Reflections

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Haus der Berliner Festspiele | Foyer

African and African Diasporic Authors
Presented by: Flora Veit-Wild
While Chirikure Chirikure (Zimbabwe) and Henrietta Rose-Innes (South Africa) live and work in their native countries, Kossi Efoui (Togo/France), and Helon Habila (Nigeria/USA) have left Africa. Together they will discuss the writing process in and outside of Africa.

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Haus der Berliner Festspiele | Große Bühne

Crossing Africa: Migration into the Paradise Europe? Azouz Begag (France), Fatou Diome (Senegal/France), Elisabeth Hack (Cameroon/Germany), Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla (Spain), Rickard Sandell (
Presented by: Marianne Heuwagen
Many Africans head off towards Europe – often at the risk of losing their lives. The number of people in migration and flight from Africa isn’t comparable with anywhere else on the globe. 10,000 African refugees have drowned while attempting to reach Europe in recent years, according to estimates by the EU-Commission. How should the Europeans deal with this (partially self-induced) challenge?

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Literaturhaus | Kaminraum

African Feminist Movements. A discussion with Susan Kiguli (Uganda) and Grada Kilomba (Portugal /Germany)
Presented by: Abisara Machold
When Susan Kiguli’s literary debut was published, she was explicitly labelled a “woman poet”; today she is still asked, what it is like to be a woman as well as a writer. She asks: “Why emphasize that a writer is female?” Grada Kilomba sees herself as a "Black female writer". "We have to understand that gender and 'race' are inseparably connected to each other. Racist constructions are based on gender roles, and vice verSat, gender influences the manner in which 'race' is constructed. It is important for me", she says, "to reflect these complexity in my writings."

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Haus der Berliner Festspiele | Große Bühne

Alice Schwarzer in discussion with Necla Kelek (Germany), with musical accompaniment by the group TAN
For her latest book, “Bittersüße Heimat. Bericht aus dem Inneren der Türkei”, Necla Kelek traveled from Istanbul to Kurdistan, in a country whose historical relevance and beauty one can barely escape. She tells of the fissures and ruptured mentalities, the political contradictions and social break-ups, but also of the people who do something to counter the core culture of Islam in its current form.