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Namibian Premiere:“Virgin Margarida“, by Licinio Azevedo, Saturday, 30 November 2013, 19h00 at Goethe-Centre Windhoek
On Saturday, 30 November 2013, 19h00, AfricAvenir presents the Namibian Premiere of the Mozambican film "Virgin Margarida“ at Goethe-Centre Windhoek.nThe Mozambican fiction film “Virgin Margarida” was directed by Licinio Azevedo, and produced by Pedro Pimenta in 2012. The film length is 90 minutes. Adv. Bience Gawanas, Special Advisor to the Minister of Health and Social Service,…
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Kwame Opoku: Newly Discovered Nok Sculptures Exhibited for the First Time, not in Nigeria but in Germany
Cultural commentator Kwame Opoku expresses his astonishment about the recent first exhibition of newly discovered Nok Sculptures in Frankfurt, Germany. " This raises the question for whom the Nok pieces are of relevance. Whose history and culture could this new evidence enrich or clarify?", he states. In this article, he clarifies the context by raising…
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1. November 2013: Handing over the legacy of an African to the City of Berlin
On Friday, November 1, 2013, Prince and professor Kum´a Ndumbe III said farewell to the German capital after a longstanding, not always easy relationship with Germany and Berlin.nTo the Governing Mayor of Berlin,Mr Klaus Wowereit Dear Governing Mayor of Berlin,nI am writing to you from the house at Spichernstraße where Bertold Brecht und Helene Weigel once…
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Campagne Internationale Justice pour Sankara: Nouvelle profanation de la tombe présumée de Thomas Sankara
C’est avec consternation que les membres de la CIJS apprennent, ce 18 novembre 2013 de Ouagadougou, la nouvelle d’une nouvelle profanation de la tombe présumée de Thomas Sankara. Thomas SANKARA a été assassiné le 15 Octobre 1987 en compagnie d’une dizaine de ses camarades, vraisemblablement victimes d’un complot international et local. Le certificat de décès…
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Namibian Film Premiere: „Tey-Aujourd’hui“ by Alain Gomis, Saturday 26 October 2013, 19h00 at Goethe-Centre, Windhoek
AfricAvenir Windhoek invites to the Namibian Premiere of the Senegalese film "Tey-Aujourd’hui" by Alain Gomis, winner of FESPACO 2013, on Saturday, 26 October 2013, 7 pm, at the Goethe Centre, Windhoek. Alain Gomis‘ work is about people torn between cultures, about uprooted people, about people in motion, how they are drifting and being driven. The…
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Online-Publikation: Das letzte bekannte Interview mit Thomas Sankara vom 6.10.1987
Am 15. Oktober 2013, hat sich der Tod des außergewöhnlichen Staatsmannes Thomas Sankara zum 26. Mal gejährt. Anlässlich dieses Datums hat AfricAvenir dieses Interview, das wenige Tage vor seiner Ermordung von der damals in Kamerun lebenden deutschen Journalistin Inga Nagel geführt wurde, transkribiert und übersetzt. Einen Auszug dieses Interviews, das im November 1987 in Jeune…
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Pressemitteilung: Umwelt-, Entwicklungs- und Menschenrechtsorganisationen werfen der Bundesregierung eine verfehlte Rohstoffpolitik vor
AfricAvenir unterstuetzt die Forderungen des AK Rohstoffe für eine demokratische und global gerechte Rohstoffpolitik. Bisher haben 37 Organisationen die Forderungen mitunterzeichnet.nPressemitteilung nDie Bundesregierung setzt mit dem Deutschen Rohstofftag falsche Akzente nUmwelt-, Entwicklungs- und Menschenrechtsorganisationen werfen der Bundesregierung eine verfehlte Rohstoffpolitik vor nBerlin, 9. September 2013: nViele Produkte „Made in Germany“ sind stark von Rohstoffimporten abhängig.…
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Political Hip Hop from West Africa – Didier Awadi & band at Berlin Bohannon on Friday, 18 Octobre 2013, 9pm
Decidedly political, musically independent, humanly upright – Didier Awadi, the pioneer and star of Senegalese and West African Hip Hop will make you both dance and think. Accompanied by one Senegal’s best live bands, he will be presenting his new album “Ma Révolution” at Berlin’s Bohannon Club – a great mix of Hip Hop, West…
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Berlin Premiere: „Capitaine Thomas Sankara“ with Director Christophe Cupelin in Attendance, on Sunday, 13 October 2013 at 5 pm in Hackesche Höfe Kino
On the occasion of the 26th anniversary of Thomas Sankara’s assassination AfricAvenir invites you to the Berlin Premiere of the new and highly praised documentary “Capitaine Thomas Sankara” in presence of Christophe Cupelin at the Hackesche Höfe Kino on Sunday, 13 October 2013 at 5 pm. The portrait, composed exclusively of archival footage, of Thomas…
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Namibian Film Premier of Black Girl by director Ousmane Sembene on Wednesday, 09 October 2013, 18h30 at FNCC
On Wednesday, 09 October 2013, 18h30, AfricAvenir and the FNCC invite to the screening of La Noire de …. / Black Girl, by director Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 1966, 65 min. n"Of all African film directors, Sembene is the first to confer value to images."– Med HondonSynopsis:With La noire de… (Black Girl), a first and prize-winning…