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“A Future Language That Can Bring Humans Together For Once” Bringing back art to its organic roots – into the human souls, into the echoes of nature. Letting art go with the flow– into a world functioning with artificial intelligence. Visual artist Canda Bruce Niyonkuru is not afraid of facing both sides of today’s existence. […]

Dorothée Munyaneza “The body is an instrument” As multi disciplinary is the best way Dorothée Munyaneza can describe her stage performance, located in theater, music, dance and storytelling. Whatever the discipline, one theme remains with the Rwandese artist: confronting the trauma of the Genocide against the Tutsi. Arlette-Louise Ndakoze met Dorothée Munyaneza in June 2018, at her performance during the “Theaterformen Festival” in Branschweig, where she performed her piece “Samedi Détente”.

Many academic disciplines in science, technology, engineering and maths tend to be dominated by men. There are a number of historical and social reasons for this, which persist today and keep women out of these disciplines. This is especially true for black women, who must also battle outdated cultural ideals that suggest they don’t “belong” in science. In today’s episode of Pasha, Ndoni Mcunu, a PhD Candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand, takes us through her story of being a black woman in science.

The 13th German-African Energy Forum (www.EnergyAfrica-Forum.com) is going to set the stage for German and Africa businesses as well as public enterprises to expand our economic ties, do deals, create jobs, combat energy poverty, and use German know-how to spur growth. The African energy industry will be in Hamburg on March 27th-28th, 2019 for this dialogue organized by the Afrika-Verein der deutschen Wirtschaft. Africa’s LNG production is rising and set to change global energy dynamics. South Africa is on a path to be an LNG producer, while Congo, Cameroon, Tanzania, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Mozambique, Rwanda and Sudan continue to show progress as potential LNG powerhouses. German companies with the right technology have the immediate benefit of investing and executing contracts in power projects around Africa.

Checkmate Mido (the dancing poet) is a performing artist(Musician/Poet/Rapper/Beatboxer) and certified trainer of the performing arts based in Nairobi, Kenya. He is widely known for his unique gift of merging different art forms together to create aninteresting, interactive and engaging performance. Writing in English, Swahili and Sheng (Kenyan Slang), he considers himself ‘a carrier of stories’, his work borrows from life, life experiences (his and others’) which he then creatively collects and weaves together through collaboration and music.

The ideation of restitution seemingly promises fundamental changes on the morphological scapes of politics & global mobility of ideas & people, Is it a convenient political ploy…? or a recognition of the extraordinary levels of historical violence, cultural & ecological harm…? Abstract: Emmanuel Macron’s promise of “temporary or definitive restitution of African cultural heritage to Africa” in November 2017 and its media circulation worldwide has given the question of colonial violence and lootings an unpreceded status. We are now experiencing culturally meaningful techniques of resistance for and against restitution all at once. Although the promise speaks to the changes in the landscape of politics and global mobility of ideas and people across all kinds of borders – gender, racial, national, political, personal, religious and so forth. It seems that the promise of restitution is a more convenient way of doing global politics rather than recognizing historical violence and cultural and ecological harm.

The ideation of restitution seemingly promises fundamental changes on the morphological scapes of politics & global mobility of ideas & people, Is it a convenient political ploy…? or a recognition of the extraordinary levels of historical violence, cultural & ecological harm…? Abstract: Emmanuel Macron’s promise of “temporary or definitive restitution of African cultural heritage to Africa” in November 2017 and its media circulation worldwide has given the question of colonial violence and lootings an unpreceded status. We are now experiencing culturally meaningful techniques of resistance for and against restitution all at once. Although the promise speaks to the changes in the landscape of politics and global mobility of ideas and people across all kinds of borders – gender, racial, national, political, personal, religious and so forth. It seems that the promise of restitution is a more convenient way of doing global politics rather than recognizing historical violence and cultural and ecological harm.

In the past few years the Fashion Africa Industry has developed a lot, now there are Fashion Weeks in many African countries; Kampala Fashion Week, Dakar Fashion Week to name a few. Fashion Industry related activities and workshops about the business of fashion are increasing and the media coverage is booming too. New fashion platforms, […]

In the past few years the Fashion Africa Industry has developed a lot, now there are Fashion Weeks in many African countries; Kampala Fashion Week, Dakar Fashion Week to name a few. Fashion Industry related activities and workshops about the business of fashion are increasing and the media coverage is booming too. New fashion platforms, more and more influencers and online magazines are at the forefront, focusing on the African Fashion industry. International magazines like Vogue Italia or Business of Fashion have already highlighted several African fashion players based around the globe. Fashion Africa Now wanted to know more about this positive development, and so we went about organising the incredible Fashion Soiree on the topic of The politics of African Fashion in collaboration with the Museum am Rothenbaum Hamburg. The soiree took place on the 12th of July 2018 and there were a number of remarkable outcomes that Fashion Africa Now saw come from the event.

The ideation of restitution seemingly promises fundamental changes on the morphological scapes of politics & global mobility of ideas & people, Is it a convenient political ploy…? or a recognition of the extraordinary levels of historical violence, cultural & ecological harm…? Abstract: Emmanuel Macron’s promise of “temporary or definitive restitution of African cultural heritage to Africa” in November 2017 and its media circulation worldwide has given the question of colonial violence and lootings an unpreceded status. We are now experiencing culturally meaningful techniques of resistance for and against restitution all at once. Although the promise speaks to the changes in the landscape of politics and global mobility of ideas and people across all kinds of borders – gender, racial, national, political, personal, religious and so forth. It seems that the promise of restitution is a more convenient way of doing global politics rather than recognizing historical violence and cultural and ecological harm.