NAB Newsletter of African Studies at the University of Bayreuth

Bayreuth Academy Learning for the Future Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Education(s) and Future(s) in Africa and beyond

Exhibition: Longing for the Future A successful collaboration between the Bayreuth Academy, the Centre for African Studies in Basel and the Iwalewahaus

BIGSAS 10thAnniversary Members of BIGSAS on what it means to be excellent and shaping the graduate school together

Ways forward in BIGSAS partnerships BIGSAS welcomes its African Partner Universities coordinators and other guests from Algeria

Iwalewahaus FAVT - Future Africa Visions in Time Indeed a process! The Bayreuth Academy signature exhibition two years after its inception

Summer exhibitions 2017 Graffiti in Bayreuth by Assil Diab aka Ndidi Dike, Ruth Weiss, EXODUS STATIONS #2, SPACES, “Floating Sudalove at 49° Grenzüberschreitungen Bodies”, Lieblingsstücke Festival “Spaces. Perception. Reflection. Intervention”

Vol. XVII 2017 EDITORIAL

The IAS Editorial

The Institute of African Studies 2007-2017 is a memorable decade in the lives of over 109 young scholars who (IAS) has several main functions: it obtained their PhDs in the Bayreuth International Graduate School of Afri- coordinates Africa-related research can Studies (BIGSAS). It is also a remarkable period for Bayreuth research- and teaching at the University of ers who have spent years researching Africa. This volume, NAB XVII 2017, Bayreuth and promotes cooperation Newsletter of African Studies at the University of Bayreuth, commemorates the with African universities and research 10th Anniversary of BIGSAS. By doing so, NAB acknowledges the extensive institutions, as well as with national - and international institutes of African bution to the internationalisation plan of the University of Bayreuth and the influence BIGSAS has had on junior fellows from around the world, its contri studies. visibility it has given African Studies not only in Germany but in Europe and beyond. The highly multicultural and multinational composition of BIGSAS is African studies is one of the cross- proof of its reach to all parts of the world, from Austria to Zimbabwe. The in- discipline research priorities of terviews with Dymitr Ibriszimow and Christine Scherer offer a glimpse into the University of Bayreuth, as set the successes and challenges of BIGSAS in these 10 years. out in the Mission Statement and the University Development Plan. The IAS thus seeks to promote and coordinate the research and institutions,As in the past, especially this volume the Bayreuthalso highlights Academy, some TGCL of the and major the Iwalewahaus.research and teaching activities of approximately outreach activities of the Institute of African Studies (IAS) and its affiliate 100 researchers on a cross-faculty year 2017 are compiled here in a bit to showcase the viability of the African and interdisciplinary basis, as well studiesInternational focus ofconferences, the University research of Bayreuth. projects, guests and exhibitions in the as training for young researchers in Africa-related disciplines. There are We would like to thank everyone who took part in the production of this vol- currently about 50 professors and ume of NAB. Franz Kogelmann, the academic coordinator of the IAS, as always, about 50 other researchers who are provided the much needed logistical support. The IAS funded a student assis- engaged in research in Africa and tant, Lionel Sango, who compiled the submissions and facilitated the produc- who teach Africa-related courses, in tion process. To the regular contributors, we say thank you for your reliable Faculties II (Biology, Chemistry and and supportive collaboration all through the editing and production process. Earth Sciences), III (Law, Business Administration and Economics), IV As a reminder to our contributors, contributions to NAB are expected in No- (Languages and Literatures) and V vember of every year. This deadline as well as the guidelines for preparing (Cultural Studies). NAB contributions if followed closely makes the production process much lighter – thanks for your cooperation. The IAS initiates cross-disciplinary research projects and supports We wish you all the best for 2018! common Africa-related applications for external funding. The IAS budget is administered and supervised by the executive board. Eric A. Anchimbe (Editor-in-chief) On behalf of the editorial team

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Welcome

With some delay though, NAB XVII the 10th Anniversary of our signature graduate school, The Bayreuth Interna- tional Graduate School of African Studies is finally (BIGSAS). out! This Founded volume in 2007is dedicated as part toof the Excellence Initiative, BIGSAS has in the ten-year period, 2007-2017 graduated 109 PhDs – a highly commendable achievement that has not only granted more national and international visibility to the University of Bayreuth but has - tute of African Studies, I wish to congratulate the Junior and Senior Fellows, thealso Administrative projected African staff, Studies Postdoc to fellows,new heights student globally. assistants As Director and IT managersof the Insti of BIGSAS – current and past – for the great achievements commemorated in this volume. We are proud of you and of what you have done!

While BIGSAS is the focus here, this volume also presents the activities, re- -

ofsearch Advanced projects, African conferences, Studies (BA), publications, the Iwalewahaus guests, etc.and ofthe the Tanzanian-German Institute of Afri Centrecan Studies for Eastern (IAS) andAfrican its affiliate Legal Studies institutions, (TGCL). namely The success the Bayreuth of the activities Academy in 2017 reported on in this volume attest to the consistent efforts members of the Institute have put in. For this, I wish to thank all of them for their contributions in giving the Institute and the Africa focus of the University of Bayreuth the status it has today.

By way of foretaste, the next level of the Excellence Initiative, now called the Excellence Strategy, is also here. I am proud to announce that Bayreuth’s application for a Cluster of Excellence was successful and that the Cluster “Africa

will be the main focus of NAB XVIII 2018. Stay tuned! Multiple: Reconfiguring African Studies” will go operational in January 2019. It Finally, let me take this chance to thank all colleagues, collaborators, guests,

and achievements in 2017. Your feedback has spurred us even more, and for that wefriends are grateful.and students of the IAS and its affiliate institutions for the great work

Happy reading!

Rüdiger Seesemann Director, Institute of African Studies

NAB XVII - 2017 3 CONTENTS

2 — Editorial 3 — Welcome Selection of photos for the BIGSAS article

6 – BIGSAS Anniversary: Ten 6 — BIGSAS 10thAnniversary! years ago the 9 — Memories of BIGSAS graduate school 12 — Interview Christine Scherer was introduced 14 — Interview Dymitr Ibriszimow to the public with a special opening ceremony

16 — Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies

16 — Learning for the Future Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Education(s) 2007: the beginning of BIGSAS, opening ceremony and Future(s) in Africa and beyond 16 – Longing for 18 — Exhibition: Longing for the Future the future: the A successful collaboration between the team of curators Bayreuth Academy, the Centre for African Katharina Schie- Studies in Basel and the Iwalewahaus. kofer, Clemens Bechtel, Doris Löhr 20 — “After Socialism: Forgotten Legacies, 2008: Building partnership, first conference with the partners and Till Kuhnert Possible Futures in Africa and Beyond” during the opening An international workshop of the Bayreuth session Academay 22 — Middle Classes, Protest, and Social Change in Africa and Beyond A Bayreuth Academy international conference

23 — Hauntology: Beyond capitalist realism 24 – Under the 2008: meeting of the Advisory Board Baobab Tree: 1 participants of the international 24 — BIGSAS seminar discuss the ‘Zwischenraum’ 24 — “Under the Baobab Tree” between A BIGSAS International Workshop traditional 25 — BIGSAS Career Day knowledge and 26 — BIGSAS Colloquium in 2017 modern science 27 — BIGSAS Journalist Award 2017 28 — Status Quo 29 — Defences of BIGSAS Alumni in 2017 30 — Doctoral dissertations of BIGSAS Alumni published in 2017

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31 — Ways forward in BIGSAS partnerships BIGSAS welcomes its African Partner Universities coordinators and other guests – BIGSAS 27 from Algeria Journalistenpreis: for the fourth 32 — Future of Governance in Africa time BIGSAS First workshop of the BIGSAS workgroup and its Alumni ‘Governance in Africa’ honoured excellent 33 — Workshop on Media, Culture and Society / journalistic work History and Film about the African continent 34 — Iwalewahaus 34 — FAVT - Future Africa Visions in Time Indeed a process! The Bayreuth Academy signature exhibition two years after its 34 – Traveling inception Exhibition “FAVT: 38 — Ndidi Dike: Constellations - Floating Space, Future Africa Motion and Remembrance Visions in Time”. Summer exhibitions 2017 // Iwalewahaus Installation view “Alzire of 40 — Ruth Weiss Bayreuth” by “Die Macht der Worte” or “My very first Kitso Lynn Lelliott question to you!” Goethe-Institute 41 — EXODUS STATIONS #2 Salvador de Bahia 42 — SPACES Perception. Reflection. Intervention 44 — “Floating Bodies” An installation by Talya Lubinsky 46 — Lieblingsstücke How to make art collections accessible 48 — 49° Grenzüberschreitungen Festival SPACES 48 – Yara Mekawei Saturday at the 49° Grenz- uberschreitungen 50 — Guests Festival 62 — Reports 70 — Projects 76 — Personalia 78 — Publications 81 — In Memorian 82 — In Brief

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10th Anniversary! 2007-2017

BIGSAS celebrates a decade of excellence

Text & Photos BIGSAS

In 2007 when the German Research Foundation (DFG) announced the PhD graduate training schools selected on a competitive basis for the Excellence Initiative of the State and Federal Gov- ernments of Germany, the University of Bayreuth was among them with its now renowned, Bayreuth Internation- al Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS). It was a dream come true for researchers at Bayreuth who, since the inception of the University, have continually expanded the focus on Africa. The Institute of African Studies was therefore, proud to add a new structure to its fold, alongside and the number of PhDs it has gradu- The Research Areas, tailored to these others like the Iwalewahaus. Over the ated in this 10-year period, i.e. 109 in challenging topics and innovative years, BIGSAS has developed into an December 2017. This is an enormous outstanding institution both in the success for a graduate school that structural framework for the aca- German and international higher edu- does not offer scholarships. demicfields ofprogramme. their time, Initially are the centralfunded Research in BIGSAS is unique be- of Excellence for African Studies in cause of its deep yet broad focus on other DFG graduate schools, BIGSAS Germany.cation landscape. Its strength It is the and first breadth School Africa. It revolves around the surging successfullyfor five years applied (2007-2012), for renewal like for all dynamics of social processes situ- and senior researchers it has brought ated at the nexus of culture, language, 1st Phase had four Research Areas and togethercan be seen from in all the parts number of the of world, junior politics, technology and economics. anotherthe 2nd three: five-year period in 2012. The

1st phase: 2007-2012 2nd phase: 2012-2018 Research Area A: Uncertainty, Innovation and the Research Area A: Uncertainty, Innovation, and Com- Quest for Order in Africa peting Orders in Africa Research Area B: Culture, Concepts and Communica- Research Area B: Knowledge, Communication, and tion in Africa: Approaches through Language, Liter- Communities in Motion ature and Media Research Area C: Negotiating Change: Discourses, Pol- - itics and Practices of Development ment Cooperation with Africa Research Area C:D: Concepts Coping with and EnvironmentalConflicts in Develop Criti- cality and Disasters in Africa

BIGSAS has succeeded thanks to the re- Principal Investigators (during the lentless efforts of its members. Besides Senior Fellows and Associated Senior time of their involvement) act as super- the Junior Fellows (JF), i.e. PhD can- Fellows.categories: The Seniortable below Fellows, recaps Affiliated the SFs visors, mentors, teachers, advisers and didates, there are also Senior Fellows in the two funding phases of BIGSAS. evaluators for the Junior Fellows. They (SF), who fall into three membership The Senior Fellows, also called, take decisions in the respective com-

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Senior Fellow Discipline 1st Phase 2nd Phase Erdmute Alber Social Anthropology 2008- Eric A. Anchimbe English Linguistics 2012- Susan Arndt English & Anglophone Literatures 2010- x Kocra Assoua Development Studies and African Politics 2009- 2013 Viviane Azarian Francophone Literatures in Africa 2012- Kurt Beck Anthropology x x Ulrike Beisel Culture and Technology in Africa 2014- Ulrich Berner Religious Studies x -2013 Martin Doevenspeck Social Geography 2012- Hilary Dannenberg English & Anglophone literatures, cultures and media -2009 Martina Drescher Romance and General Linguistics x x Ute Fendler Francophone Literatures, Cultures and Media in Africa x x Joël Glasman History of Africa 2018- Dymitr Ibriszimow African Linguistics x x Said Khamis Literatures in African Languages x Georg Klute Anthropology of Africa x x Franz Kogelmann Islamic studies x x Beate Lohnert Development Studies in Geography x x Elísio Macamo Development sociology -2009 Susanne Mühleisen English Linguistics x x Detlef Müller-Mahn Human and Social Geography x -2013 Dieter Neubert Development Sociology x x Achim von Oppen History of Africa x x Jonathan Owens Arabic Linguistics x -2016 Herbert Popp Human Geography of Northern Africa x -2012 Ivo Ritzer Media in Africa 2014- Manfred von Roncador African Linguistics x -2012 Eberhard Rothfuss Social Geography 2014- Katharina Schramm Anthropology 2017- Rüdiger Seesemann Islamic Studies 2011- x Valentina Serreli Arabic Linguistics 2017- Monika Sokol Romance with focus on iberoromance linguistics -2008 Gabriele Sommer African Linguistics 2009- x Eva Spies Religious Studies 2014- Alexander Stroh-Steckelberg African Politics and Development Policy 2015- Clarissa Vierke Literatures in African Languages 2014- Ulf Vierke African Arts 2010- x Ulrike Wanitzek Law with Focus on Comparative Law x x Tobias Wendl African Arts and Media -2010

mittees and elect the deans, vice deans 1. Emeriti, i.e. retired colleagues 2. Colleagues at the University of and other representatives. who previously took part in Bayreuth who are interested research and teaching activi- in African studies but who ties of the African focus at the have no experience in Africa divided into three groups: University of Bayreuth, yet. These colleagues usually The Affiliated Senior Fellows are sub-

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represent disciplines that are The members of the Management Cotonou, Benin not covered by the disciplines Board, representatives of the Re- Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya of the PIs, e.g. disciplines in search Areas, Gender and Diversity Universidade Eduardo Mond- - representatives and the coordinators lane, Maputo, Mozambique gineering sciences, and of the graduate school form the Aca- University of KwaZulu-Natal, 3. Representativesthe field of ecological of the and Part en- demic Committee, which is the legisla- Durban, South Africa ner Universities who spend tive body of BIGSAS. This body takes Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia part of the year in Bayreuth decisions regarding all fundamental and actively participate in the matters that concern the development BIGSAS organised many events decision-making process at of the school. throughout the years. Detailed infor- BIGSAS. Currently, BIGSAS has mation on these events, especially The Advisory Board provides concise conferences, award ceremonies, festi- feedback and advice and consists of: vals and meetings can be found in past The Associated13 Affiliated Senior Senior Fellows Fellows. are col- Wole Soyinka, volumes of NAB: Newsletter of African leagues from other German universi- Jean Comaroff, Studies, in the various publications of ties or from universities outside Ger- The Director of the Institute of BIGSAS (The BIGSAS World I and II, many, usually renowned specialists African Studies and BIGSASworks!, the WHO-Brochure, the in African studies. They are members The Vice President for Research JF and Alumni Brochures, the publica- of BIGSAS for the period of a doctoral and Junior Scholars of the Uni- tions of the BIGSAS Literature Festi- versity of Bayreuth. val, the publications in the framework mentors or supervisors. Currently, of the BIGSAS Journalist Awards, the BIGSASproject inhas which 69 Associated they are involvedSenior Fel as- BIGSAS thrived on its signature slo- BIGSAS@school Brochure etc.) as well lows. 89 others had been formerly gan and motto that “Research on Afri- as in the newsletters of the University of Bayreuth (UBT Aktuell and Spek- now been completed. ten years of its existence, BIGSAS col- trum). associated for PhD projects that have laboratedca is only possibleintensively with with Africa.” six Inpart the- The internal structure of BIGSAS ner universities in Africa. From the For these years of intensive work, comprises four groups: the General admission of new PhD candidates to BIGSAS thanks all its members, col- Assembly as the platform for all mem- - laborators, partners and the adminis- bers, the Management Board, the Aca- ships took internationalisation across tration of the University of Bayreuth demic Committee and the Advisory thejoint two research continents projects, to new these levels. partner for the consistent support, the trust Board. The six partner universities in Af- The Management Board is the rica are: the alumni, BIGSAS wishes you all the executive body of BIGSAS. Over the Université Mohammed V de Ra- bestand in confidence your future bestowed careers, onand it. calls To years, the following colleagues were bat, Morocco on you to keep the spirit of the BIGSAS part of it: Université d’Abomey-Calavi, family alive everywhere you go.

