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The series of talks curated by Grada Kilomba invited refugee artists to the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin between 2015 and 2017. The focus of the 13 talks was the question of how systems of knowledge and representation can be artistically and politically transformed, de-colonized, rewritten.

Bonga Kuenda is a singer/songwriter from Angola who has produced over 30 albums with anti-colonial and dissident content since the 1970s. His music contains elements of semba, kizomba, Portuguese folk and samba.

Still every year on October 12 in some states of the Americas is officially celebrated “Columbus Day”. This day marks…

The Understanding Slavery Initiative is a project in the United Kingdom that seeks to promote, in collaboration with archives and…

Chinua Achebe is considered one of the preeminent English-language writers and an icon of English-language African literature. He is the…

Pambazuka News is a Pan-African online and email newsletter. It was developed in 2000 by members of Pan-African Communities in…

Daily Resistance is “newspaper published and written by people, so-called refugees, who don’t accept their disfranchisement by the German state.…