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Program 2023
We celebrate the grand opening of the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) 2023 African Futures & the citizens' program African Futures - all Around.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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.
"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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Archive program booklets
Festival 2021 / May 28 – September 8
Festival 2019 / June 17-30
Festival 2017 / June 14-24
Festival 2015 / June 17-27
Festival 2013 / June 12-22