Deans Vice Deans Gender Representatives Period Fendler Beck Alber, Mühleisen 2007-2009 Ibriszimow Alber, Popp Sommer, Arndt 2010-2011 Ibriszimow Doevenspeck, Arndt, Anchimbe 2012-2013 Seesemann Ibriszimow Doevenspeck, U. Vierke, Anchimbe 2014-2015 Drescher Ibriszimow Doevenspeck, Anchimbe, U. Vierke 2016-2017 Drescher Ibriszimow Doevenspeck, Mühleisen, Serreli until October 2018 Drescher Drescher Doevenspeck Mühleisen, Serreli since October 2018

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Memories of BIGSAS Emmanuel Sackey Magdaline Nakhumicha (2013-2018) Wafula (2009-2013)

As a place for academic excellence, the During my time in BIGSAS, I was able memories of BIGSAS will forever re- to write my doctoral thesis, publish main on my mind. Not only because articles, present papers at interna- of the PhD opportunity offered me but tional conferences and interacted also for the warm hospitality of its with renowned African literary crea- management and staff, and colleagues tors and critics. It was an experience I met in Bayreuth. For this I remain that fuels my current motivation as a very grateful. Ich bin sehr Dankbar! lecturer in the Department of Kiswa- hili and Other African Languages at Moi University, Eldoret-Kenya.

Weeraya Blaise Muhire Chikas Danfulani Donsomsakulkij (2013-2017) (2009-2012) (2013-2016) My four years with BIGSAS deserve a BIGSAS was a family to me. storybook to tell everything. I remem- The intellectually stimulating Most inspiring, warmest hospital- ber, once in Bayreuth in 2013, every- colloquiums, workshops and of course ity and beloved family – that’s what other social activities gave me the BIGSAS means to me. I am most grate- nothing else. After months and years, opportunity of meeting and engaging ful for the opportunities BIGSAS pro- thing was about my research project, with academics from different parts of vided for me in terms of not only PhD the world. I cannot forget “BIGSAS@ training but also endless knowledge lifeit became experience. about BIGSAS more was than and just is a myre- connections. Many heartfelt thanks! markableproject, more window than to a degree:diverse ancultures, entire German pupils in Bayreuth. languages, places. Through BIGSAS I school” and its impact on young learned, I grew and I changed.

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2008: meeting of the Advisory Board

2012: visit of minister Heubisch 2016: Forum for Thought with Prof. Masolo Memories of BIGSAS

2013: football match with the police of Upper Franconia

2007: the beginning of BIGSAS, opening ceremony 2009: visit of Auma Obama 2013: visit of minister Müller

2008: Building partnership, first conference with the partners

2016: BIGSAS in Town 2011: Junior Fellows thanking outstanding nice people in Bayreuth

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2013: football match with the police of Upper Franconia

2012: Skiing organised by JFs 2014: Honorary Doctorate for Ngugi

2013: visit of minister Müller

2012: prolongation of BIGSAS

2018: biggest Alumni meeting in Addis Ababa

2008: Building partnership, first conference with the partners

2015: visit of minister Müller

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Interview with Christine Scherer

BIGSAS turned 10 in 2017. NAB talked with the Academic Coordinator, Christine Scherer, who, with an amazing team of truly dedicated persons, has run the daily business of the Graduate School since its inception.

Interview Eric Anchimbe & Lionel Sango PHOTOs Thorsten Ochs

Happy 10th Anniversary! In three words, describe the atmosphere in BIGSAS in the past decade.

Christine Scherer: Extraordinary – Generous – Memorable.

In the administration of BIGSAS, you are the only one who has been there all the time, how do you evaluate the achievements made this far?

The most important achievement of BIGSAS is certainly the diversity of young researchers from A to Z, from Austria to Zimbabwe, who accom- plished their aim successfully by ob- taining their doctorates. All of them can tell success stories about their very important: the Junior Fellows’ that programmes like BIGSAS@school careers afterwards. Another achieve- contribution to research on Africa will be continued by highly motivated ment is the excellent promotion and at the University of Bayreuth is com- Junior Fellows also in the future. The impact that BIGSAS as an institution mendable. These young academics in the African studies focus at the Uni- applied for admission to BIGSAS with when the next BIGSAS Journalist versity of Bayreuth has had over the Awardregular will inquiries be announced, of journalists is a further about years. The graduate school has be- successful candidates were selected sign that BIGSAS has come of age and come a trade mark and a best-practice intheir a highly original competitive research projects.process Theand now needs to be developed further. example not only in Germany and not over the last ten years, Junior Fellows, guided in mentoring groups, have con- You have dealt with junior fellows, sen- that came with the Excellence Initia- tributed extensively to the develop- ior fellows and guests from all over the just because of the generous funding ment and diversity of research direc- world. How easy has that been? of how established academics work to- tions in African Studies in Bayreuth. gethertive ten in years order ago. to fosterIt is a specificthe academic spirit A look at the dissertations published If one does not like to be profession- careers of young talents; how they so far supports this. And last but not ally immersed in an international open doors and networks for Junior least, BIGSAS became the cradle for academic arena, BIGSAS is certainly Fellows and an early integration into the conviction that academic com- not the right place to work at. For international academic communities. munication, knowledge transfer into me and certainly the entire team, it Another achievement is the collabora- the society and outreach engagement is absolutely the right place to work. tion between six partner universities are immensely important both stra- To implement and coordinate early in Africa and the University of Bay- tegically and idealistically for higher career support in an organisational reuth in different respects. And also education training. I personally hope unit from the application process for a

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together as a family is. But, to remain in the metaphor, maintaining a family

and working through conflicts as much aloneas through will notjoy isbe constant enough towork keep for the all familymembers. together An institutional for the coming affiliation years. As much as in other respects, it needs people who feel dedicated and com- mitted to the community and institution. This became more than clear dur-

soil recently in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia whening the thefirst colleagues Alumni meeting discussed on African how they could proceed from here as a multidisciplinary group of young academics. However, I trust that the potential of the alumni of BIGSAS as a group and as individual researchers are an ingre- dient for the institutional development of African studies at the University of Bayreuth and the newly-awarded Clus- ter of Excellence.

Now that the Excellence Initiative is doctorate up to the defence was quite No secret. Just dedication! This is cer- officially ending, what message do you new in Germany when BIGSAS started tainly valid for the Deans, the Senior have for members of the BIGSAS family? in 2007. It is like accompanying the and Junior Fellows, absolutely for the full cycle of a young academic, dealing administrative team and our coop- Take the spirit of innovation in aca- with their earlier academic training, eration partners in and beyond Bay- demia another step further! cultural background and social dispo- reuth. From my point of view, it has sition. It has always been rewarding always been a pleasure to implement If you were to do it again, what would to congratulate happy fellows after a concept coming out of fruitful ideas, you change? their defence. Since I had the chance to contribute my share to the concept of particularly interesting thing about Nothing! BIGSAS directly after accomplishing itwhen was people the innovative enjoy to collaborate.character of Thethe my own doctorate, I had a slight idea endeavour and procedures from the And you personally, what’s the next of what it means if one says ‘the devil step? lies in the detail’. During the years we stimulating internationalisation and scratch. It was fun to jointly create and large, the dedication of many Sen- facets with life and professionalism. sustainability of BIGSAS. Now that the ioralso Fellows, experienced the input difficulties. of our Junior But Fel by- outreach strategies and fill all of these ClusterFirstly, aof lot Excellence, of work will “Africa flow into Multi the- lows as much as the advice from our BIGSAS often describes itself as “the colleagues of the BIGSAS partner uni- BIGSAS family.” What keeps this family versities in Africa was invaluable. Af- together? ‘Earlyple”, has Career been and approved Equal forOpportuni funding,- ter ten years I would clearly say that ties’.my expertise And, given will that flow there into is still the some unit the enthusiastic collaboration as well Yes, especially Dymitr (the Dean) likes as the constructive criticisms made this metaphor. I believe, he means the research idea, I will not hesitate… BIGSAS the institution it is today. shared perception and spirit that one is time and space for a new project or a part of a special community and unique Thank you Christine and we wish you What is the secret behind this? institution, one that is as closely-knit the best in the next stage.

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Interview with Dymitr Ibriszimow

On the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (2007-2017), NAB sat down with the Dean, Dymitr Ibriszimow, to take a look back at the achievements.

70% of the doctoral students, Junior Fellows (JF) as we call them, (including the alumni) are non-Germans, 62% come from African countries, and 44% are female. BIGSAS is a place of multi- and interdisciplinary research. 116 colleagues (Senior Fellows (SF) including the Principal Investigators) representing 18 different disciplines that deal with Africa supervise and advise the JFs. We strongly support bottom-up activities of the JF who in these 10 years have created 39 interdisciplinary Work Groups.

That’s an impressive list of achievements, especially in the academia. Has BIGSAS Dymitr Ibriszimow and NAB editor-in-chief (Eric Anchimbe) and reached out beyond the academia? editorial assistant (Lionel Sango)

Of course, in many different ways. Our gender and diversity programme Interview Eric Anchimbe & graduated 127 alumni. A total of 80 points to that. Beside the strict aca- Lionel Sango doctoral students are currently en- demic work, JFs and SFs have also de- PHOTOs Juliane Fender rolled in BIGSAS and should defend veloped a number of public outreach in the next few years. Our focus is on programmes, for instance, the an- quality of academic research, which nual BIGSAS Literature Festival, the In 2012, you sat down with NAB to cel- is why only 12-15% of all applicants biennial BIGSAS Journalist Award, ebrate the successful renewal of BIGSAS are admitted to BIGSAS. This tells you the BIGSAS Forum for Thought and with the Excellence Initiative. Today, how coveted BIGSAS has become. To BIGSAS@school. Furthermore, and we are sitting down to take stock of have such a large alumni in 10 years is you know this better as its coordina- BIGSAS’ ten years of existence: 2007- really impressive. tor than I do, we have a football team, 2017. Congratulations! BIGSAS FC. However, I am particu- How does this admission reflect the larly happy that our reputation in the Dymitr Ibriszimow: Thank you for composition of BIGSAS? meantime reached also the political having me again after these years. level. In February 2013, the Bavarian If you look at our organigram and the Parliament invited BIGSAS and the What have been the major achieve- role of our partner universities (PU), African focus of our university to pre- ments in these years? then it becomes clearer. One of the sent our activities and achievements most prominent aspects of BIGSAS is in front of members of the State Par- BIGSAS was founded in November the cooperation with its six partner liament. As a result of this visit and 2007. We thought of, created and de- universities in Africa. However, I want following our proposal, the Bavarian veloped BIGSAS from the very begin- to underline that the research propos- Ministry of Higher Education created ning as a permanent structure within als with which the candidates apply a new unique structure: The Bavarian our university. That vision continues to BIGSAS have to be their own ideas. Research Institute of African Studies to live especially now that, even after There are no quotas in regard e.g. top- (BRIAS) which is a collaboration be- the Excellence Initiative, BIGSAS will ics, discipline, origin or gender of the tween four Bavarian higher education continue to exist. Today, BIGSAS has applicants. Our statistics show that institutions: The University of Bay-

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reuth, The University of Würzburg, The Technical University Ingolstadt and The University of Applied Scienc- es Neu-Ulm.

So many achievements in various direc- tions. Tell me, what has been the secret of this great success?

Professionalism in expertise, friendship in relation, reliability in decision- making, equality of chances under consideration of individual needs. All SFs participate in BIGSAS activities voluntarily. We cannot and should not forget the environment in which BIGSAS is operating, the friendship and sympathy of all colleagues and staff responsible for the university structures outside BIGSAS.

What, in your opinion, is left unfinished? - ago. The University of Bayreuth has rica. It will take place on 31 October been awarded “The Cluster of Excel- - firstto 2 NovemberBIGSAS alumni 2018 conference at our PU inin AdAf- lence: Africa Multiple – Reconfiguring dis Ababa. We expect more than 80 African Studies”. Congratulations! ideasI cannot on how say to that make there what are we “unfin have alumni from all over the world. achievedished” aspects; even therebetter. are For always example, new Thank you very much, I am so happy! BIGSAS developed a sandwich pro- Has the BIGSAS slogan “Research in Af- It is now my turn to congratulate my gramme for the co-supervision of JFs rica only with Africa” been a major hall- younger colleagues and friends, i.e. with our partner universities. Cur- mark of these 10 years? you personally as a PI of the new clus- rently, there are seven participants ter and all our colleagues from the in this programme. We have to keep Of course! I hope we shall reach this African focus of our university who discussing with our PU the common approach in all domains of our lives participated intensively in the prepa- strategies in order to increase the one day. That it will be unthinkable ration of the successful application. number and the variety of disciplines and unimaginable to deal with Africa BIGSAS has now been integrated into involved in this programme. without sharing efforts and reaching the Cluster of Excellence. For the next results with and learning from our seven years the BIGSAS experience In 2012, you said: “we hope that our ef- colleagues, friends and thinkers from will continue with even more success- forts in the domain of internationalisa- African countries. es and achievements. tion will reach the next level of cooperation with our partner universities and BIGSAS has many alumni today. What The Africa focus of the University of beyond.” Has this been the achieved? is BIGSAS’ relationship to them? Bayreuth is reaching new heights. What is next? Yes, let me give you two examples. At Our alumni are our pride and our re- the end of September 2016 the Educa- ward. We are so proud of their work Now it is time to build up the remain- tion, Audiovisual and Culture Execu- and their careers. Their success is the ing envisaged innovative cluster tive Agency (EACEA) of the European reward for all of us for the work we structures. This is a very challenging Union selected and is currently fund- have been doing as supervisors, men- and time-consuming period, but be- tors and administrators. By the way, lieve me, it is full of positive experi- Mobility for African Sustainable De- BIGSAS has, in my opinion, the best ences. ing our project entitled “Academic administration team one can imagine. of the Intra-Africa Academic Mobility There are no problems whatsoever Thanks for talking to the NAB. We look Schemevelopment (see (AMAS)” NAB XVI in the framework forward to report on the new achieve- viable solution. ment of the Africa focus in NAB 2018, the University of Bayreuth.: 22). With The “our” sec- for which the team would not find a the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excel- ondproject, example I refer is tocoming five of in our 2018: PU andthe Another good news broke a few days lence.

