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Return to Sender
There is still a long way to go before Europe is able to look at the non-Western World without its colonial glasses. Perhaps the answer lies in repositioning Europe's role in the world, as voiced by one of Africa’s leading intellectuals, Achille...
Sorry
Inspired by the horror movies of the Nollywood film industry, the German theatre group Monster Truck and the Nigerian theatre group The Footprints are collaborated on a production titled “Sorry” about vampires and other creatures of the night. On...
OSHI-DEUTSCH: The GDR Children of Namibia
The theatre production “Oshi-Deutsch” told the story of the so-called “GDR children” of Namibia. In 1978, the South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) were fighting for independence from what was at that time South West Africa and its...
Obisike – The Heart of a Lioness
What is polis ? Who belongs to it and who is allowed to shape it – and who isn’t? What duties are demanded from members of a society? Can one balance one’s intuition and sentiment with one’s obligation to society? Can one challenge the “truths” of...
Msonkhano.de/ Begegnungen.mw
The project “Msonkhano.de/ Begegnungen.mw” (Encounters) was a collaboration between the Hannover theatre collective Fräulein Wunder AG and the Solomonic Peacocks Theatre from Blantyre. The groups jointly produced a play that addressed the question...
The Unprotected. Les Zéros-Morts.
The French term “zéro-mort” means “no casualty”, but can also be interpreted as a “casualty with no value”. This theatre production investigates the European Union’s and German government’s policies on immigration and asylum. How do we deal with...
Fin de Machine / Exit. Hamlet
Cameroon’s capital of Yaoundé was founded by the German colonial administration in 1889 as a research station for the ivory trade. In the German-Cameroonian coproduction “Fin de Maschine / Exit. Hamlet”, the Bochum ensemble “kainkollektiv” and the...
African Futures
“If you want to have any idea of the world that is coming, the world ahead of us, look at Africa!”, says Cameroonian writer and intellectual Achille Mbembe. From Lagos to Nairobi to Johannesburg, the continent is giving answers to global questions of...
Maji Maji Flava
Between 1905 and 1907, the Maji Maji uprising challenged the colonial administration of German-East Africa and was eventually quelled in the most brutal fashion. Since the 1960s, the uprising has become a national legend in post-colonial Tanzania...
A Labour of Love
The Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt/Main has been collecting contemporary African art since 1974; its collection now comprises some 3,000 artworks. The exhibition “A Labour of Love” featured South African works from this collection along with...
