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Arts & Culture
The arts have without any doubt been crucial for the survival of Africa and Africans in the face of the slavers' and colonial aggression and repression. What do present African perspectives of contemporary art look like? Which are the current discourses? And how do artists define themselves and their art in the globalised world?
Kwame Opoku: Damage to Nok Scupture in Private Western Collection. Will Other African Artefacts End in this Way?
It has been reported in the New York Daily News that the widow of the French artist Arman, is suing in Manhattan Supreme Court for damage to a Nok sculpture caused during a photo shooting session for an art magazine. The sculpture fell and broke into pieces... |+| read article
On Film and cinema in Libya – Interview with Libyan film critic and festival director Ramadan Salim, by Hans-Christian Mahnke
Ramadan Salim was born 1953 in Azizia, Libya. He is writer, journalist, and film critic, who began writing in 1979 about Libyan literature and never stopped since. His work focuses on Arabic culture in general, and on Magreb literature and cinema in... |+| read article
Hans-Christian Mahnke: African Cinema, what it is, what challenges it encounters and possible ways forward
African cinema, Namibia based film activist Hans-Christian Mahnke writes, is an expression of a cultural identity, African cinema is the search for an own specific style and a way to overcome alien influences. In addition, African cinema plays... |+| read article
Review of "Juju Factory" by Hans-Christian Mahnke, AfricAvenir, Windhoek, Namibia
“Juju Factory” provides an adroit analysis of issues of immigration and integration. The film brilliantly questions ideas of “authentic” representations of “Africaness,” introducing a complex cinematic language that shows how contemporary African film... |+| read article
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