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Learning for the Future

Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Education(s) and Future(s) in Africa and beyond

Across the African continent as well asjects the gave Indian strikingly subcontinent, similar weaccounts. found replicas of western-type schooling in remarkable similarity. This model of education follows a paradigm of mod- ernisation, progress and unilineal development.

education, we agreed on a very broad To approach the thematic field of- mission, transgressing the bounda- riesdefinition of schooling. of knowledge The working and its transgroup noted that knowledge can be textual, manual, exemplary, oral, or embodied and is transmitted through different imagery. Three themes deserved further scrutiny during the seven working sessions held at the Bayreuth Academy:

Concepts of Knowledge, Sewing lesson at the School of Fashion, Nairobi Education and Learning

- TEXT SABRINA MAURUS & “Learning for the Future – Transdis- deleine Ayeh, Lena Kroeker and The- LENA KROEKER ciplinary Perspectives on Knowledge Theresa first Vollmer, theme, focused heralded on theby Anna concepts Ma PHOTO LENA KROEKER of knowledge, education and learning. facilitated seven working group ses- The working group discussed their sions,Transmission a lecture in series, Africa an and exhibition beyond”, Education is often perceived as an - parallelism of epistemological orders, imagined future due to its ability to tices and images of learning for the modestransnational of knowledge flows. Multiplicity transmission, and equip learners with skills, know-how, future.and a photo project on concepts, prac and systems of learning, characterise theoretical knowledge and to serve The group which consists of most societies. However, the discus- as a valuable resource in shaping twelve doctoral and post-doctoral sions of the working group concluded the future. In the 2017-2018 winter scholars discussed interesting ideas that globally disseminated models of ‘development’ and schooling, i.e. those students in General Pedagogy, Social not only display concepts of learning promoted by the United Nations Mil- Anthropology,semester, junior School staff Pedagogy and doctoral and buton specificare also visions informed of theby concepts future that of lennium / Sustainable Development the future. Goals, overshadow the multiplicity sessions revolving around imagined In the early discussions, it became of learning approaches. The hegem- future(s)Psychology, connected organised with joint educational working clear that only one dominant model of onic model of schooling plays with the programmes. They were funded by education currently exists and is dis- promises of ‘development’ and access the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced seminated globally. More so, empirical to industrialised and administrative African Studies. The working group -

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almost uniform visions of the future tices that do not refer to a concept of The working group on this theme in- worldwide in which students aspire future. vited Tatek Abebe (Norwegian Uni- to become economically valuable versity of Science and Technology members of the society. Consequently, Trondheim) for a three-month stay schooling is seen as the only means to Images and in Bayreuth. Being such a renowned a successful future, while other life - Representations of/in - receive inadequate attention. The Knowledge, Education mendouslyscholar in the from field his of expertise.childhood Asidestud examplestrajectories discussed and educational revealed contexts a mis- givingies, the the working group group insights profited into trehis match between an anticipated future and Learning profound knowledge of literature on based on schooling and the possibili- education in Africa, Tatek Abebe gave The third group with Jennifer Schef- a talk on the future visions of youth protestors in Ethiopia. ties of the job market. on the theme, images and representa- A further highlight of the working Practices of Knowledge, tionsfler, Julia of/in Thibaut knowledge, and Astrid education Utler took and group’s engagement with education learning. Images, as ‘pictures’ (e.g. in and the future were presentations Education and Learning social media, books, movies, news, on the topic as part of the weekly An- - thropological Colloquium. Geraldine Tanushree Biswas, Tabea Häberlein, resentations’, play an important role Schmitz presented a talk on children’s Daniel Kyereko, Sabrina Maurus and inetc.) social or in life the and figurative daily interactions sense as ‘rep as work at a marketplace in northern Maike Voigt organised discussions on well as in knowledge production and Ghana. Susanne Ress talked about the second theme: Practices of knowl- transmission. In the latter sense, these south-south cooperation in higher edge, education and learning. By edu- include both self-representation and education between Brazil and Luso- cational practices, we mean processes representations of the other. Images phone African countries. Iris Clemens of knowledge transmission and crea- of the other are in many cases biased discussed the transfer of approaches tion. This theme addressed the corre- and stereotypical. The key concern of from cultural studies to the study of lation between educational practices this subtopic was the representation education. Faisal Garba presented on and visions of the future. Educational of the other in education and its re- hopes and aspirations in the process practices stimulate certain visions of lated materials. European or German of decolonising South African Univer- the future and, in turn, visions of the perceptions of Africa or Africans were sities. future stimulate educational practic- compared to and contrasted with dis- Meanwhile, the exhibition “Was es. Hence, the working group explored courses and (self-)images in different - this correlation through empirical African contexts. This was also linked ture) curated by Noemi Steuer, Clem- examples from Africa, Europe, and with migrants’ vision of Europe as a enswerden Bechtel wird” and (Longing Till Kuhnert, for themoved Fu India. Different institutions of formal place for a better future. The working from Basel to the Iwalewahaus in and informal education, religious edu- group went beyond describing and be- Bayreuth. It shows how young people cation, vocational training, life-long wailing biases to addressing mutual in Burkina Faso and Switzerland both learning, initiation schools and many representations and images between, walk along similar paths in creating a for example, Africa and Europe as well better future, searching for employ- collaborative inquiry took a close look ment and building a family. atothers, individual were the and subject collective of debate. visions The of triggering them. Hence, a photo of the future expressed in terms like, as finding new and visionary ways An international conference on Edu- goals, hopes, dreams, aspirations and Kramer was set up with teacher train- cation & Visions of Future(s) in Africa development, expected to be achieved ingproject students with regarding photographer their images Johannes of and beyond will be held in Bayreuth in through education. It became obvious Africa. An exhibition is scheduled for April 2018 to further discuss the con- that there exist no educational prac- autumn 2018. cepts above.

NAB XVII - 2017 17 Exhibition: Longing for the Future

What the Future Holds – Growing up in Zurich, Bamako and Ouagadougou. A successful collaboration between the Bayreuth Academy, the Centre for African Studies in Basel and the Iwalewahaus.

son avenir’ by the Center for African highlights similarities among young TEXT DORIS LÖHR Studies at the University of Basel in- people around the world as they shape PHOTOS Sabine Linn vestigates how young West African their future. university graduates manage this The exhibition is based on works multifaceted process. The starting created during the communication How do young people, who are com- point was an ethnological research - monly seen as the future of the soci- searched by Maike Birzle and Susann ety, shape their own, personal future? and women from West Africa for sev- Ludwig.project inIt takes Benin, readers, Mali and viewers Basel and re What are their future aspirations? eralproject years. that Students accompanied from Bamako young men and Where do they put their trust? The Zurich used several of the biographies lives of two young women through exhibition ‘What the Future Holds – as inspirations and turned them into variouslisteners photographs, on a moving journeytexts and into biog the- Growing up in Zurich, Bamako and artworks. These artworks are com- raphies in multi-dimensional textual- bined with original quotations, au- audio-visual scenic installations. In answers to these questions by con- the exhibition, images and sounds nectingOuagadougou’ the voices set the and objective imageries to find of been theatrically formed to create work together to create an all-encom- adolescents in Burkina Faso, Mali and twothentic audio audio walks. files Theyand texts tell ofthat the have re- passing experience. Switzerland into a scenic installation. alities of the lives of young people, as well as of their utopias, chances and in Germany took place between Nov. the Future or What the future holds - 2017The and presentation March 2018 at of the the Iwalewa project- – WasThe researchWerden projectWird – ‘LongingConstruire for phasize these differences. Instead, it haus Bayreuth, starting with a well- decisions. The project does not em

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attended opening on 9 Nov. 2017. The exhibition was organised together with the Swiss curation team headed by Noemi Steuer, Clemens Bechtel and Till Kuhnert in coordination with Doris Löhr and Katharina Schiekofer, and supported by the technicians Tor- sten Hartmann and Sefer Polat. The exhibition encapsulates the research topic of an ethnological sub- - tled “Middle Classes on the Rise: Con- ceptsproject of of the the FutureBayreuth among Academy freedom, enti under the direction of Erdmute Alber. Parallelconsumption, to the tradition,exhibition anda workshop moral” was organised by the postdoctoral

2017-2018 on “Transdisciplinary Per- spectivesWorking Group on Knowledge “Education” Transmis in winter-

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“After Socialism: Forgotten Legacies, Possible Futures in Africa and Beyond”

An international workshop of the Bayreuth Academay

TEXT CONSTANTIN KATSAKIORIS ferent contexts – and the responses Burkina Faso respectively. Bianchini PHOTOS NADINE SIEGERT to this crisis; have largely remained examined Senegalese leftism and the unexplored. Parti africain de l’indépendance after - the high ebb of May 1968 to show that, On 13-14 October 2017, the Bayreuth chester) and Constantin Katsakio- for all the setbacks and recurrent Academy of Advanced African Stud- ris (BayreuthTanja Müller Academy) (University examined of Man the splits, the movement played a very im- ies hosted the international work- portant role in the process of democ- shop, “After Socialism: Forgotten students. Katsakioris provided data on ratisation and in the struggle for civil Legacies, Possible Futures in Africa returningtrajectories African of Eastern students Bloc-educated from the - Soviet Union and took issue with the Stroh also stressed the importance vened within the framework of the well-known adage, sometimes attrib- ofrights Thomas and Sankara social justice as a symbol in Senegal. that Academy’sand Beyond.” Working The workshop Group 1,was led con by uted to former Senegalese President still inspires the civil society move- Nadine Siegert and Constantin Kat- Léopold Sédar Senghor and to former ment in Burkina Faso, as evidenced by sakioris, which studies the history of Ivorian President Félix Houphouët- African socialisms and concentrates, Boigny: “If you want to produce a carefully reconstituted the picture of in particular, on the period of crisis Communist, send him to Paris; if a electoralthe “Balai results citoyen.” during However, the lastafter two he

demise of the socialist camp (1989). Oneof the hundred socialist years projects after the and Russian of the “If you want to produce a Revolution, the workshop sought to Communist, send him to Paris; examine how African radical parties, political actors, intellectuals, Eastern if a Capitalist, send him to Moscow.” Bloc-educated students, writers and artists, who earlier had used the aes- decades, he demonstrated that radical thetics of socialist realism, reacted to argued that returning students were Sankarist parties failed to elicit the the crisis of socialism, to the collapse notCapitalist, as disillusioned send him as to Moscow.”the Western He support of Burkina Faso citizens, who of the Eastern Bloc and to the disman- press often depicted them. On the con- voted for other parties, and attributed tlement of the Soviet Union. Moreover, trary, many of them remained “believ- this failure to the citizens’ option for it sought to explore how these actors - liberal institutions instead of radi- reinvented themselves, which ideolo- ions and societies of friendship with cal politics. Didier Monciaud (Cahiers gies, worldviews or visions of the fu- ers,” while others created alumni un d’histoire) concentrated on the Egyp- ture replaced the once powerful so- Mozambican students educated at the tian student movement and argued cialist visions, what the legacies of the Schoolthe USSR. of TanjaFriendship Müller ( Schulefocused der on Fre the- the students supported and at the African left have been, and how actors undschaft) in Stassfurt, East Germany. same time criticised the shortcomings today recall their experience under She argued that, against the metan- of Gamal Abdel Nasser’s regime after socialist regimes or relate to social- arrative that portrays the GDR as a the Egyptian defeat in the war of 1967. ism. police-state and socialism as a failed The reinvention of radical politics As director of the Bayreuth Acad- by the Kurdistan’s Workers Party emy, Achim von Oppen, asked in his very positive memories of their form- opening address, if the state-centred ativeproject, years Mozambican in the GDR graduateseven today have and Joost Jongerden (Wageningen Univer- visions of the future of the era of Af- most of them still consider themselves sity).(PKK), This was was the thesubject only of paper the paper beyond by rican socialisms have attracted much as socialists. Africa, but one that clearly showed scholarly attention; the crisis of these Pascal Bianchini (University of how this former Marxist-Leninist visions that came by the end of the Paris 7) and Alexander Stroh (Univer- party reinvented itself and opted for 1970s and during the 1980s – al- sity of Bayreuth) put their spotlight though at different moments in dif- on leftist movements in Senegal and confederalism. Sa’eed Husaini (Oxford the political project of democratic 20 NAB XVII - 2017 ACADEMY

University) talked about the current state of the Nigerian left and argued - aftermath of independence. Finally, that Marxism and radical socialism Gumagime of family’s apartheid. longer Ksenia trajectory Robbe in (Lei the- Davidthat defined Ratner national(University identity of Tel inAviv) the still hold currency among trade un- SACPden University) and in the retraced fight against and mapped the re ionists, youths and activists. the critiques that have been voiced - Several participants put their in South African cultural production nistspresented of the the Ethiopian preliminary student findings move of- spotlight on writers and artists. since 2012, including literature, thea- menthis oral and history with projectboth proponents with protago and Adam Mayer (University of Hewler, tre, visual art, documentaries, cura- opponents of the DERG regime. Iraqi Kurdistan) analysed the writ- - The workshop participants used ings of the celebrated Nigerian writer tives. She stressed that most of these various case studies and provided Ifeoma Okoye and in particular her torial projects and educational initia different insights and multiple per- novel The Fourth World. Elara Bertho remembering practices of socialist spectives. Throughout the debates (CNRS France) surveyed the cultural activismcritiques from find different symbolic periods resources since in it became clear how different the policies of the socialist regime of Sék- the early 20th century. Nadine Sieg- reactions to the crisis and demise of ou Touré in Guinea Conakry. Using a ert linked the socialist realist aes- socialism have been between actors vast array of published and unpub- thetics of the period of the national who experienced socialist regimes lished sources, Bertho analysed the liberation struggle in Angola to the and others who militated against critical or even satirical reactions of contemporary cultural production Western-oriented ones. To include writers when the Guinean dictator and demonstrated the fascinating - passed away. Christopher Lee (La- - sion, it appeared more useful to use fayette University) gave a paper on temporary Angolan art. Dores Cruz the second “group” into the discus the South African communist activ- (Internationalestransfigurations Kollegof socialism Morphomata) in con - ist and writer, Alex La Guma, whose presented a paper on the socialist-era entthe lensperspectives, of “African most left” participants instead of novel, A Soviet Journey, is a tribute to street names of Maputo. She argued stressed“post-socialism.” the crucial Despite historical the differinput the USSR. For all the novel’s serious that Maputo street names are part of the African left in the struggle for omissions, Lee argued that La Guma’s of a public iconographic landscape democratisation, social development writings are an integral part of the La consistent with the socialist ideology and human rights.

