Echoes of the South Atlantic, courtesy of Goethe-Institut

Conferences 

Echoes of the South Atlantic

What is the status of Atlantic relations between Africa, South America, the Caribbean and Europe today? Echoes ...

AFROLUTION 2019 – Panafricanism REVIS [IT] ED

Festivals 

AFROLUTION 2019 – Panafricanism REVIS [IT] ED

From 13 to 16 June 2019 EOTO presents the second edition of it’s literary and cultural festival AFROLU ...

A group photo of some of the participants and curators. Photo: Enos Nyamor

Membrane – African Literatures and Ideas 

Occupying the Silence Between Languages

As fancy yachts sailed to Venice, ferrying aesthetes to one of today’s most prestigious art exhibitions, a g ...

Installation view of a exhibition at the new Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar, Senegal. Photo: Maya Varichon

Museum of Black Civilisations Dakar 

Restitution Alone is Not the Answer

Hearing that the gigantic Museum of Black Civilisations was being inaugurated in my hometown, Dakar – in Dec ...

MEMBRANE – African Literatures and Ideas

Festivals 

MEMBRANE – African Literatures and Ideas

A membrane is as delicate as it is unobtrusive: A thin skin which is permeable for liquids and gases. Literatu ...

Membrane – Festival of African Books and Ideas

Call for papers 

Membrane – Festival of African Books and Ideas

Reflecting on the deconstruction of borders in Africa, Achille Mbembe says »the business of a border is, in f ...

Cover detail of Felwine Sarr's book

Talks / Workshops 

»Afrotopia« An Evening with Felwine Sarr & Bénédicte Savoy

Felwine Sarr, economist from Senegal, is one of the most discussed thinkers in Africa. He vehemently demands t ...

Unvergleichlich: Kunst aus Afrika im Bode-Museum (Beyond Compare: Art from Africa in the Bode-Museum), Installation view © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics 

The First Reactions to the Report on Restitution of Looted Art

Europe’s cultural sector is still reeling from a report presented to the French president Emmanuel Macron la ...

Rajkamal Kahlon. Altered cover of Die Völker Der Erde, by Kurt Lampert, 2017. Ink and gouache on bookcovers. Courtesy the artist.

Report commissioned by French President Emmanuel Macron is out today 

108 Pages On The Restitution Of Looted Art From Africa

“Behind the mask of beauty, the question of restitution invites us to go right to the heart of a system of a ...

 © Oumy Diaw

Conferences 

Biennale of Contemporary African Art: Meetings and Exchanges

The Biennale of Contemporary African Art Dak’Art 2018 presents are rich programm of Meetings and Exchang ...

Musa N. Nxumalo, Anthology of Youth, Doowap 2, 2016. Giclee Print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag. Courtesy Smac Gallery

African Biennale of Photography  

Bamako Hypothesizes the Future without Neglecting the Past

In his book Afrotopia, the Senegalese economist and scholar Felwine Sarr advocates for a new Africa as a place ...

Zied Ben Romdhane 'West of Life' (2014-2016)

Rencontres de Bamako – 11th African Biennale of Photography : ‘Afrotopia’

Organised by the Malian Ministry of Culture and the Institut français, and directed by Samuel Sidibé, Direct ...


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