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Mambo Moto Moto
The Rudolstadt Dance & Folk Fest (TFF) in Thuringia is Germany’s largest and most famous world music festival. The 2014 TFF festival, titled “Mambo Moto Moto – Music from Tanzania”, presented the latest trends in the urban music scenes of Dar es...
African Mobilities
The exhibition “African Mobilities” at the Architekturmuseum in Munich featured the current state of architecture in Africa in the context of migration, displacement and digital technologies. Its focus was on the rapidly growing cities of Africa...
The Choreonauts
The Bremen-based dance company “steptext dance project” is developing a new project titled “THE CHOREONAUTS”, in which three internationally renowned choreographers from South Africa, Nigeria and the Ivory Coast will collaborate with three German...
Chinafrika. under construction
Both China and the African continent are regions of the world in which many see the future of globalisation. While observers have been closely watching the complex economic and political ties being forged between China and African countries, their...
Cours, cours, camarade, le vieux monde est derrière toi!
Since the 1970s Med Hondo has gained a reputation as one of the most important experimental filmmakers of Africa, and his works have influenced numerous international filmmakers. Hondo was born in Mauritania in 1936, moved to Morocco as a teenager...
KINSHASA Collection
Despite the precarious living conditions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the ongoing armed conflicts in the eastern half of the country, the capital of Kinshasa has established itself as one of the leading fashion metropolises on the...
SANCTUARY
The refugee crisis is slowly fading from view. The political negotiations between the EU and countries of northern and western Africa, along with the agreement with Turkey, have shifted the focus to supposedly political solutions. Yet the...
Stolen Moments: Namibian Music History Untold
Namibian pop music between 1950 and 1980, in other words, the musical culture of the townships which the ruling Apartheid government attempted to suppress, is the focus of a collaboration between the Iwalewa House in Bayreuth and the Stolen Moments...
LusAfro
Here in Germany, Portuguese-language (Lusophone) music from African countries is even lesser known than Francophone or Anglophone African music. Apart from the world-famous Cape Verdean singer Cesária Évora, there is a multifaceted scene of Lusophone...
LowHighTech. E-waste for 3DprintAfrica!
The internationally acclaimed Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor has called for a new vocabulary for discussing design in Africa. In his opinion, concepts like recycling, restoration and informality require new interpretation so that we can productively...