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Middle Classes, Protest, and Social Change in Africa and Beyond

A Bayreuth Academy international conference

TEXT ANTJE DANIEL & FLORIAN STOLL PHOTO Michael Steffen

Since 2000, millions of people in Af- rican countries have been able to im- prove their socio-economic situation. In reaction, a debate on middle classes in Africa has emerged in academic cir- cles. One of the most important but nevertheless understudied aspects in this debate is the complex relationship that exists between middle-income strata, protests and social change. To

Florian Stoll (both Bayreuth), Hennie Koetzeaddress (Stellenbosch this nexus, Antje University) Daniel and Henning Melber (Nordic Africa Insti- tute) organised a conference funded by the Point Sud programme in Stel- lenbosch, South Africa on 17-21 March differences between protests at South and discuss their ongoing research. 2017. The conference brought togeth- African universities and their rela- Some papers discussed the relation er scholars from several disciplines tion to class and race were the main between hegemony and middle class- and continents as well as activists. issues of discussion. The participants es in South Africa while others added South Africa was the main focus of comparative perspectives on middle the event even though other countries movements and the question whether classes and activism in Zimbabwe, in Africa and elsewhere were used as theexamined involvement the composition of middle classesof specific re- Namibia, Angola and Nigeria. comparative reference points. Neither gards it as a middle-class movement. One of the main takeaways from in South Africa nor in other cases is it Furthermore, it was discussed how the conference was that cultural so- - a collaboration of researchers and sition of the middle class in particular activists might determine which ac- - –clear relates how to stratification protest and political– and the goals po scianciologists, scholars, researchers political in thescientists, field of for social change. A new perspective information. socialstratification, movement Marxist scholars, scholars, anthro Gram- taken up at the conference was to tivistsSunday are more19 March than justwas a dedicatedsource of pologists and activists, differ in their combine social movement studies and to the relationship between inequal- perspectives on protests and middle middle-class approaches. ity and change in South Africa. One classes. It became evident that the On Friday 17 March, speakers fo- crucial question was the connection assumed agents of change differ de- cused on theories and their applica- between social groups, inequality and pending on the theoretical premises tion in the global South, particularly change. Another important topic was, in Africa. This included debates about under which conditions do middle schools of thought. Furthermore, the how to conceptualise middle classes classes become political actors. conferenceand empirical showed findings analytical of the different contra- in the global South differently from - dictions between the concepts of mid- their perception in the North. ars had the opportunity to present dle class and social movements. On Saturday 18 March, activists On Monday 20 March, junior schol This report is a shortened and revised version of: Daniel, Antje & Stoll, Florian relationship between middle classes, (2017), Conference Report: Middle Classes, Protest, and Social Change in Africa protestsand scholars and social jointly change considered in South theAf- and Beyond. Africa Spectrum 52 (3): 111–116. rica. The recent student protests, the

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Hauntology

Beyond capitalist realism

TEXT Katharina Fink negative because through the idea of the haunting presence of concepts and a queer future of failure, it opens up ideas of past or simultaneous futures. possibilities for alternatives, non-line- In a series of transdisciplinary In the winter semester 2017-2018, a arity, non-normativity, non-reproduc- events, the Bayreuth-based research- Bayreuth Academy working group or- tivity (Halberstam 2005). ers invited international scholars and ganised by Marie-Anne Kohl, Nadine Hauntology also discusses the artists to discuss these conceptual Siegert and Katharina Fink focused presence and absence, visibility and outlines. This proved particularly on the concept of hauntology in rela- fruitful in the context of migration to tion to futures. Hauntology departs cinema and visual studies, religious Europe, often framed as a crisis and from Derrida’s book Spectres of Marx studiesinvisibility or anthropology.beyond its classic It also fields fur in- the re-emergence of nationalist par- (1993). Developed in cultural studies ther develops the modes of futuring ties in Europe. by authors such as Gordon (1999) and initially introduced during the con- Art is an integral part of the Fisher (2014) it is a pun on the idea of ceptual phase of the FAVT-exhibition hauntological discussion. As such, ontology. It denotes, amongst other by the Bayreuth Academy, for in- the contributions made by Kitso things, the persistence and lingering stance, in the discussion of the works Lynn Lelliott (Johannesburg), Simon of failed, of past, of omitted (often uto- of Academy-fellows kara lynch and Vincent (London), Silhouette Tapes (Bayreuth/Berlin) and Danilo Barata (Cachoeira), Spoek Mathambo (Johan- nesburg), Henriette Gunkel (London), Esther Peeren (Amsterdam), Renzo Baas (London), Ute Fendler (Bay- reuth), Kathrin Rothemund (Bay- reuth), and Lu Zhao (Erlangen) bore

hauntology. The papers presented in thisremarkable Working insights Group will into be the published field of in 2018. Hauntological thinking can help us to see, feel and listen to worlds radically different from the capitalist realism of the contemporary world described by Mark Fisher in the following excerpt: “What haunts the digital cul-de-sacs of the twenty-

as all the lost futures that the twen- Kitso Lynn Lelliott, Video Still, Alzire of Bayreuth, 2017. tiethfirst centurycentury istaught not so us much to anticipate. the past [T]he disappearance of the future meant the deterioration of a whole pian) ideas, and also radical futures. Ingrid LaFleur or in time-crossing mode of social imagination: the ca- It also brings in the ideas of dystopia pacity to conceive of a world radically or no future as productive categories. different from the one in which we Failing must not be considered only as thesemyths modes such asto the “Drexciya” idea of asghosts in the as film by Simon Rittmeier. It relates A book about the Working Group will be published in currently2019: live.” Fink, Kohl & Siegert (eds.): Ghosts, specters, revenants. Hauntology as a means to think and feel future. Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater, ca. 250 Seiten. Könighausen & Naumann, 2019.

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“Under the Baobab Tree” – A BIGSAS International Workshop

The quest for a “Third Space between ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ and ‘Modern Science’” issue analysed in-depth by Andreas Velthuizen (Senior Researcher in Dis- pute Resolution, College of Law, Uni- versity of South Africa) in his talk on “Indigenous knowledge: A compari-

toson a ofclose perspectives by the presentation from Africa”. by Has The- sanfirst O. day Kaya of the (Director workshop of the was Centre brought in Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Uni- versity of KwaZulu-Natal, South Afri- ca) on “The role of African indigenous knowledge systems in decolonisation of higher education in Africa: Pros-

Ibrahim El Fasskaoui (Moulay Is- maïlpects andUniversity challenges.” Meknes, Morocco), opened the second day of the work- TEXT ABRAHAM BRAHIMA can traditional societies, the baobab is shop with his fascinating bilingual PHOTO BIGSAS a central space where villagers meet presentation on “Savoir-faire ‘tradi- to discuss important issues related tionnels’ dans les communautés ber- to their life and wellbeing. As such, bères du Sud du Maroc – Indigenous The two-day international workshop, the baobab is the central point of the knowledge in the Berber communi- “Under the Baobab Tree: Reframing ‘palabre’ (palaver) considered by the Conceptions and Perceptions of Indig- Cameroonian philosopher Jean-Gode- short coffee break, participants were froy Bidima as “a productive discus- literallyties in Southernheld spellbound Morocco”. by the After bril a- funded by BIGSAS brought together liant talk by Ibrahim Niang, (Cheikh overenous 30 Knowledge” participants (10-11 from July 2017),differ- A good practice of dialogue aimed at Anta Diop University Dakar, Senegal) ent parts of the world. As part of the reachingsion that consensusleads to a goodat all settlement”. costs is at- on “Understanding local knowledge BIGSAS seminar “Introduction to the tested by Julius Nyerere, former presi- production through cultural concepts dent of Tanzania, who said: “In African around health and sexuality: The case this academic encounter successfully society, the traditional method of con- Concept of Indigenous Knowledge”, ducting affairs is by free discussions… of images, proverbs and concrete from Africa, America and Europe. The The elders sit under the big trees, and examplesof Senegal taken (West-Africa)”. from his Byextensive means brought together experts in the field experience as principal investigator and experiences on the delineation of As if they were strictly following for the World Health Organisation in amain third objective space, a wasroom toin-between share ideas or thattalk untilprinciple, they agree”.the talks at this work- the Ebola epicentres throughout the Zwischenraum to weave together tra- shop were in the spirit of construc- West-African region, Niang carved out ditional knowledge and ‘modern’ sci- tive dialogue and constant interaction the space for local knowledge in the ence. with the participants. Dymitr Ibris- - In their introduction to the work- zimow, Dean of BIGSAS, delivered a tional workshop was closed by Edwin shop, the organisers, Christine Scher- captivating presentation on “Who Salcedofight against (Afro-Colombian epidemics. This publicistinterna er and Abraham Brahima, explained decides what my knowledge is?: Some and communications expert) with why academics from all over the world thoughts on ‘indigenous and local/ his talk entitled, “AfroColombian and have to meet ‘under a baobab tree’— their civil society movement: A coun- be it virtual — in Germany to discuss for the discussion about power rela- ter narrative against racism and other the issue of local knowledge. In Afri- global’ knowledge”. The tone was set

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BIGSAS Career Day

TEXT HANNA LENA REICH researchers to work in Research Rehau AG, shared practical informa- PHOTOS BIGSAS Think Tanks. Andrea Baier explored tion about the challenges a German enterprise might face when creating Germany from the point of view of the a product in Germany and then trans- The third BIGSAS Career Day, which job opportunities after the PhD in- ferring and selling it in an African took place on 15 September 2017, had ugees, located in Nürnberg. Steffen country. What are the tasks of an Hon- as aim to explore options for young FederalKrüger fromOffice the for Africa Migration Department and Ref of orary Consul? This question formed academics after the completion of the the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) the basis of the talk by Dietmar Scheit- doctorate, i.e. career opportunities for described his experience as Country er, Honorary Consul of Sierra Leone in ‘life after the defence’. The Career Day Director of KAS in DR Congo as an Germany. He introduced the audience therefore offered insights into vari- example of a possible career in such to the partnership between Germa- a context. The KAS, he said, generally brought participants into contact encourages young researchers both in withous professional experts employed fields of in occupation, civil soci- - countryny and Sierraand the Leone, importance told first-hand of engag- ety organisations and businesses that dation. ingstories stakeholders about ongoing on all projectssides. in the GermanyStefan andMann Africa from to thejoin ECOthe founCon- - collaboration in Africa. It was organ- sulting Group, a provider of technical ager at KfW Entwicklungsbank, spoke operate in the field of international- Detlef Hanne, Senior Project Man- tives Asaf Augusto, Shilla Memusi and transfer and socio-political transfor- nior fellows could imagine as well: Hannaised by Lena the junior Reich. fellow The programme representa mation,expertise gave for valuable projects insights on knowledge on get- workingabout a careerin the idea international many BIGSAS devel ju- started with an introduction from ting started in consulting, a domain opment sector aside of being an ac- the Dean, Dymitr Ibriszimow, and still minimally exploited in most Af- ademic. As manager of educational the Coordinator of BIGSAS, Christine rican countries. The biologist, Martin programmes on Africa at KfW, he still Scherer. Both warmly welcomed the Demlehner, looked at pharmaceutical keeps a link to higher education by speakers and presented the structure industries and the current ventures teaching courses at several universi- of the doctoral programme as well as of the B. Braun Company, where he is ties. other activities that BIGSAS offers in the sales director for Africa, in vari- “We had fruitful exchanges on the context of training and mentoring. ous African countries. Sabine Vrede- An in-depth insight into the world veld of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für - of funding organisations was present- Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) tedpotential from their job opportunitiesexperiences and directly hope ed by Britta Utz from the Africa De- presented the engagement of the GIZ tofrom build experts on them in the to achievefield. We our benefit aspi- partment of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. in various African countries and its rations in the life after the defence of She has extensive experience from working in Southern Africa. She talk- in the form of traineeships. Ingo von Reich summed up her impressions of ed about the opportunity for young Ramdohrjob opportunities from the for Bayreuth-based junior fellows the day. PhD”, junior fellow Hanna Lena

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BIGSAS Colloquium in 2017

TEXT EMNET TADESSE WOLDEGIORGIS PHOTOS BIGSAS

The BIGSAS colloquium for doctoral students was held on 15 December 2017 at BIGSAS. A total of 10 speakers from different disciplines presented their work-in-progress followed by discussions. The colloquium was well

partnerattended universities by professors, in Africa. junior fellows andThe five morning representatives session ofstarted the BIGSAS with

Hanif introduced his research enti- two presentations. Mohammad Ajmal

students from Morocco, Abdellah

“Moroccan language policy and the Idhssaine, presented his findings on - Amazighreli (Bayreuth) Language and revitalisation”. Yamina El Kirat He is(Morocco). jointly supervised Both supervisors by Valentina were Ser present at the colloquium and led participants in the engaging discussion that followed. In the late afternoon session, Shillah Memusi presented her research on “Pursuing gender equality in Kenya: The experiences of the

“Character designations, social roles andMaasai” the whilepolitics Yvette of women Ngum imagesdescribed in

tled “On feet, necks and ‘the Greatest la littérature orale Touareg Kel Aïr theirCameroonian research cinema”. were at different levels religious studies, Adeyemi Sharapha of theirThe juniordoctoral fellows studies. who So, presented the focus AbeshuSaint’: Debating followed Sufism by presenting in twentieth- his Balogundu Niger”. talked Taking about the discussion“Being a ‘good into of their presentations covered a wide century Africa”. Gemechu Adimassu- muslim’: A study in identity and cul- range of areas from methodology, the- tions and emerging heterarchical ory to data analysis. The colloquium formsproject of onpolitical “Changing order propertyin Afar Region rela The afternoon session started was enriched by the presence of par- withture”. two presentations from political ticipants from different disciplines, Scaglioni then presented her work on including Political Science, Anthropol- “Blackin North-eastern Tunisians awake Ethiopia”. after Marta2011: on the theoretical part of his work on ogy, Geography, Media Studies, Lin- Meanings of blackness and slavery de- “Politicalscience. Ghadafi parties, Saibu violent offered youth, a talkand guistics, and Literature. Martin Doev- - enspeck chaired the morning session tion of blackness in the Tunisian black of the colloquium while the afternoon community.scent.” She explored Still in literature, the complex Ghous no- tripelectoral on the insecurity”, topic “Political while party Fortune mobi- session was co-chaired by Emnet Ta- mane Mohamed talked about “La per- Agbele reflected on her first fieldwork desse Woldegiorgis and Abraham Bra- ception du milieu naturel à travers One of the Sandwich Programme hima. lisation strategies in Ghana”.

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BIGSAS Journalist Award 2017

TEXT JULIANE FENDER African continent in its immense ups, thus showing examples of real PHOTO THORSTEN OCHS diversity without neglecting its po- entrepreneurs in the digital sector. tentials. Over 90 contributions from Jan Rübel expressed in his response print and online media were sub- to the audience the important mean- - mitted, a proof of the public’s posi- ing the award carries for him per- - tive perception of this special award sonally: “I have won several awards “Afrikastle of the entschlossenewinning article Kinder” of the 2017 (“Af - for my work but this one stands out rica’s determined children”) is the ti- ists. The fourth award ceremony for its idea and the knowledge which nalist Jan Rübel submitted the excel- atamong the University German-speaking of Bayreuth journal on 29 lentBIGSAS contribution Journalist to Award. the now The well- jour May 2017 attracted more than 250 known and renowned competition guests. Many of the BIGSAS Alumni Alumnistands behind and chaired it.” by Helmut Rup- who today work in different loca- pert,The former jury, composedpresident ofof 17 the BIGSAS Uni- in the German language. The article tions worldwide, precisely on four versity of Bayreuth, and two BIGSAS wasfor outstanding originally published journalism in theon magaAfrica- continents, came together again on Alumni Gilbert Ndi Shang and Rémi zine Berliner Zeitung on 22-23 August this occasion. Tchokothe, also honoured a second 2015. Its author, the Berlin based contribution written by Christian and TV presenter Jana Pareigis fo- - agency Zeitenspiegel, usually reports cussed,As special in her keynote guest, address, the journalist on the rently working in South Africa as a journalistabout political and issues partner in Germany of the media and power of words in the context of Ger- correspondentPutsch. The German for the journalist, WELT group, cur the Middle East. His exceptional arti- man media dealing with Africa. She submitted the article “Mit Kreide cle on Africa focusses on the future vi- reported from her own experience sions of young Ugandans in Kampala who are refusing to be hindered to unfortunate but frequent lack of time Weltgegen am Boko Sonntag Haram” on 28 August (“With 2016. chalk It develop their own future by the coun- about the daily life of journalists, the- tellsagainst the Bokoimpressive Haram”), stories published of coura in- try’s politics. Its quality and topic con- dices, clichés and stereotypes, which geous teachers in Borno State, North- oftenthat results affect inwork. reproduction She also ofpleaded preju ern Nigeria. Living under a constant who traditionally honour high quality for a more thorough research and a threat of attacks by Boko Haram the vinced the jury, the Alumni of BIGSAS, teachers refuse to give up teaching. and online media with the BIGSAS The winning article shows how They return to their classes every day Journalistjournalism Award. in German-speaking print positivemore careful young wording people in in journalism. Uganda are and keep up the daily routine for their The biennial BIGSAS Journalist taking up challenges and are dealing pupils. In his acceptance speech, the Award, unique in its mission and its with political situations: they take author emphasised the role of these - charge of their own destiny and imple- teachers that cannot be valued high ment their ideas into creative start- enough. jury composition, encourages an ob jective media representation of the NAB XVII - 2017 27 BIGSAS

Status Quo

Another year of success: 17 new Junior Fellows, 19 new Alumni, and 14 published dissertations

In 2017, BIGSAS received 166 applications for admission: 138 from Af- rica, 20 from Asia, four from Europe, three from America and one from Australia. Compared to 2016, the applicants’ diversity with respect to their nationality increased again. Furthermore, the number of alumni grew to a total of 109, thanks to 19 successful doctoral defences in 2017. 14 of the new alumni were male and

Cameroon, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana,five were Kenya, female. Namibia They and come Zimbabwe. from In addition, 14 alumni published their

in the Institute of African Studies’ se- BIGSAS Junior Fellows who started in October 2017 dissertations in 2017: four online, five

In 2017, the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Stud- ies (BIGSAS) welcomed

the summer semester. In10 thenew winterjunior fellowssemester, in

were admitted under the Sandwichseven new juniorProgramme fellows in Bayreuth. These doc-

supervised by their su- pervisorstoral students at their are jointlyhome universities and a senior fellow of ries Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung with BIGSAS. The new doctoral students LIT Verlag, one each with Wilhelm came from Benin, Cameroon, China, Fink Verlag, Edition assemblage, La- Ethiopia, Germany, Ghana, Iran, Mo- wAfrica, Nomos, and transcript. rocco, Sudan and Tanzania. By the end The editorial team of The BIGSAS of 2017, BIGSAS had a total number of World proudly announces the publication of a new issue in 2018. This pub- 54 of them from Africa, 35 from Eu- - rope,93 junior three fellows from Asia from and 28 countries:one from ior fellows’ and alumni’s experiences America. The gender ratio is almost andlication BIGSAS offers activities an overview during of 2016 the junand balanced: 53% are male and 47% are 2017. It also gives an idea of their lives female. in Bayreuth and abroad.

