LESUNG: Afrika im (Welt-)krieg

In the organizer's words:

An accompanying event as part of the exhibition "The Third World in the Second World War" of the NS-Dok

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Reading:
Thomas Brückner (reciter and translator of African literature, Leipzig) &
Agnes Lampkin (actress at Theater Münster) Musical accompaniment:
Melchi Vepouyoum (guitar & vocals, Bonn/Cameroon)

I stand at the feet of Égalité / petrified in the Lincoln Memorial / I stand at the feet of Égalité / with a serious expression, my hands in chains / on the ancient back of slavery". This is how the Cameroonian-French musician and writer Francis Bebey (1929-2001) described the dichotomy between Eurocentric, "value-oriented" mendacity and the painfully experienced, contradictory reality that led to uprisings in the colonies at the end of the two world wars to date and ultimately to national independence. African intellectuals, and poets in particular, gave expression to this and thus promoted self-confidence and self-determination.
Agnes Lampkin (actress), Melchi Vepouyoum (guitar) and Thomas Brückner (concept, text selection, narrator) present texts by, among others by the Nobel Prize winners Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) and Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania/UK), by Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal) and Ngũgī wa Thiong'o (Kenya) as well as by Buchi Emecheta, Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo and Rotimi Babatunde (Nigeria).
They provide a deeper insight into the topic and tell of a small section of African reality between love and anger.

In cooperation with: Literaturhaus Köln; African Perspectives (Münster), Sonnenblumen Community Development Group e.V.;
Theodor Wonja Michael Library; Afrika Film Festival Köln / FilmInitiativ Köln e.V.; Allerweltshaus Köln e.V.; Eine Welt Netz NRW