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Chimurenga Chronic
A pan-African newspaper project In order to increase awareness of the art scenes and cultural debates in African countries, the Federal Cultural Foundation is cooperating with the art and cultural magazine “Chimurenga” for the first time as part of...
The Nose
The Nose
TheMuseumsLab – Collaborations
TheMuseumsLab is an exchange programme which allows staff from African and European museums to jointly explore the history, current situation and future of museums on both continents.
Humboldt Lab Tanzania
In the historic heart of Berlin, curators are busy developing the new Humboldt Forum in the reconstructed Berlin Castle which features a unique combination of art, culture, education and science. The premises will also house the Ethnological Museum...
More Aphrike
In her essay “Bye-Bye, Babar” (2005), the British author Taiye Selasi describes a new generation of cosmopolitans of African descent who feel as much at home in the metropolitan cities of Africa as they do in Europe or the United States. She calls...
La nouvelle pensée noire / New black thinking
A “chefferie” is a political/administrative body which existed in numerous countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in pre-colonial times and still operates today according to its own rules alongside state organisations. A chefferie which can mean a group of...
Space Tales - Future Cities
The issue of exclusion has always played a central role with respect to urban spaces. Although today’s world of globalised capitalism promotes universality and the fiction of multicultural tolerance, respect, human rights and democracy, the...
Imagined Realities
For the project “Imagined Realities”, the Goethe Institut in Lagos invited the renowned Nigerian comics artist Laolu Senbanjo and the German author/illustrator Birgit Weyhe to develop a two-volume graphic novel. While Nigeria has a vibrant comics...
Comédie?Humaine 21st
The East African country of Burundi has been entrenched in political crisis for years, marked by human rights violations, despotism and violent protests between opponents and supporters of the regime. How do people live from day to day in an...
That, Around Which The Universe Revolves
Rhythm exists wherever space, time and energy intersect, according to the late French sociologist and philosopher Henri Lefebvre in his book Rhythmanalysis . Rhythm is an inherent part of our everyday life, in our movements through space and our...