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Defences in 2017

Name Country of origin Title of dissertation Supervisor Angolan Kuduro: Carga, Aesthetic Duelling, and Pleasure Politics performed Alisch, Stefanie Germany Kordula Knaus through Music and Dance Arthur, Justice Ghana The Politics of Religious Sound, Religious Diversity and Conflict in Ghana Ulrich Berner Traditional Islamic Scholarly Culture in Northern Cameroon: 1900 to the Ayong, Ahmed Khalid Cameroon Rüdiger Seesemann Present The Production of a Terrortorium, a Terrortory, and the ImagiNation. Fiction- Baas, Renzo Namibia ing Namibia as a Space of Desire under the Shadows of German Colonialism, Susan Arndt South African Apartheid, and the Namibian Liberation Struggle. Translations of Urban Regulation within the Relation of Kigali (Rwanda) and Bock, Stephan Germany Martin Doevenspeck Singapore Fula Spoken in the City of Maroua (Northern Cameroon): A Sociolinguistic Boutché, Jean Pierre Cameroon Gabriele Sommer Insight into its Use by Non-Ethnic Speakers Chembea, Suleiman Kenya Competing and Conflicting Power Dynamics in Waqfs in Kenya: 1900-2010 Franz Kogelmann Athuman Ent-Täuschung des weißen Blicks: Rassismussensible Strategien für eine Dittmann, Julia Germany Susan Arndt ideologiekritische Filmanalyse Le Foncier Urbain à Bamako, Mali : Processus dans l'Impasse et Diligence des Doumbia, Lamine Mali Georg Klute Acteurs Face à l'Équation The Witch is not a Witch: The Dynamics and Contestations of Witchcraft Ac- Igwe, Leo Nigeria Ulrich Berner cusations in Northern Ghana Materna, Georg Germany Straßenhandel mit Souvenirs im Senegal: Akteure, Arbeit und Organisation Georg Klute Les Discours sur l'Homosexualité au Sénégal : L'Analyse d'une Lutte Mbaye, Aminata France Ute Fendler Représentationnelle Transnational Migration-Development Nexus: The Engagement of Ethiopian Mekonnen, Mulugeta Ethiopia Beate Lohnert Diaspora Associations Based in Germany Sensibilisation contre le VIH/SIDA au Cameroun: Analyse Sémiolinguistique Mellie, Didérot Djiala Cameroon Martina Drescher des affiches Religion and Nature in Africa: The Case of Matobo National Park and its Mtata, Kupakwashe Zimbabwe Ulrich Berner Vicinity Ngawa Mbaho, Carline La Vente des Produits de Santé dans les Cars Interurbains au Cameroun : Une Cameroon Martina Drescher Liliane Analyse Interactionnelle Riahi, Idris Simon Germany The Modernity of Witchcraft in the Ghanaian Online Setting Ulrich Berner Zwischen wirklichen Räumen und digitalen Aneignungsmodi: Nutzerkon- Rieß, Johanna Germany Matthias Christen struktionen des Internets in Nairobi, Kenia Station Ventures: Road Transport, Roadside Economies and Urban Hustle in Stasik, Michael Germany Kurt Beck Ghana

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Doctoral dissertations of BIGSAS Alumni published in 2017

Author Title of publication Publisher Abdallah, Salma Mohamed Charity Drops: Water Provision and the Politics of the Zakat Cham- LIT Verlag, Münster Abdalmunim ber in Khartoum, Sudan Competing and Conflicting Power Dynamics in Waqfs in Kenya: https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/3373/1/Doc- Chembea, Suleiman Athuman 1900-2010 toral%20Thesis_Chembea.pdf Die Einheit der Kinder Gihangas: Kulturelle Dynamiken und Dahlmanns, Erika Wilhelm Fink, Leiden, Boston politische Fiktionen der Neugestaltung von Gemeinschaft in Ruanda Donsomsakulkij, Weeraya Towards A South African Literary Post-Pastoralism Edition Assemblage, Münster Apples of Gold in Settings of Silver is a Word Spoken at the Right Firsching, Henrike LIT Verlag, Münster Time: The Translation of Biblical Metaphors in Hausa and Swahili The Witch is not a Witch: The Dynamics and Contestations of Witch- https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/3377/1/THESIS- Igwe, Leo craft Accusations in Northern Ghana finaldraft.pdf https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/3317/1/Re- The History of Use and Conservation of Marine Resources in Zanzi- Mkumbukwa, Abdallah R. vised%20PhD_Abdallah_Publication_10final. bar: Nineteenth Century to the Present pdf The Religious Men in Jebel Marra: The Process of Learning and the Mohammed, Bakheit M. Nur LIT Verlag, Münster Performance of Islamic Rituals and Practices Ndi, Gilbert Shang State/Society. Narrating Transformations in Selected African Novels LIT Verlag, Münster Trans-Boundary Resource Cooperation in the Lake Victoria Bay : An Owino, Robert Omondi LawAfrica, Nairobi International Environmental Law Perspective https://epub.uni-bayreuth. de/3403/1/%28Finale%20Vero%CC%88ffentlic hungsversion%29%20Riahi_The%20Moder- Riahi, Idris The Modernity of Witchcraft in the Ghanaian Online Setting nity%20of%20Witchcraft%20in%20the%20Gha- naian%20Online%20Setting%20%28PhD%20 Dissertation%29%20%28003%29.pdf Local State Institutional Reforms in Ghana: Actors, Legitimacy and Sabbi, Matthew Nomos, Baden-Baden the Unfulfilled Promise of Participatory Development Mobile Labore: Zur Diagnose und Organisation von Malaria in Umlauf, René Transcript, Bielefeld Uganda Regionalization of Higher Education in Africa: The Operationaliza- Woldegiorgis, Emnet Tadesse LIT Verlag, Münster tion of the African Union Higher Education Harmonization Strategy

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Ways forward in BIGSAS partnerships

BIGSAS welcomes its African Partner Universities coordinators and other guests from Algeria

TEXT JULIANE FENDER PHOTO CHRISTIAN WISSLER

In December 2017, the coordinators of the BIGSAS partner universities in Af- rica, BIGSAS management and BIGSAS postdocs met in Bayreuth to discuss possibilities for new collaborative - projects beside the existing pro fundedject “Academic by the European Mobility Union for African under theSustainable “Intra-Africa Development” Academic Mobility (AMAS)

2016). Brook Lemma Mamarou, Howl- etScheme” Ahmed since Beshir 2016 (both (see reportAddis inAbaba NAB - framework of EU programmes like Er- a brief tour of the impressive book col- zouvi (Université d’Abomey-Calavi, asmus+. lection in African studies. Benin),University, Anne Ethiopia), Nangulu, DodjiOmar Egesah Amou On 13 December 2018, an Algerian In the afternoon of the same day, (both Moi University, Kenya), Yamina delegation from the Université de Tle- the coordinators of the partner uni- El Kirat (Mohammed V University of mcen, Université de Khemis Miliana, versities and the Algerian delegation Rabat, Morocco), Gregório Firmino Université de Bouira and Centre de - (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Recherche en Anthropologie Sociale ident of the University of Bayreuth, Mozambique), Ruth Teer-Tomaselli et Culturelle (CRASC) visited BIG- Stefanwere officially Leible, thewelcomed vice president by the pres for and Sooryamoorthy Radhamani (both SAS and the University of Bayreuth International Affairs and Equal Op- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South to learn about our experience with portunities, Thomas Scheible, and the Africa) spent one intensive week in internationalisation strategies and Bayreuth for this purpose. They also networking in Higher Education. The Arnim Heinemann. The evening of this met with BIGSAS senior fellows to ex- visitors were introduced by Leonie daydirector was dedicated of the International to a guided tour Office, of change on the BIGSAS Sandwich Pro- Schoelen who participated in the BIG- the Ecological-Botanical Garden by gramme for doctoral students who SAS conference “Higher Education Marianne Lauerer as well as a get-to- - Partnership Trends and Policy Issues gether for all visitors and BIGSAS sors – one in Bayreuth and the other between African and European High- members in one of the greenhouses. inare a jointly BIGSAS supervised partner university.by two profes Elif BIGSAS was very happy to welcome Later that day, BIGSAS alumni Valerie the South African consul general for the Education, Audiovisual and Cul- Hänscher Education and Abraham Institutions” Brahima in 2015. ac- Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, tureMemis Executive Marsman, Agency project of advisorthe Euro at- companied the group on a tour of the George Monyemangene, and the di- current exhibitions at the Iwalewa- rector of International and Public Re- on 13-14 December 2017 to present haus while Vera Butz welcomed the lations at Samara University, Ethiopia, furtherpean Commission possible cooperation joined the in group the delegates to the university library for Abubeker Yassin Gebro, at this event.

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Future of Governance in Africa

First workshop of the BIGSAS workgroup ‘Governance in Africa’

TEXT BENEDICT ARKO PHOTO BIGSAS

Let us imagine a trip into the future: What would be the future of governance in Africa? Can we trace the an- tecedents of the future from the present? What would be the role of the citizen? How participatory would it be? Will the future be the same for all countries on the continent? These and more were the questions discussed

the BIGSAS Workgroup ‘Governance inand Africa’ debated (GiA) at theunder first the workshop title “The of Future of Governance in Africa: Lim- its, Challenges and Opportunities for No- vember 2017. Besides BIGSAS funding, Participatorythe workshop also Citizenship” received onadditional 2-3 funding from the Universitätsverein Bayreuth e.V. Organised under the guidance of BIGSAS senior fellow Alexander Stroh, the workshop brought together aca- that even though the African conti- ticipatory governance. Some presen- demics and practitioners from Germa- tations focused on the political situ- ny and African countries to discuss the progress in the pursuit of a democrat- ation in Rwanda, Libya and Tunisia theories and realities of participatory icnent culture, as a whole some is countries making significantwere lag- while others drew on political par- citizenship across different thematic ging behind. He, however, challenged ticipation in Europe and the United areas and African countries. The Dean young African scholars to return States. The discussions that ensued of BIGSAS, Dymitr Ibriszimow, praised home after their studies to help build after the presentations pointed to the the governance infrastructure of the complexity of the issue of governance hard in organising the conference. The continent. confronting many African countries. workshopthe junior also fellows presented who hadan opportu worked- Papers presented at the confer- Participants were, however, hopeful ence tackled the issue of governance of improved governance prospects for aspects of their theses to which they from different angles. Key among the the continent in the years to come. In receivednity for thevaluable junior feedback. fellows to present issues discussed included electoral the discussion, they strongly agreed Jeremiah Shola Omotola (Federal participation, resource governance, that there was a real need for more University Oye Ekiti, Nigeria) offered gender and governance, and the use empirical studies on issues of govern- the keynote address. He reiterated of the media and social media in par- ance in Africa.

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Workshop on Media, Culture and Society / History and Film

TEXT ROSE NYAKIO KIMANI tation of historical events, archival for the discussion of methodological questions, especially on the analysis realistic reconstruction of histori- of images and videos, and the ethics of calresearch places for through film, script digital writing, tools. andFor representation and meaning-making maximum effectiveness, the work- in creative analytical practices such History, film, media, culture, society shop format was designed to foster organised– these five by the loaded BIGSAS terms Media were Work the- both theoretical and practical skills. work and academic engagements in subjectgroup on of 24-28an intensive April 2017. five-day Given forum the Hence, discussions in the morn- as ethnographic film, biographical complex intertwining of media tech- ing sessions were complemented by and autoethno-graphy. In addition to nology and daily life, the workgroup theother conveners’ creative non-fictioninput, the workshop or fiction sought to explore the interlinkages afternoons. On the third evening of was enriched by presentations from between especially audio-visual me- thehands-on workshop, film editing Bekolo sessions held a photoin the dia, research and representation. which were met with constructive Thus, the idea of the workshop was Iwalewahaus, again drawing from feedbackBIGSAS students’ and discussion. research Ultimately, projects, born. The workshop was divided into hisexposition work. In and this film short screening exhibition at ‘thethe the workshop offered a forum to link duty of memory to the duty of his- media theory and practice, and more three days dedicated to history and tory’ was emphasised, bringing into importantly, was an opportunity for two distinct sections, with the first tool in the restoration of memory. practice. consistedfilm, including of lectures practical on aspects of focusThe the next place two ofdays film of theas a workshop valuable self-reflexivityThe BIGSAS in mediaMedia researchWorkgroup and media,film editing, culture while and society. the last two days focused on the more theoretical as- The section ‘History and Film’ pects of Media, Culture and Society. their mentors, looking at media from was facilitated by Jean-Pierre Bekolo, This section had as its main facilitator thebrings perspective together of junior media fellowsstudies as and a Keyan Tomaselli, emeritus Professor, with one of his crewmembers, he University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South - useda Cameroonian a documentary film maker.he was Present work- Africa. He was supported by co-con- proachesfield, also inin research.terms of appreciating The Workgroup and ing on for practical illustration. The veners from BIGSAS, namely Ivo Ritzer using media-specific theories and ap- documentary was especially relevant and Ute Fendler. The section encapsu- ing about media production, use and because it traced German colonial lated themes like representation, pop- contentprovides in juniorAfrica (be fellows it print research media, history in a village in Cameroon, and ular culture, media and social change audio-visual, television or online me- and gender in media. The background dia) with a space to exchange ideas, that were reconstructed through - provide each other with constructive archivalfocused onresearch. significant The real-life discussion events ory, media studies and the disciplin- around the documentary focused on ingtext, of ‘The practice’ in-disciplining by Keyan G. of Tomaselli film the as well as discuss texts on media the- the weighty questions of represen- and Damien R. Tomaselli set the stage orycriticism and methodology. of their individual projects

NAB Call for Papers NAB: Newsletter of African Studies at the University of Bayreuthis published annually by the Institute of African Studies. The deadline for submission of contributions is 20 October every year. Reports should have 450-500 words. Short texts (Guests, Personalia, In brief) should have 120-170 words. Main articles should have at least 750 words. Photos are always very welcome and should be submitted in original size and file format (not resized, not cropped). Minimum file size for report photos is 1,200 px width. One coloumn photos need to have at least 600 px width. All submissions should be sent in separate files with clear labels to [email protected].

