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Our house
“Our House” was a joint project by the HELIOS Theater in Hamm and the Ishyo Arts Centre in Kigali to develop a theatre piece for children and adults on the subject of memory. The ensemble began by conducting research in Hamm and Kigali. They visited...
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...
Talking about Sahel
Since Muammar al-Gaddafi was overthrown in 2011 during the Arab Spring uprisings in Libya, the Sahel region has struggled to regain stability. It has become the scene of assassinations and hostage-takings, a centre of the weapons and drug trade, and...
The Congo Tribunal
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is rich in natural resources valued at an estimated 300 billion dollars. In light of the rising demand for raw materials around the world in past decades, this wealth in gold, diamonds and coltan has thrown the...
Lampedusa: Photo Stories from the Edge of Europe
In recent years we have become accustomed to images of African refugees in distress at sea. When reporting these incidents, the media either play on the stereotypical belief that the refugees in the overladen boats represent a threat to Europe, or...
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...
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...
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...
Künstliche Tatsachen / Artificial Facts
Kunsthaus Dresden - Municipal Gallery for Contemporary Art launched a trans-national research, art and exhibition project "Artificial Facts", in conjunction with a group of artists, ethnologists, historians and curators from South Africa, Benin and...
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...