“We all carry a piece of the Congo in our pockets – our smartphones.” YvesNdagano, COLTAN-FIEBER: CONNECTING PEOPLE In Coltan Fever: Connecting People, a former child soldier and miner returns to the places of his childhood in the Democratic Republic...
Afrikan Party is a futuristic ode to the richness and diversity of African cultures. Set in the year 2090, it follows the story of a child born and raised in the United States of Africa—a vision of unity and pride. Through this lens, Afrikan Party celebrates African...
Makeda is fascinated by a lifeless-looking face at the window opposite. The face, which sometimes looks like that of an old woman, sometimes like that of a young woman, distracts her thoughts from Bernard, her lover, for whom she is waiting in vain. At the...
Take the Stage is a platform for BIPoCs aged 10 and up from the Cologne area to share their stories, voices, and talents with the community—part of the africologneLOCAL programme.Whether it’s music, spoken word, magic, dance, stand-up comedy, or something entirely...
As the global community slowly awakens to the urgent need to protect the Congo Basin—one of the planet’s largest carbon sinks—the local population once again finds itself caught in the crossfire of geopolitical interests. For ECOSYSTEM, the artist collective...