NAB XVII - 2017 33 Installation view Alzire of Bayreuth by Kiso Lynn Lelliott. FAVT: Future Africa Visions in Time Salvador de Bahia

Installation view Fallen by Emeka Alams. FAVT: Future Africa Visions in Time Johannesburg FAVT

Future Africa Visions in Time: Indeed a process! The Bayreuth Academy signature exhibition two years after its inception

“An exhibition as process” was the tag-line of the first Bay- tegrated into the FAVT project, hence further accentuating reuth Academy exhibition, “FAVT: Future Africa Visions the open and process-oriented exhibition concept. The lo- in Time,” in 2015 at the Iwalewahaus. Over 40 artists and cal curators in the locations above were Anisha Soff (Nairobi researchers took part in the project, investigating differ- and Johannesburg), Tiago Sant’Ana (Salvador de Bahia), ent notions of ‘future’. The exhibition served as a space Aino Moongo (Windhoek), Susanne Gerhard (Harare) and for thoughts about productive entanglements of art and Felicia Nitsche (Ouagadougou). The next editions of FAVT research and in-between modes of thinking and practice. will be in Ouagadougou, Bukina Faso (September 2018), San- Future emerged not as a noun in the show, but rather in tiago de Cuba (April 2019), Kampala (August 2019) and Kigali the shape of doings conceptualised as ‘modes of futuring’ (November 2019). such as desiring, queering and remembering. Nine notions The traveling concept is indeed a fantastic moment to were beautifully translated into symbols by Seattle-based live up to the slogan that knowledge in African studies can designer Emeka Alams which served as a navigation system be best generated by and with colleagues on the spot: “Re- throughout the exhibition. search on Africa is only possible with Africa”. For instance, In 2017, the opportunity came for the 2015 FAVT experi- the highly acclaimed installation “The Afrofuturist Village” by ence to be replicated and expanded since the exhibition had the Windhoek-based curator Masiyaleti Mbewe showed that been curated in Africa and Latin America. Thanks to coop- the future is here; is an inclusive one; is a space not in space eration with Goethe Institutes, FAVT was exhibited in April but right among us where the “isms of race, colour, fetish” 2017 in the National Museums Nairobi, Kenya, in August 2017 etc. do not exist. In Harare, Kupakwashe Mtata (Bayreuth concurrently in Johannesburg, South Africa and Salvador Academy) and FAVT contributors Tumi Mogorosi (Johannes- da Bahia, Brazil, in January 2018 in Windhoek, Namibia and burg) and Sam Makuvaza (University of Bulawayo) mused on in March 2018 in Harare, Zimbabwe. In each of FAVT exhibi- spirituality and land as part of the exhibition workshop. tions, Nadine Siegert and Katharina Fink were responsible for the overall concept and enactment. In each of the exhi- For more information, see: FAVT: Future Africa Visions in Time bition locations, the hosts contributed to the development (Contact Zones NRB, 2017). Available in the Iwalewahaus of the FAVT concept by inviting local artists and researchers bookshop. Follow the FAVT blog: www.favt.blog.

Photos: Goethe-Institute Photos: to contribute. A number of these new additions are now in- (Katharina Fink)

Photo: Goethe-Institute Installation view FAVT: Future Africa Visions in Time Windhoek Time in Visions FAVT: Africa view Future Installation

Summer exhibitions 2017 // Iwalewahaus Ndidi Dike: Constellations - Floating Space, Motion and Remembrance

As part of the summer exhibitions in 2017, the Iwalewahaus invited Ndidi Dike, one of the major contemporary Nigerian artists, for an artist residency in Bayreuth which culminated in the opening of the exhibitions “Constellations” curated by Lena Naumann and assisted by Felicia Nitsche. Part of this project was already exhibited at the Landesgartenschau in Bayreuth in 2016 when Dike was invited by the Kunstverein Bayreuth to exhibit in their pavilion. At the Iwalewahaus, Dike’s four-room multimedia installation described constellations and spaces. These show hierarchies, relations and arrangements between human beings and material objects connected to current political events and specific moments in history. In this case, the politics of migration, transnationalism and the globalised consumer culture were in focus. This led to the production of a multi-disciplinary dialogue in a new body of installations and video featuring some of the complexities and dynamics of forced migration.

Migration or the movement of people in space is not a new pheno- menon. On the contrary, although the conditions, reasons and con- sequences of these movements vary, migration is indeed an essential part of human history. Dike illustrated that the transatlantic slave trade was one of the most glaring examples of forced, brutal and violent ‘migration’ in history, while linking it to the political, social and economic realities that cause migration, displacement and flight today. “Constellations” displayed different moments of transit and fragmented perspectives on the journeys of migrants, along with their causes and repercussions. Three rooms at the Iwalewahaus reflected Dike’s artistic involvement with the topic, while the corridor with its hovering unseaworthy boats served both as a starting point and entrance. All the works referenced Michel Foucault’s concept of ‘heterotopia’, a space that “has the power of juxtaposing in a single real place different spaces and locations that are incompatible with each other.” At the same time, they function as spaces of remembrance thus conveying the complex contexts of migration and narrating moments of tragedy and lived experiences. (Lena Naumann) Photos: Sabine Linn Ruth Weiss – “Die Macht der Worte” or “My very first question to you!” The exhibition was displayed from 19 May to 17 September came a journalist for the Guardian and the Investors Chronicle 2017 at the Iwalewahaus. It was the third episode of the in London. Later she moved to Lusaka, Zambia’s capital city in traveling exhibition that was created by the Basler Afrika 1977. During that time, she worked for the Times of Zambia as Bibliographien (BAB) in Switzerland. Before its presenta- well as for the London Financial Times. Lusaka became head- tion at the Iwalewahaus, the acoustic portrait of journalist quarter for many southern African liberation movements and Ruth Weiss and southern African liberation politics was also Ruth Weiss got the chance to meet and interview many im- shown at the South African Jewish Museum in Capetown, portant political leaders. At that time, she established many South Africa. friendships with African politicians and their families. After The exhibition portraits the life and work of Ruth Weiss, 1980, when Zimbabwe became independent, Weiss moved who worked as a journalist during Apartheid and was part of back to Harare where she co-founded the South African Econ- the Anti-Apartheid Movement. She was born in 1924 as Ruth omist and trained journalists from the region. Löwenthal in Fürth (Germany) into a Jewish family. Emigrat- Specific about her work is the fact that she rarely used a ing from Nazi Germany in 1936, she and her family moved to camera for interviews. She archived many of her taped in- Johannesburg (South Africa). Weiss grew up under Apart- terviews which was special because tapes where normally heid and the growing resistance in the 1950s by the black often used several times after another. She, however, kept majority led to her increasing political awareness and com- some 180 tapes with interviews, press conferences and mu- mitment to anti-racism, anti-colonialism, African liberation sic recordings. This unique audio archive, apart from her vast and nationalism. Since the 1960s, Ruth Weiss worked as a paper and manuscript collection, is stored and archived at newspaper and radio journalist in Johannesburg. Six years the Basler Afrika Bibliographien. The exhibition was curated later she became the bureau chief of the Financial Mail in by Dag Henrichsen, Susanne Hubler Baier, Jürg Kissling and Salisbury (Harare) in neighbouring Rhodesia (today Zimba- Anna Vögeli Litelu for the Basler Afrika Bibliographien. At bwe). the Iwalewahaus the exhibition was co-curated by Alexan- Due to her work, writing critical reports and articles dra Kuhnke who works for the digital archive DEVA. against the regime, Weiss had to leave the country and be- (Alexandra Kuhnke) EXODUS STATIONS #2

This exhibition in the winter semester 2017 was part of the the Iwalewahaus collection was sent to the artists as a point larger research and exhibition project Exodus Stations by of departure for their engagement with the archive. It con- Paris-based researcher and curator Marta Jecu. Exodus Sta- stituted a selection of archival images by Ulli Beier – the tions #2 was curated by Marta Jecu, Felicia Nitsche and Na- founder and first director of the Iwalewahaus. The archival dine Siegert. For the overall exhibition concept, she invites images were taken during Beier’s stay in Nigeria along with contemporary artists to work with museum collections. This the artists Susanne Wenger and Georgina Beier (1950–1966 project housed at the Iwalewahaus inscribed itself into the and 1971–1974). From such material, Beier’s role and self- general focus of Exodus Stations following founding histo- presentation in Nigeria was well-received. ries of museum institutions, their founding figures, the rep- During their stay at the Iwalewahaus, Tatiana Macedo resentation of their collections in documentary materials and Raphaël Denis carried out in-depth research on the per- and historic display forms. The project brings to attention son Ulli Beier, and from a more conceptual point of view, case studies of museums that blend artistic, ethnographical on how the Iwalewahaus archive is structured. Individually, and archival materials and questions these collections. Af- they developed their own way of approaching the archive, ter a residency period in the archives of selected European after finding different points of reference to it. The video museums, the artists elaborated a critical and interpretative installations they created from their engagement and the view on the history of the objects and the meanings they material gathered showed new conceptual framings of the bear in relation to differing collection strategies and institu- archival material. tional ideologies. For Exodus Stations #2, the artists Tatiana Macedo (Por- During the exhibition opening, a public colloquium took tugal) and Raphaël Denis (France) were invited as artists- place in which artists, curators and academics were invited in-residence at the Iwalewahaus. Each of them stayed for to discuss their own perspectives on working with the ar- almost two weeks in summer 2017. A corpus of items from chives and collections at the Iwalewahaus in particular. Photo: Sabine Linn SPACES – Perception. Reflection. Intervention Focusing on artistic perspectives on physical, imagined and virtual spaces and (free) urban spaces, the traveling exhibition SPACES – Perception. Reflection. Intervention displayed works by the artists Ammar Abo Bakr, Engy

Aly, Medhat Amin, Andeel, Amr El Alamy, Ganzeer, Yara Mekawei, Monti, Ahmad Nady, Islam Shabana and Shen- nawy. After shows in Cologne and Delmenhorst, the process-oriented project initiated and curated by Heid- run Mezger and Fabian Heerbaart was enriched and continued through the artist residencies of Ahmad Nady, Islam Shabana and Yara Mekawei at the Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth. In June 2017, the artists engaged with spaces in Bay- reuth in various ways and using different media and perspectives: Ahmad Nady dedicated his residency to the working women in the city centre regardless of their age, class and profession. Breaking cultural borders, for example by inviting them to visit his studio for a portrait session, once he encountered an interesting personal- ity at their workspace, he finally interviewed a dozen women. He asked them about their careers, difficulties of being a woman (and a mother) and most importantly their dreams. Simultaneously, he drafted digital sketch- es which he later developed into socio-critical portraits pointing out an essential part of what matters to them in their real and dream spaces. Yara Mekawei created an installation based on the Jewish-American author Elly Wiesel’s credo ‘No one is illegal’. She built an auratic ar- SPACES – Perception. Reflection. Intervention chitectural construction, the skeleton of a religious, inaccessible grave illuminated by black light and completed it with a video installation of images and sounds shot and recorded in places of Jewish and migration history.

Included in the installation as well was her temporary artist flat in town and previous collected materials. Au- dio-visually overlapping and distorting notions of war, displacement, remembrance and home, she revealed the complexities of human rights, identity and values shaped by spaces. Islam Shabana continued his engagement following Palestinian writer, Hussein Barghoutis’ text Architecture of Memory by visualising spaces in literature. After reading the forgotten poems of German- Jewish Hilde Marx who escaped the Nazi regime to the US, the artist developed a virtual reality space including the most common places mentioned in her writings connected to a part of nowadays city image, including the iconic bronze sculpture of Richard Wagner. Besides the virtual space available only through the VR “glasses”, Is- lam Shabana’s installation drew on the metaphor of the sea, screening waves with one of her quotes essentialis- ing the experience of exile. The exhibition, 19 May–17 September 2017, highlighted the perceptions, deconstructions and visions of spaces as countered and imagined by the artists and further discussed, exchanged, performed and presented during the programme of the 49° Grenzüberschreitungen Festi- val – SPACES. (Siegrun Salmanian) Photos: Sabine Linn “Floating Bodies” An installation by Talya Lubinsky

Johannesburg-based artist Talya Lubinsky developed the idea for the installation “Floating Bodies” (2017) during her artist-in-residence in 2016 at the Iwalewa- haus. During this time, she did some research in the Ulli Beier Photographic Estate at the Iwalewahaus in cooperation with the Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding (CBCIU) in Oshogbo, Nigeria. The biography of her grandfather, especially his personal background as a German Jew, who had to flee from Nazi Germany to Nigeria, inspired the artist for this project. Her father left Duisburg, Germany in 1936 and fled to South Africa. Ulli Beier’s story re- minded Talya Lubinsky of her own family history. What happened to survivors of the Holocaust in African countries? Lubinsky’s grandfather became part of the colonial middle class and part of the Apartheid system in South Africa. Due to their skin colour as white, her displaced grandfather gained a completely new and powerful position in the colonial society. In describing his childhood in an interview, Lubinsky’s grandfather remem- bered a flood of the River Rhine which washed up bodies that had been buried. Lubinsky metaphorically addressed these themes in her installation creating links between the stories of flight and pain of Holocaust survivors in Germany and their emergence as powerful actors in colonialism in Africa. She disrupts the often forcefully separated narratives of the persecution of European Jews and the life stories of those who escaped the atrocities of the Third Reich. For the installation, she used about 600 sandbags, which were arranged in the shape of a waterfall. By mixing content and materiality, Lubinsky opens and breaks up the violent, obscure past of history and puts it into a new poetic context. Her starting point for the exhibition was the natural power of flood water to unearth long-buried bodies. Sandbags are used consciously by people to draw boundaries and to protect against floods. The water or the flood, however, has such power to break through and transform these man-made boundaries. In the installation, water represents metaphorically fluidity, migration (movement) and limitless power. She also showed that the context is not limited to the past but is also connected to current global events. The installation was exhibited at the Iwalewahaus as part of the summer exhibitions in April to September 2017. (Christina Heydenreich) Photos: Sabine Linn Lieblingsstücke how to make art collections accessible

In today’s postcolonial museum discourse Formation of a Modern Aesthetic based at the – and not only since the debates about the Iwalewahaus teamed up with the Bayerische Humboldt Forum in Berlin gained momen- Forschungs- und Informationsstelle Inklusive tum – the question about the position of col- Hochschulen und Kultureinrichtungen (Bay- lections and their relation to the audience is Fink) group in realising the exhibition titled crucial. While provenance studies might help Lieblingsstücke – 36 Objekte des Monats with ethnographers to legitimise the existence of the aim of developing different narratives that collections, modern day and contemporary criss-cross the coagulated story of the origin art from the Global South also begs for legiti- of the Iwalewahaus collection. A variety of misation. Initially, these collections might not entry points were adopted, for instance, art so suggest colonial historical contamination, historical, poetic and ethnographic perspec- but still do so when placed in political con- tives which were then subjected to different texts that are framed by postcolonial power curatorial strategies. imbalances and the tensed relationship be- Instead of repeating the relationship with tween arts and politics. The Iwalewahaus, the the collector, we instead took the Object of the art jewel of the University of Bayreuth, relays Month series as a starting point. These objects to the city of Bayreuth and the international and not the collector or the artists are in focus art world the complex and intertwined mes- and were selected over the last three years sages of the art collection by its founding di- by a diverse group of people including the rector, Ulli Beier. Iwalewahaus technical, administrative and cu- On the above premise, the core group of ratorial team and international guest research- the research project African Art History and the ers. The selection of these pieces is based on their affective relationship with the artworks: the reason they are called Lieblingsstücke, i.e. the all-time favourite objects of the collection. One of the most popular pieces of the collection is Twins Seven-Seven’s Devil’s Dog that at- tained a ‘Mona Lisa’-like status at the Iwalewa- haus due to its popularity within the canon of African Art history.

