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In/Audible Sounds
Contemporary pop music from African countries continues to be labelled with stereotypical, exoticised attributes and is frequently reduced to pop-cultural genres like Afrobeat and Afrojazz. Very few people realise, however, that Africa has a diverse...
Afropean Mimicry & Mockery in Theatre, Performance & Visual Arts
... in Theatre, Performance & Visual Arts Mimicry and mockery form a common thread which runs through centuries of African-European encounter. Appropriation and segregation, demonisation and exaggeration, affirmation and over-affirmation all have a...
Chasing Rainbows
South Africa is witnessing the largest wave of public protests since the end of Apartheid in 1994. In March 2015, a student from the University of Cape Town (UCT) smeared excrement onto a monument of the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes which sparked...
Afro-Tech, and the Future of Re-Invention
Rwanda wants to become Africa’s Silicon Valley. The African Internet market is booming and promises lucrative returns. This development also means that conventions of Western technology are frequently imitated, thereby hindering alternative, radical...
Sisters in African Cinema
In recent years, women from African countries have started numerous film projects, established production companies and casting agencies and organised film festivals – from the Ivory Coast to Nigeria and all the way to Zimbabwe. In effect, they are...
Visionary Archive
"Visionary Archive" was a collaborative translocal experiment: Phases and facets of African cinema were researched in five localities. For this project, five archives with very different backgrounds teamed up to develop new presentation forms for...
Contemporary Photography in Bamako and Dakar
Contemporary photography from Mali and Senegal has drawn increasing attention from the international art world since the 1990s. Especially vibrant scenes have developed in the metropolitan cities of Dakar and Bamako where numerous photographers are...
The Great Lakes
Cinema has become a tool of reconciliation for the violence-ridden region of the Great Lakes. Colonial-era boundaries and natural resources have led to a never-ending chain of civil wars, ethnic cleansing and genocide since the 1960s. A young...
Streamlines
Waterways have always been used to move and exchange people, goods and ideas. As international trade expanded, new raw materials were tapped and the demand for exotic products increased in Europe in the 19th century, oceans and waterways became the...
What Boundaries?!
The German-Malawian cooperation project “What Boundaries?!” incorporated the music of two continents into a series of new compositions. The Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra from Germany and the Lusobilo Band from Malawi teamed up to develop a joint...