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    • 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
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    • Dive into Culture Africa 1st Issue – Non-Fiction from six African countries
  • 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
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    • Join Our Team
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    • Dive into Culture Africa 1st Issue – Non-Fiction from six African countries

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White Myths- Black History/Weiße Mythen – Schwarze Geschichte – Michael Harriot: Black as F***

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    Book Market,  Kenya,  Projects/Projekte

    Nuria Book Store – Customers First! Behind the scenes of one of Africa’s biggest Online Bookstores_ english/deutsch

    Hans

    A success story from Kenya: Nuria bookstore is the biggest online book store in East Africa. From its headquarter in Nairobi, Abdullahi Bulle manages the distribution and customer service of Nuria. A clever customer orientated online surface makes it easy for sellers and buyers. And the big threat Amazon ist still far away. The online market can be an advantage for native companies like Nuria. We have a talk with founder Abdullahi Bulle.

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    Africa,  Germany,  Literature Festival

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

    Hans

    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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    Interview,  Kenya,  Literatur/Book Review,  Swahili

    The House of Rust and Swahili Culture – Interview with Mombasa writer Khadija Abdalla Bajaber -engl

    Hans

    Khadija Bajaber had written a successful book last year, The House of Rust, which was recognized very well in african countries and abroad (see also the review of Lorna Likiza on this site). Raised and living in Mombasa, Kenya, she is strongly influenced with Swahili Culture and its long and rich history. This year, Khadija Bajaber is an invited guest at the African Book Festival in Berlin. I took the chance to talk to her before she left for Europe. And, yes, the answers are longer than in usual interviews. But its published here in full lenght version. For the first issue, only in english this time.

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    Book Fair,  Africa,  Germany,  Interview

    African Book Festival Berlin 2023: Boost for African Literature in Germany. Interview mit/with Co-Organizer Venice Trommer

    Hans

    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 briefly broke out in the German media. The past of the well-known author , who was innocently imprisoned in Guanánamo for years, was again publicly…

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    Africa,  Geschichte/History,  Literatur/Book Review

    An Uncomfortable Truth: Howard W. French: Born in Blackness – Afrika und die Entstehung der modernen Welt_deutsch_englisch

    Hans

    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, France and England, later also the slave-holding nation USA, possible. Afrika und die Entstehung der modernen Welt, auf deutsch jetzt bei Klett-Cotta erschienen, ist als…

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    Book Review/Rezension,  USA

    Maud Martha von Gwendolyn Brooks – A literary jewel is now available in German – deutsch/englisch

    Hans

    It is a small miracle that this book exists. Seventy years after its first publication in the U.S., Maud Martha has now been published in Germany by the classic publisher Manesse. It is the only novel by author Gwendolyn Brooks. Brooks became famous for her poetry; she was also the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1950.

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    Africa,  social media

    Africa’s most successful YouTubers – Top10 Ranking deutsch_english

    Hans

    Who are the most successful YouTubers in Africa, apart from the big music video kings? The answers to this question can be found in the current ranking by cultureafrica.net. Subscribers are the most important indicator in the ranking. But total views and estimated value also play a role. Find it out!

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    Art/Kunst,  Event,  Kenya,  Kunst/Art

    Is there Anybody Out There? Nairobi Space Station – Kairos Futura Artist Project Starts this March_deutsch/englisch

    Hans

    They look like the futuristic Space Guerilla. From 18 March, they will make Kanairo unsafe. That is the Sheng name for Kenya's capital Nairobi. The venerable MacMillian Library in the centre will kick off the launch. It becomes a space station. They have camels with them with Massai blankets. The olive overalls are well tailored, the steel masks make them look martial. With this project, the Kairos Futura artists' group puts a big exclamation mark on Nairobi's Design Week. But it is not only about spectacle. The artists' collective, consisting of artists, designers, scientists and environmentalists, wants more: visions and proposals for an environmentally friendly Nairobi. It is about reclaiming urban space, about the "rewilding" of inner-city areas. They are also supported by famous Wajuuku Arts collective, Nairobi based and worldwide recognized.

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    Uganda,  Interview,  Music

    Uganda’s Queen of Afrosoul: An Interview with Music Star Lilian Mbabazi_english/german

    Hans

    Lilian Mbabazi is a Ugandan artiste of Rwandan descent best remembered for her time in the girl group Blu*3. Now a fully fledged solo artiste, with a new EP out, she recently sat down with Culture Africa Founder, Hans Hofele, with additional questions from Staff Writer, Lorna Likiza, for an interview on her music, style and future plans.

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    Art/Kunst,  Gesellschaft/Society,  Kenya

    Bringing Art to the Masses – Interview with Patrick Mukabi – engl_ger

    Hans

    Patrick Mukabi is a Kenyan Visual Artist, Graphic Designer, Dad and Mentor, best known for his appreciation of the African female form. In this interview with Lorna Likiza and Hans Hofele, he talks about his journey as an artist and why the middle class in Kenya are yet to fully appreciate art.

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