Beyond this engagement with the history and structure of the Iwalewahaus collections, Lieblingsstücke also embarked on a curatorial process that focussed on the multi-sensory accessibility of the aesthetic dimensions of the art works. The exhibition offered videos in the German Sign Language, tactile copies of the artworks and braille texts for visually impaired visitors. An audio-guide added to the multi-layered art experience. The Iwalewa- haus, with the help of BayFinK, emerged as an inclusive museum and art space. (Katharina Fink & Nadine Siegert) Photos: Sabine Linn TEXT Siegrun Salmanian and backyard, it had exhibitions in - PHOTOs Sabine Linn neglected spaces such as the under- delrahman Abdellatif presented the ground connection between the pe- Germanfilmmakers premiere Youssef of Alimamtheir short and docu Ab- destrian zone and a parking in the city Libido (2012), Spaces – following different perspec- and a short pedestrian tunnel around which deals with questions of sexu- the university. ality,mentary education fiction and film taboo in private one meaning – was the overall theme Following Ulli Beier’s philosophy and public spaces. The iconographies oftives the and2017 definitions edition of the not revived limited an toof crossing borders while also consid- of spaces of revolution were examined nual 49° Grenzüberschreitungen Fes- ering contemporary global political in an icon lab session and a workshop tival at the Iwalewahaus which took developments, visionary artists and place on 22–24 June 2017. With a re- researchers were invited to present Abdelrahman Abo Bakr in the Moham- gional focus on the “African Middle ideas, perform, rethink and create a medbased Mahmoud on the graffiti Street in and Cairo murals during by critical discourse about spaces. Thus, the Egyptian Revolution. In the lecture and music festival was connected to on different levels, borders were left series (Re)Visions of Spaces, Randa Abo theEast” process-oriented and specifically exhibition Egypt, the Spac art- behind in an intercultural, interdis- Bakr, Atef Botros and Nesreen Hus- es – Perception. Reflection. Intervention. ciplinary and interactive ambience sein discussed their recent research Aiming to break further borders, capturing utopic visions of a contem- on visualities of the virtual, the prison set structures and conventions, the porary space while encountering and and the performative spaces examin- festival invaded public spaces in Bay- curating the dense and overlapping ing creative space through different reuth. Besides the Iwalewahaus foyer web of the programme. The young theoretical approaches. The screen-

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ing of Jihan El Tahri’s Egypt’s Modern Pharaohs highlighted the complexities Alimam and Mohab El Sherbini’s group space where character is beauty – as of spaces and times of power through withduced bypractitioners a jam session from uniting Palestine, Youssef theon its Iwalewahaus historical legacy, is dedicated i.e. affirming to, and a the regimes of Nasser, el Sadat and Syria and Nairobi’s DJ and drummer brushing aside the realties and im- Mubarak. Work and gender were at Khoisan Hassan from Abakasimba, who opened the stage with smooth, transforming and reclaiming them in Ahmad Nady, Islam Shabana and Yara traditional rhythms from the Swahili conceptual,aginations ofabstract, spaces poetic by redefining, and di- the heart of the residency projects by coast. Later, the concert space was rect ways. and locally-limited multidisciplinary The festival was supported by In- research-basedMekawei who developed artworks. site-specific Space as punk-pop-electro songs by Youssef stitut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA), a tool to empower the community, Alimam,filled with accompanied ambient, experimental,by Mohab El Moving Mena, Goethe-Institute Cairo, to change the face of the city and to Sherbini. More folky, oriental vibes Institute of African Studies, Studen- characterised DJane Yara Mekawei’s tenwerk University of Bayreuth and points emerging from the presenta- set including VJing by Islam Shabana. the City of Bayreuth in partnerships tiondefine by identityAssil Diab was aka one Sudalove of the which major DJ Zhao navigated out of the festival with the Orientalisches Seminar Uni- was also about her work as a female by merging and transgressing old gold - artist challenging the public spaces of and its changing sound geographies of tion 5.0 of the Bayreuth Academy, VR the Muslim society in Sudan and Qatar. Africa, Europe and Asia. versity of Cologne, Subproject Revolu- The musical part of the 49° Gren- By opening and intertwining dif- rum, Kültürklüb e.V., Das Zentrum and züberschreitungen Festival was intro- ferent space bubbles, the festival drew SpielmobilLab University Bayreuth. of Bayreuth, Graffitifo

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Tatek Abebe Tatek Abebe is an Associate Professor and coordinator of the MPhil programme in Childhood Studies at the Norwegian University of Sciences and Technology Trondheim, where he also teaches courses such as Children and Development in the Global South and Methods and Ethics in Childhood Studies. He doubles as the Director of the Council for Development of Social Science Research in Afri- ca’s (CODESRIA) 2017 Child and Youth Institute and also coordinates the Nordic Network of African Children and Youth Research. He is an Editorial Board Mem- ber of Childhood, Children’s Geographies and Fennia: International Journal of Geog- raphy. Abebe was invited to Bayreuth by Erdmute Alber as part of the Bayreuth Academy Working Group “Learning for the Future – Transdisciplinary Perspec- - ber 2017 to January 2018, he worked on deepening theoretical and conceptual insightstives on Knowledgeinto his research Transmission on the generational in Africa and implications beyond”. During of development his stay, Octo on young people’s lives, and fostering collaborative research and publication on children’s learning and labouring for the future in Africa. Abebe is the author of

two books, co-author of 14 others and over 20 articles in international journals. Dores Cruz Dores Cruz holds an MA from the University of Porto, Portugal and a PhD from Binghamton University, UK. She currently doubles as a researcher at the Inter- disciplinary Centre for Evolution of Human Behaviour, University of Algarve, and as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Uni- versity of Denver. She was formerly a Senior Lecturer in the Department of An- thropology and Archaeology, University of Pretoria. Dores Cruz was a guest of the Bayreuth Institute of Advanced African Studies in October 2017, and was

She was a recipient of the DU Internationalisation Grants, the Colorado State Historicala member Fundof the Research Bayreuth Grants Academy and Postdocthe Fulbright Working Fellowship, Group “After amongst Socialism”. others. Her research foci are Historical Anthropology, African Studies, Landscape An- thropology, Social construction of Memory, Heritage, Portuguese colonialism, Mozambique and Ethnoarchaeology. Paulo Gaibazzi Paulo Gaibazzi is a trained social anthropologist with a PhD from the Univer- sity of Milano-Bicocca. He worked as a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Latvia. Since February 2012, he is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Modern Orient (ZMO) in Berlin. His research focus is on West Africa, and in particular, on The Gambia and Soninke-speaking milieus. His current research is an extension to his research on migration and mobility theory. Paulo Gaibazzi uses (im)mobility as a prism to look at a number of themes such as

Islamic), bio-political regimes (especially borders), the reproduction of social inequalitiesthe production (slave of subjectivities descendants (especiallyin West Africa), about and youths), visuality ethics (especially (agrarian pho and- tography). Gaibazzi was a guest of the Bayreuth Academy in May 2017. He was a

member of the Postdoc Working Group “Waiting for Futures”.

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Henriette Gunkel Henriette Gunkel (PhD) lectures at the Department of Visual Cultures, Gold- smiths College, University of London. Between 2008 and 2013, she worked in various teaching and research positions at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, Anglophone Literatures, University of Bayreuth, the University of Fort Hare, South Africa, and the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London. In 2017, she was a guest scholar at the Bay- - - reuth Academy where she worked with Subproject 4, “Concepts of Future in Me dia Spaces” and the Hauntology Work Group. She presentedThe a Chronopolitical lecture on “Haun Im- tologyplications and of Afrofuturism the Africanist – ScienceGhosts andFictional Zombies Interventions – the formless. Henriette matters”. Gunkel She also has carriedpublished out widely research on arton aand book visual project cultures tentatively in internationally-renowned titled publications. She is currently working on a monograph that focuses on African sci- Visual Cultures as Time Travel with Ayesha Hameed. ence fictional interventions, and also co-authoring a book titled

Pascal Bianchini Pascal Bianchini holds a PhD in African Studies form Bordeaux I CEAN, France. He has been a CNRS researcher, an associate researcher at CEAN and an associate researcher at SEDET which became CESSMA in 2008. He was also a member of the Observatory of Student Policy and Higher Education Research in Africa (OSPHERA) Network. His research themes include Crises and School Reforms,

Mobility. Pascal Bianchini was a guest of the Bayreuth Institute of Advanced AfricanEducational Studies adjustment, in October Intelligentsia 2017, and was and a member politics, andof the Schooling Bayreuth and Academy Social movements in Sub-Saharan Africa and militant careers around the period May 1968Postdoc in Senegal. Working His Group area “Afterof study Socialism”. is Sub-Saharan He is currentlyAfrica, precisely, working Senegal, on student Bur- kina Faso and Rwanda.

Brook Lemma Mamaru Brook Lemma Mamaru is Professor of Biology at the College of Natural Science at the BIGSAS Partner University, Addis Ababa University (AAU) in Ethiopia. As the BIGSAS Partner University Representative of AAU he took part in BIGSAS management board meetings, and he also gave a lecture on “The experience of Addis Ababa University in solving the puzzles of expectations and challenges - inPartner post-graduate Universities expansion called ‘Academicon Ethiopia”. Mobility Furthermore, for African he contributed Sustainable toDevel projects in the context of Higher Education research and the project of the BIGSAS Ecology with regard to lake management at Technische Universität Dresden. His researchopment’ (http://amasproject.org).foci are Fish and Freshwater Lemma Ecology Mamaru and Watersheddid his PhD Management on Freshwater of Freshwater Systems, now at the Lake Zway, in collaboration with other disciplines e.g. social sciences.

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Christoper J. Lee Christopher J. Lee is a Lecturer at CISA and in the Department of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He previously taught in the United States and Canada, precisely at Stanford, Harvard, Dalhou- sie Universities as well as at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dur- ing his visit in October 2017 as a guest of the Bayreuth Academy, Christopher J. Lee researched under the framework of the Postdoc Working Group “After So-

Academycialism”. He in wasJune a 2016. member In of2017, Working he was Group part Gof “Future(s) the organisational as societal team Project(s): of the workgroupActors and their“After visions Socialism: in Africa Forgotten and beyond” Legacies and and Guest Possible Fellow Futures at the Bayreuth in Africa

with Constantin Katsakioris (Bayreuth Academy) and Nadine Siegert (Iwalewa- haus).and Beyond” He received of the his Bayreuth PhD in AfricanAcademy. history He also from organised Stanford a University.workshop together Trained as a socio-cultural historian, his teaching and research interests concern the social, political, and intellectual histories of southern Africa.

Jeremiah Shola Omotola Jeremiah Shola Omotola teaches Political Science at the Federal University in Oye Ekiti, Nigeria, where he has been associate professor since 2016. He is also the Director of Research and Development and Head of the Department of Po- litical Science. Previously, Omotola served as a Consulate at the National Insti-

Institute for Security Studies in South Africa. Omotola’s research interests are comparativetute for Legislative policies Studies and elections, in Abuja andespecially worked the at Redeemer’srising number University of ‘incumbent in the losers’ and the topic of failing re-election. He worked on two case studies in Ni- geria and Ghana. During his guest visit at BIGSAS he worked closely with Alex- ander Stroh from African Politics and Development Policy. “Coming to Bayreuth

also supported the BIGSAS work group ‘Governance in Africa’ by sharing his experienceis another step about forward,” citizenship he described in Ghana hisand experience Nigeria. at the university. Omotola

Shawn Constant In 2017, Shawn Constant was the guest of BayFinK. He held a lecture on inclu- sion and urban space at the Iwalewahaus. Shawn Constant is an experienced - - nesburgCommunity over Liaison the past Officer six years. within Coming the architecture from a previously field overseeing disadvantaged and backman- ground,aging community he has used development architecture processes and how ofthe several discipline public can projects be used inas Johana tool to create cohesive and inclusive environments within previously disadvantage communities within Johannesburg namely Westbury. He is the founder of the Reid Foundation, which works with children that have special needs and disabilities – something that is very dear to him. The aim of the Foundation is to create cohesive and inclusive environments for children with special needs and disabilities driven by architecture. Shawn’s corporate background is as a trade unionist working for the Massmart group.

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Brahim El Fasskaoui Brahim El Fasskaoui is Professor of Geography at the University Moulay Ismaïl in Meknes, Morocco. He visited BIGSAS from 28 June to 28 July 2017 in the framework of research on indigenous knowledge. He took part and presented a paper in the seminar “Under the Baobab Tree: Reframing Perceptions and Conceptions

Agadir or collectiveof Indigenous granaries Knowledge”. in Southern El Fasskaoui Morocco, alsoand collaboratedthe second on with the earthen Herbert archi Popp- (emeritus professor, Bayreuth) on two book projects: theThe first Road on of the the Kasbahs. During his stay he also met with other colleagues from Germany, e.g. Andreas tecture of the Amazigh (the so-called “Berber”) entitled

aboutKagermeier the know-how (University of the of Amazigh,Trier), with their whom socio-political he collaborates institutions, on some their projects: skills “Altogether, these joint research projects helped me to deepen my knowledge - iorin the fellows management and other of students natural andresources, colleagues especially at the Universitywater, pastures of Bayreuth. and forest,” El Fasskaoui confided. Besides, he had many fruitful exchanges with BIGSAS jun Albert Kasanda Albert Kasanda was a BIGSAS visiting professor in June-August 2017. During his stay in Bayreuth, he participated in the conference “The Future of Govern- ance in Africa: Limits, Challenges and Opportunities for Participatory Citizen-

youngship”, organised people and by the the secondBIGSAS on work the group African ‘Governance Intercultural in Africa’, Philosophy, and gave e.g. twothe relationshiplectures. The between first paper cultures focused in the on context African of Activismthe African and experience. social protests Kasanda by praised the library of the University of Bayreuth where he spent a lot of time.

the Centre for Global Studies, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of SciencesHe also finished in Prague, a manuscript Czech Republic. about He witchcraft studied Politicalin Africa. and Currently, General hePhilosophy works at at the University of Louvain in Belgium and did his PhD on the American philosopher John Rawls and his Theory of Justice. Kasanda also spent two years in Mexico where he worked as a teacher and a translator from Spanish to French, e.g. for the works of Enrique Dussel.

Mark Nash Mark Nash theory and culture, editing screen between 1977 and 1981. He has worked with is an independent curator and writer. HisFrantz formation Fanon: was Black in Skin film White Mask and the exhibition Re-imaging October at the Calvert 22 Founda- tionartist in Isaac 2009. Julien He collaborated on several projectswith Okwui such Enwezor as the film on The Short Century exhibition and Documenta XI. Most recently he curated Things Fall Apart at Calvert 22 Foundation. He also curated Things Fall Apart / Red Africa: Affective Communities and the Cold War in 2015-17. In Bayreuth, he organised the workshop Socialist Friendship in October 2017 with funding from the Bayreuth University Gradu- ate School together with Nadine Siegert (Iwalewahaus). The workshop brought together international researchers that form a network around the topics of socialism in African Art studies.

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Graziella Moraes Da Silva Graziella Moraes da Silva holds an MA and a PhD in Sociology from Harvard University. She is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology of De- velopment at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. Between 2011 and 2016 Graziella worked at the Department of Sociology, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro,

Anthropology and the Interdisciplinary Network for the Study of Inequality. In MarchBrazil where2017, she she was is still a guest affiliated of the to Bayreuth the Graduate Academy, Programme where inshe Sociology held the andlec- ture, “Re-making class, race and nation: Black middle class and new elites in

- tiveBrazil race and relations South Africa.” and elite’s Her researchperceptions is at of the poverty intersection and inequality. between inequalityShe is one ofstudies the authors and cultural of Getting sociology. Respect: Her Dealing current with research Stigmatization projects andfocus Discrimination on compara in the United States, Brazil and Israel (Princeton University Press 2016), among other works. Moraes Da Silva’s areas of expertise include Poverty and Inequal- ity, Cultural Sociology, and Developing countries.

