Conversations, Talks, Reading, Music, Screening
1884, the Imperial Chancellor of the German Empire, Otto von Bismarck, convened a conference in Berlin to organise the division of the African continent among the industrial and military powers of the time. The so-called Berlin Conference, which lasted until 1885, was attended by fourteen European countries, the United States and the Ottoman Empire. Their main objective was to secure their extractivist and commercial interests.
The result was a profound dismemberment of Africa's original political structures, which left a lasting mark on its political, economic and social history.
140 years after this overpowering event, it seems urgent to disentangle the complex of colonial appropriation, identify its after-effects and erase its epistemological legacy.
Deberlinisation, curated by Ibou Coulibaly Diop and Franck Hermann Ekra, does just that in the symbolic place where this complex originated – in Berlin – with activists and personalities from various fields: the visual and performing arts, film, music, architecture, literature, economics, the humanities and social sciences, and political theory.
with
Yousra Abourabi, Didier Awadi, Memory Biwa, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Simukai Chigudu, Mansour Ciss Kanakassy, Daniele Daude, Nikita Dhawan, Mamadou Diouf, Soeuf Elbadawi, Christine Eyene, Tiken Jah Fakoly, N’Goné Fall, Julia Grosse, Maguèye Kassé, Maame A.S. Mensa-Bonsu, Célestin Monga, Simon Njami, Ladan Osman, Raphaëlle Red, Djelifily Sako, Alioune Sall Paloma, Maboula Soumahoro, Ẹniọlá Ànúolúwapọ́ Ṣóyẹmí, Hildegard Titus, Abdourahman Waberi, Hyam Yared, Abdenour Zahzah
Additional information
- In various languages with simultaneous translation into German, English, and French
Dates
April 2025
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