2023 Festival Program
AFRICAN FUTURES - All Around & africologne
We celebrate the grand opening of the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) 2023 African Futures & the citizens' program African Futures - all Around.
RECOGNIZE, RESTITUTE AND REPAIR
For the first time, the africologneDIALOGFORUM will take place as part of the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), which will be hosted by the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) at the University of Cologne in ...
BRETT BAILEY | A THIRD WORLD BUNFIGHT PRODUCTION
In times of intolerance and polarization, Samson, a young man on a hero's mission, channels the anger of the oppressed population and wreaks terror on the people he blames for their oppression. As the body count rises, h...
Dance performance by Blick Bassy
In Blick Bassy's Afrofuturistic tale, the Queen of Nkolmesseng in present-day Cameroon leads a resistance through the centuries to liberate the continent from colonialism and all forms of imperialism. Her army, made up o...
by Futur3 (Cologne) & eX-para-Mental (Kumasi, Ghana)
To swap, English for swap, exchange, trade: the Ghanaian-German project Swap Families transfers these practices to the family microcosm. The artist collectives Futur3 (Cologne) and eX-para-Mental (Kumasi) send each other...
Feature film by MAMADOU DIA - Film screening & talk
In the Senegalese village of Yonti, Iman Tierno keeps his community together by ensuring spiritual cohesion. But the village's peace is threatened when his daughter gets engaged to the son of his estranged brother Ousman...
Concert
She is already regarded by many as a rising star on the international avant-garde neo-soul scene. Reinel Bakole is a Belgian-Congolese singer, expressionist, composer, dancer and performer.
by JOSEPHINE PAPKE | Interview and Reading
"For a long time, I thought it hurt me that I didn't fit in with the ideals. Then I understood that the norms of this violent society were not made for me. They are the ones that hurt me. But how much of the normative vi...
Discussions, festival coverage, essays—in cooperation with plateforme.de
The examination of dominance and violence is a characteristic of many post-colonial theater texts. The theater productions invited to africologne often deal with colonial, social and political-religious violence. The...
Talk and Reading
L'Ingérence tells the true story of civil engineer and development aid worker Jörg Lange in Burkina Faso, who was 'removed' from the country in 2005 after interfering in the affairs of power of former President Blaise ...
Based on the novel of the same name by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
In Kalep, a town in Sumal controlled by the brutal power of the Islamists, two young people are executed because they entered into a love affair. Resistance fighters try to oppose this new world order by publishing an un...
Workshop for Artists and Theater Enthusiasts
This performative training focuses on the creative state as well as the inner focus; among other things through bodywork, circle singing, concentration and action. How do you harmonize the three centers body, heart and b...