
      • The House of Rust and Swahili Culture – Interview with Mombasa writer Khadija Abdalla Bajaber -engl
      • Ugandas First Woman – Author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi at the African Book Festival – Interview ger/engl
      • African Book Festival Berlin: Interview with South African curator Lidudumalingani_engl/ger
      • Ally Abdallah: The Book, the Festival, Zanzibar and the Nobel Prize winner – Interview engl/ger
      • Invisible Inventories – Nairobi – Cologne – now Frankfurt – Interview mit/with Leonie Neumann ger/engl
      • Barefoot in Germany – Interview with/mit Rwandan/German author Tete Loeper engl/ger
      • Tsitsi Dangarembga and much more: Orlanda Verlag /Publishing House Berlin- Interview ger/engl
      • Akono Publishing and Blog – Spot on Africa: Afrikanische Literaturen und Kultur sichtbar machen – Interview – ger/engl
      • Instilling a Reading Culture in African Children – Interview with Okenna Nzelu/Bright Lights Books engl/ger
      • I ve got the power! Interview with musician Melane ger/engl
      • Borga – Much more than a Movie – Interview mit/with Director York-Fabian Raabe – ger/engl
      • Pawnie Tribune – Passion for Coastal Culture and History Interview with/mit Albert Mwamburi engl/ger
      • Kenyan Cuisine has a lot to offer: Interview with Yvonne Mula
      • Avec Cameroun und mit Power aus Berlin: Initiative Perspektivwechsel – ger/french
      • “Bright Red Fruit” Safia Elhillo’s Masterful Exploration Using Verse Narratives Review by Frank Njugi engl-ger
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  • Archive
    • Aus der Dunkelheit Strahlendes Licht – Livingstones letzte Reise
    • Highlife Now: Santrofi aus Ghana
    • Meine Schwester, die Serienmörderin – Ein Buch erobert die Welt
    • A Male As A Female: The Evolution Of African Comedy – Part 1 engl/ger
    • shonareads book review: Njinga of Angola and Bulawayo Burning – engl/ger
    • A Male as a Female – The Evolution of African Comedy Part 2 – engl/ger
    • Midgroove_Inside Johannesburg Club Scene_Fotoserie von AndyMkosi
    • Midgroove Fotoreportage2 _ Interview mit/with AndyMkosi
    • Archive 2020
      • Shona_ Book Review – Rhodesia und Who killed Hammarskjöld?
      • Koloniale Abrechnung _ Roter Staub
      • Libreville_Politthriller aus Gabun
      • The White Savior Complex – Der Weisse Retter Komplex // Essay by Lorna Likiza – engl/ger
      • A Question of Tribe – Kenya und seine Ethnien/ and its tribes
      • When Hakuna Matata becomes a phrase in English – Und Disney afrikanische Traditionen kauft
      • African Author Spotlight – An Interview with Dennis Mugaa_ Engl/Ger
      • SiHene: Preserving Ghana’s Cultural Heritage – Interview with Founder Rita Mawuena Benissan engl/ger
      • African Author Spotlight – Interview with Peter Ngila Njeri – Engl/Ger
      • The House of Rust and Swahili Culture – Interview with Mombasa writer Khadija Abdalla Bajaber -engl
      • Ugandas First Woman – Author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi at the African Book Festival – Interview ger/engl
      • African Book Festival Berlin: Interview with South African curator Lidudumalingani_engl/ger
      • Ally Abdallah: The Book, the Festival, Zanzibar and the Nobel Prize winner – Interview engl/ger
      • Invisible Inventories – Nairobi – Cologne – now Frankfurt – Interview mit/with Leonie Neumann ger/engl
      • Barefoot in Germany – Interview with/mit Rwandan/German author Tete Loeper engl/ger
      • Tsitsi Dangarembga and much more: Orlanda Verlag /Publishing House Berlin- Interview ger/engl
      • Akono Publishing and Blog – Spot on Africa: Afrikanische Literaturen und Kultur sichtbar machen – Interview – ger/engl
      • Instilling a Reading Culture in African Children – Interview with Okenna Nzelu/Bright Lights Books engl/ger
      • I ve got the power! Interview with musician Melane ger/engl
      • Borga – Much more than a Movie – Interview mit/with Director York-Fabian Raabe – ger/engl
      • Pawnie Tribune – Passion for Coastal Culture and History Interview with/mit Albert Mwamburi engl/ger
      • Kenyan Cuisine has a lot to offer: Interview with Yvonne Mula
      • Avec Cameroun und mit Power aus Berlin: Initiative Perspektivwechsel – ger/french
      • “Bright Red Fruit” Safia Elhillo’s Masterful Exploration Using Verse Narratives Review by Frank Njugi engl-ger
  • über/about ca
    • The Team
    • Call for Submissions – Culture Africa a besoin de vos soumissions
    • Impressum
    • About cultureafrica_Über cultureafrica
    • Datenschutzerklärung
    • Join Our Team
  • Issues
    • Dive into Culture Africa 1st Issue – Non-Fiction from six African countries

