Mr Mda adds a touch of magic to the grim realism more common in accounts of black South African life. He tells of Toloki, a professional mourner clad in a raggedy top hat and tight trousers, who witnesses the many ways to expire. Read the rest of this entry »
Ein halbes Jahrhundert nach Beginn der Entkolonialisierung liegt Europas Schatten noch immer über Afrika. Der Band enthält Beiträge von Prof. Kum’ a Ndumbe III., Yves Ekoué Amaizo, u.a. Read the rest of this entry »
Ossie Jones is an immigration lawyer in Brixton, London, a place full of wordmongers, preachers and prophets. One day he falls into a coma, is arrested for a crime he has not committed and is locked up in prison with a triple-lifer. Biyi Bandele’s witty and engaging play is in a world in which fantasy may, troublingly, be more real than reality. Brixton Stories premiered at The Tricycle Theatre, London, 2001.
By Mudimbe, V.Y., Indiana U. Press, 241pp, UK/USA, 1988. What is Africa? What does it mean to be African? What is the relationship between philosophy and “Africanism”? Proceeding from these questions, Mudimbe (who teaches comparative literature at Duke University) undertakes an “archaeology of knowledge” of Africa south of the Sahara. Read the rest of this entry »
Nine programs of 55 min. each, BBC produced with Ali A. Mazrui, 1986. This nine part series presents Africans facing a triple heritage of traditional African, Islamic, and Western cultures. Read the rest of this entry »
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. A must-read for anybody involved in ‘development’. Escobar examines the discourse and apparatus of development since 1949, and the construction of the notion of ‘under-development’ in economic theories. Read the rest of this entry »
Temps de Chien, demeure à ce jour, l’une des oeuvres clées de la littérature contemporaine camerounaise. [grioo]
Gesammelte Reden von Prof. Kum’ a Ndumbe III. zu Interkulturalität und Kulturdialog, und zum neuen Aufbruch in Afrika. Read the rest of this entry »
Gesammelte Reden von Prof. Kum’ a Ndumbe III. über die Beziehungen Afrikas zu Europa und zur Außenwelt, über Kolonialpolitik, Nationalsozialismus und Rassismus. Read the rest of this entry »
Dieses heitere und humorvolle Dokumentarstück über die deutsche Kolonialzeit in Kamerun gibt die Ereignisse von der Souveränitätsübertragung an das Deutsche Reich im Jahre 1884 bis zur Hinrichtung von König Rudolf Duala Manga Bell durch die deutsche Verwaltung 1914 wieder. Read the rest of this entry »