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  • Africa,  Germany,  Literature Festival

    African Book Festival in Berlin – Three Days of Literature and Pleasure – deutsch-english

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    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 in Berlin 2022. A Report. engl/ger

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    Yesterday.Today.Tomorrow. That was the leitmotif of this year’s African Book Festival in Berlin. Finally without any restrictions, finally everything live and on the spot. The joy about this could be felt everywhere when you were out and about at the festival. Cultureafrica was media partner this year, but this should not distort the view when reporting about this event. By Hans Hofele/cultureafrica.net FÜR DEUTSCHE VERSION NACH UNTEN SCROLLEN But: Where does one start to report? About a literary event that is more than the sum of its events? Even in retrospect, it was a very intense long weekend. If you count the launch of InterKontinental on Thursday evening, it was four days in which you could get involved with…

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  • Interview,  Kenya,  Literature Festival,  Publishing/Verlag

    Centering Black Literature: An Interview with James Murua- engl/ger

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    In the run-up to the African Book Festival in Berlin, of which cultureafrica.net is a media partner, there will be a series of interviews with participants and experts in the African literary scene. This time it is James Murua. He is one of the most influential bloggers in the African literary scene. He has attended many literary festivals, both nationally and internationally. His website jamesmurua.com is one of the most successful on the continent. James Murua lives with his wife, the writer Zukiswa Wanner, in Nairobi, Kenya. The interview was conducted during the Heroe Book Fair literary festival in Mombasa.

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    Ugandas First Woman – Author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi at the African Book Festival – Interview ger/engl

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    Ugandas First Woman – Author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi at the African Book Festival – Interview ger/engl

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    What happens to a book when you address Africa as a readership? Africans should write the way they want to write. In Africa, we were brought up as if we were Europeans too. So when Europeans write, they don't think about Africans and whether we understand them. But when we write as Africans, we think about whether they will understand the way we write." If we Europeans think that we can read and understand Shakespeare, why was it not possible for the Germans, the English to read and understand how I write for Africans....

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  • Literature Festival,  Africa,  Germany,  South Africa

    African Book Festival Berlin: Interview with South African curator Lidudumalingani_engl/ger

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    This year’s edition of the African Book Festival Berlin has an impressive list of authors who will take part in the festival. Margaret Busby will be there, Igoni Barrett, JJ Bola, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and many more. Lidudumalingani Mqombothi is this year’s curator of the festival, which takes place from August 26th to 28th in Berlin. The native South African sees himself as a multimedia artist. Writing, photography, filmmaking. In 2016 he won the renowned Caine Prize for African Writing with the short story “Memories We Lost”. Two months before the festival, Hans Hofele didn’t just talk to him about literature. FÜr DEUTSCHE VERSION NACH UNTEN SCROLLEN HH: You once said “photography is like poetry in a picture”. You…

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  • Literature Festival,  Swahili,  Tanzania

    Ally Abdallah: The Book, the Festival, Zanzibar and the Nobel Prize winner – Interview engl/ger

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    It is a great event, a great surprise that Ally Abdalla has managed to pull off. For the first literature festival in Zanzibar, Ally was able to attract no less than the current winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Abdulraznak Gurnah. For Gurnah, who is from Zanzibar but had to leave the island in the 1960s, it is a triumphant event to be back. At the Heroe Book Fair in Mombasa, I spoke with author, filmmaker and organizer of the new cultural event in Zanzibar, Ally Abdalla.

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  • Guinea,  Literature Festival,  Veranstaltung/Event

    From Capital of Books to an International Book Event: Les 72 Heurs du Livre in Guinea- engl/ger/fre

    Trois collegiennes plongees dans des romans et livres pour ados lors des 72 heures du livre a Conakry

    This week, the book fair "72 Heures du Livre" starts for the 14th time in the capital Conakry of the West African Guinea. Book fair? Guinea? Exactly. What started here 14 years ago on a small scale has since developed into an international cultural event that has become known far beyond the borders of Guinea. In 2017, Conakry was even awarded the title "Capital du Livre" by UNESCO. An enormous boost and impetus for even more book-related activities.

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