Ammar Abo Bakr Ammar Abo Bakr graduated in painting from the Luxor Institute of Fine Arts and is one of the most famous street art producers in Cairo. His sociopolitical work was especially important during the Egyptian revolution. A focus in his internationally spread work in particular is on the martyrs of the revolution as well as historical, popular, Coptic and Islamic icons and themes. He was invited to the Iwalewahaus to present and discuss his work in Mohammed Mahmoud street during a workshop and icon lab session as part of a cooperation with

politischer und gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche: Eine Untersuchung ikonographis- the Bayreuth Academy and the research project “Kairener Graffiti als Spiegel Cologne. He also participated in the 49° Grenzüberschreitungen Festival in the cher Dynamiken und Selbstverortungen junger Künstler” at the University of the local artists from 865er crew. His work, fragmenting and repeating the head andartistic face exchange of an old withman, Sudalove might refer as partto the of witnessingthe live graffiti and wise collaboration eye facing with the

violent conflicts of an Egypt in change. Ruth Weiss Born in 1924 as Ruth Löwenthal in Fürth, Germany, into a Jewish family, Ruth Weiss emigrated with her family from Nazi Germany in 1936 and settled in Johannesburg, South Africa. She grew up in a society with entrenched rac-

in South Africa led to her increasing political awareness and commitment to- wardsism named antiracism, apartheid. anti-colonialism, Growing resistance African in liberation the 1950s and by thenationalism. black majority Since - burg. In May 2017, Ruth Weiss visited the Iwalewahaus. In a roundtable discus- sionthe 1960s, on “Aesthetic Ruth Weiss & Activism worked – as In a conversation newspaper and with radio Ndidi journalist Dike, Ruth in WeissJohannes and

to activism. Talya Lubinsky”, Weiss talked about her work, her books and her live in relation

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Ahmad Nady Ahmad Nady is an illustrator, graphic animator and as a caricaturist well known in the Arabic-speaking world. He holds a BA in painting from Helwan University Cairo. He is a teacher and an art director in numerous animation stu- dios, several newspapers and magazines such as Aladdin and Sabah Elkheer. For his graphic novel Apartment Bab El Louk he was awarded the Mahmoud Khalil Award. For his political work, which reached a peak during the Egyptian revolution, he mainly used the digital space to avoid censorship, but also spread images in public space such as on Tahrir place. Being concerned not only with political developments but also social evils such as sexual harassment in Cairo’s metros, he engaged with a similar sociocritical perspective in Bayreuth. For his residency at the Iwalewahaus in June 2017 during the 49° Grenzüberschreitun- gen Festival SPACES and the connected exhibition SPACES – Perception. Reflec- tion. Intervention, he created a homage of a dozen digital drawings depicting portraits of working women in the city centre, with a focus on their aspirations and difficulties. Youssef Alimam Youssef Alimam graduated from the High Cinema Institute in Cairo and was further trained at the Recording Arts Canada in Montreal. He works interna- - reer, he was part of the underground Egyptian punk rock band “Circus Mon- filmmaker and musician. BeforeSpeed of he Light started and Libidohis solo were caشوحولا as a freelance كريسtionally screened at international festivals and received great attention in the Arabic- sters”speaking ( internet. Youssef’). His lowAlimam budget was short invited films to the 49° Grenzüberschreitun- gen Festival – SPACES where he not only premiered the latter, controversial was the main act of the music programme accompanied by Mohab El Sherbini. Inshort Bayreuth, documentary-fiction his performance with was co-filmmaker characterised Abdelrahman by an experimental Abdellatif, fusion but also of ambient, electronical sounds synergised and contrasted by drums and guitars in between the genres of indie, electro, punk and pop.

Kitso Lynn Lelliott Kitso Lynn Lelliott visited Bayreuth in 2017 where she was awarded the prestigious Iwalewahaus Art Award for her work on the memory of the transatlantic slave trade. She was also one of the scholars contributing to the Bayreuth at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in Art and Film Studies. Academy Working Group on “Hauntology”. Kitso Lynn Lelliot obtained a PhD the world. She is preoccupied with articulations from spaces beyond epistemic powerHer work and has the been crisis shown such epistemicallyat film-festivals, disobedient art galleries articulations and museums cause around to hegemony. Her current work and doctorate engage socio-cultural formations that during her residency with the Sacatar Foundation in Brazil. Her work is an en- took shape over the Atlantic during the African slave trade, a project initiated- ing South-South relations imaginatively and epistemologically unmediated by theactment Global of North.elision between historically subjugated subjectivities while privileg

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Esther Peeren Esther Peeren is Professor of Cultural Analysis at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam. She is also vice-director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) and vice-director of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisations Studies. With Jeroen de Kloet, she is series editor of Palgrave Studies in Globalisation, Culture and Society. In 2017, she visited the Bayreuth

will be part of the upcoming publication Ghosts, Specters, Revenants: Hauntology asAcademy a Means to tobe Think part of and the Feel Working Future Group (Thurnauer “Hauntology”. Schriften She zum gave Musiktheater) a lecture that

research focuses on processes of marginalisation and questions of agency, the under-illuminatedand also participated impact in the of globalisation workshop held on ruralat fimt, areas, Thurnau. and the Esther changing Peeren’s relationship between centres and peripheries. Other interests are popular culture, modern literary, cultural theory and 20th and 21st century English and Ameri-

can literature, film and television. Marta Jecu Marta Jecu is currently a researcher at Collège d’Études Mondiales, Paris. Pre- viously, she was enrolled as a researcher at CICANT – The Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies, Universidade Lusófo- na, Lisbon. She is both a freelance curator and a researcher, having been trained in History and Theory of Art (BA), Anthropology (MA) and an interdisciplinary PhD at Freie Universität Berlin. With and at the Iwalewahaus, Marta Jecu de- Exodus Stations that invited contemporary artists to work with museum collections and to veloped the second show of her research and exhibition project - - lications,elaborate wherea critical artists and interpretativeand scientists vieware invited on the historyto work of together. the objects. She Herstayed re insearch Bayreuth projects in November generally 2017.materialise in curated exhibitions and/or edited pub

Islam Shabana Islam Shabana is a multidisciplinary artist and founder of Alchem Studio, a collective focusing on digital art practices as well as interactive design. In collaboration with musicians and sound artists, he creates audiovisual live per- formances and installations, often exploring the relations between realities. At the Iwalewahaus in June 2017, his work was part of the travelling exhibition SPACES – Perception. Reflection. Intervention, and he was also Artist in Residence for the 49° Grenzüberschreitungen Festival – SPACES in June 2017. He engaged with the poetic spaces of the German-Jewish author Hilde Marx that he trans- formed into a virtual reality and a video-sound installation capturing displacement and exile. Furthermore, he presented the audio-visual performance Delta 3. Besides his participation in the festival in Bayreuth, he was involved in the Berlin Art Week, Cairotronica, Cairo Digital Art Week, Osthoora Music & Arts Festival and in exhibitions in Egypt and Germany. He holds a BA in Visual Arts from the American University in Cairo and is currently completing his MA in Digital Media Design at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen with a scholarship from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.

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Nesreen Hussein Nesreen Hussein is a performance artist and academic. She is a graduate of Helwan University Cairo, and holds a PhD from Royal Holloway University of London. Since then, she works as a lecturer in contemporary theatre theory and practice at Middlesex University London. Her research interest spans the role of creativity in the Egyptian revolution to contemporary discourses on performa- tivity and performance. At the Iwalewahaus in June 2017, she was part of the 49° Grenzüberschreitungen Festival – SPACES where she presented her contribution to contemporary, performative and artistic interventions in public space. Her lecturethoughts series also “(Re)Visionsenriched the of festivals’ Spaces” workshop, icon lab session and discussions in cooperation with the Bayreuth

gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche: Eine Untersuchung ikonographischer Dynamiken Academy and the research project “Kairener Graffiti als Spiegel politischer und

und Selbstverortungen junger Künstler” at the University of Cologne. Jihan El Tahri Jihan El Tahri holds a diploma in political science from the American University Cairo. She is the author of Les sept vies de Yasser Arafat andParis-based Israel and filmmaker the Arabs: The 50 Years War - - duced several documentaries, such as “Requiem. She is also for Revolution:a journalist forCuba’s news African agen cies worldwide. Since the 1990s she is active in the field of cinema and has pro El Tahir was invited to the Iwalewahaus’s 49° Grenzüberschreitungen Festival –Odyssey” SPACES toand present “Behind her the trilogy Rainbow”, Egypt’s which Modern won Pharaos an award which at the explores FESPACO. the Jihan political regimes of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anuar el-Sadat and Hosni Mubarak from the early 1950s until 2011 from years of research and numerous interviews unfolding the complexities of history through different perspectives. Besides the screening, she contributed to the academic knowledge exchange at a two-day

in Egypt. workshop and discussion round about the iconographies of spaces and graffiti Raphaël Denis Raphaël Denis is a conceptual artist living and working in Paris and Brussels. A 2006 graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts-Décoratifs, Raphaël Denis invents processes from which he develops series. Art history in the larger sense of an aesthetic and formal history, but also in the sense of the history of - rogation that aims at revealing its complexity and subterfuges. The works of its milieu, with its mechanisms and its agents, becomes the object of an inter simple and radical productions invite to meditate on grey areas and on what is Raphaël Denis provide the viewer with reflection apparatuses Exodusin which Stations often #2, the Iwalewahaus invited him for a two-week artist residency in September 2017,hidden during from view.which Within he worked the context mainly ofwith the personal exhibition photographs project from the estate of Ulli Beier. On this basis, Raphaël Denis developed his installation work Exodus Stations #2.

“Random Memories” for the exhibition

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Yara Mekawei

Yara Mekawei holds a BA in Art Education from Helwan University Cairo and teaches in the Media Art and Design Department of the Modern Sciences and Arts University in Giza. She was invited for an artist residency for the 49° Gren- züberschreitungen Festival – SPACES in June 2017 and the travelling exhibition SPACES – Perception. Reflection. Intervention. At the Iwalewahaus, she contin-

and realised a conceptual two-room-installation. Composed by an architectural constructionued her artistic of engagementan inaccessible following grave andElly aWiesel’s video with statement images “No shot one in isplaces illegal” of remembrance and history in Bayreuth, Berlin and Frankfurt as well as recent - tions and spaces of immigration, war and human rights as well as identity and displacement.conflicted spaces Besides of Aleppo, her very her newlyactive developedparticipation work in questions exhibitions global (recently percep at Dak’Art 2018) and festivals, Yara Mekawei also performs at music events, such as she did at our festival, and is part of the Egyptian Females Experimental Mu- sic Session.

Tatiana Macedo

Tatiana Macedo lives and works in Lisbon. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from the Central St. Martins College of Art & Design (London, 2004), and an MA in Visual Anthropology, FCSH New University of Lisbon (2012). Tatiana works

mainly with photography, film and sound andExodus their Stations expanded #2, Tatianaforms. InMacedo 2015 spentshe won two the weeks first Sonaein August Media 2017 Art in Award, the collections a major visual and archive arts award of the in Portugal.Iwalewa- haus.Within Her the way context to personally of the exhibition approach project and video-map the archive during her

document (the archival images) to the building they are housed in and further to theresidency relation included of this buildingthe extension to its ofneighbouring the circle of structures. signification From from the the video singular and archival material she gathered, Tatiana conceptualised her video installation

Exodus Stations #2. “MIXED FEELINGS – A composition for Chamber Orchestra” for the exhibition George Kyeyune George Kyeyune is Director of Makerere Institute of Heritage Conservation and Restoration (IHCR) at Makerere University. Makerere Institute is part of the tripartite collaboration with Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt and the Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth. George Kyeyune is an artist, lecturer and

doinga core researchresearcher and on working a research on theproject manuscript “African for Art his History upcoming and publicationthe Formation on of a Modern Aesthetic”. In 2017, Kyeyune stayed for a one month in Bayreuth- riod. In this context, he also delivered a lecture on “Trends in Contemporary Art modern and contemporary art in Uganda – the first extensive study of this pe of the research group that included a visit to the ACASA Triennial Conference in Accra,in Uganda Ghana. since 2000” at the Iwalewahaus and participated in the programme

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Atef Botros Al Attar

Atef Botros Al Attar holds a PhD in Comparative Literature, Arabic and Culture Studies from the University of Leipzig. He works as a translator. His academic role of space. As guest of the Iwalewahaus in June 2017, he talked about his re- workcent research focuses onon thethe receptionEgyptian prisonof Kafka as ina spacethe Arabic-speaking of cultural resistance world and within the 49° Grenzüberschreitungen Festival – SPACES. In addition, he was part of the workshop and discussions in the lecture series’ “(Re)Visions of Spaces” at the - cooperation with the Bayreuth Academy and the research project “Kairener atGraffiti the University als Spiegel of politischer Cologne. He und was gesellschaftlicher an assistant professor Umbrüche: at the Eine Arabic Untersu Stud- ieschung Department ikonographischer at the Philipps Dynamiken University und Selbstverortungenof Marburg and a visiting junger scholar Künstler” at the University of Michigan and at Cairo University. He is now based at the Doha Institute as assistant professor. He is also permanent member of the selection committee of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Ndidi Dike Ndidi Dike - ists of her generation with numerous exhibitions held both locally and interna- is a major contemporary Nigerian artist and one of the leading art experience as a sculptor from the Nsukka School where she studied Fine and Appliedtionally. Arts.She is Over one ofthe the decades, few contemporary she has successfully Nigerian artistsworked with across significant diverse materialsfields of art. and This ideas artistic in conventional involvement and hasunconventional evolved into as multidimensional well as experimental and processes.multi-media Her structures core area and of interest meanings and that long-standing have defined inquiry her engagement and engagement with are with slavery, forced migration, displacement, memory gender inequality, remembrance, marginalisation, natural resource extraction industries, post-colonial history and legacies and contemporary politics. Her four-room installation

Iwalewahaus in May-September 2017. “Constellations - Floating Space, Motion and Remembrance” was shown at the

Ozioma Onuzulike Ozioma Onuzulike is a Senior Guest Researcher on the “African Art History and

2017, he looked through the art collections, library and digital archives of the Iwalewahaus,the Formation especially of a Modern those Aesthetic” connected project. with the During work his of Ulli14-day Beier stay in Nigeria. in June Due to his interest in the history of popular art in South-Eastern Nigeria, he focused on materials related to the life and work of Augustine Okoye, Middle Art. He sought to understand how the Onitsha Market Literature intersects with the beginnings of Okoye’s practice in the 1960s and beyond, and how the form and content of Okoye’s paintings shed light on the emergence and style of popular the 1990s and 2000s. Following his research visit, Ozioma has contributed short cartoon-posters that flourished in Onitsha and other parts of Nigeria later in programme of the Iwalewahaus. texts (addressing two works by Augustin Okoye) for the Object of the Month NAB XVII - 2017 59 GUESTS

Randa Aboubakr Randa Aboubakr was a guest for the 49° Grenzüberschreitungen Festival – SPACES in June 2017 where she gave a presentation entitled “Use of visuality and

involvedintervisuality in the in workshop, parodic imitations icon lab session in the andEgyptian discussions blogosphere”. in cooperation Besides with her participation in the festivals’ lecture series “(Re)Visions of Spaces”, she was also politischer und gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche: Eine Untersuchung ikonographis- the Bayreuth Academy and the research project “Kairener Graffiti als Spiegel Cologne. Randa Aboubakr is professor for English and Comparative Literature atcher the Dynamiken University ofund Cairo Selbstverortungen with a main interest junger in visuality, Künstler” media at the and University the virtual of world. In addition to being a recent research fellow at the Humboldt foundation, she is the founder and director of the Forum for the Study of Popular Culture - ing regions and beyond are examined through the dynamic, social and cultural changes(FSPC) at in Cairo public University space. where significant political events in the Arab-speak

Danillo Barata

Danillo Barata Universidade Católica de São Paulo. He is an artist, healer and teacher. His work articulates performance holds a PhD and in image, Communication and has as and its centreSemiotics the fromrelations the Pontifícia between the body, camera, system of art and the world. In November 2016, Danillo Barata visited the Institute of African Studies of the University of Bayreuth. He was one

of Bayreuth. His visit fostered not only the growing partnership between the Instituteof the first of fellowsAfrican of Studies the International and the Universidade Fellowship Federal Programme de Reconcavo of the University de Bahia but also the Agora-network with universities in Brasil, Colombia and Mozam- bique – established by Ute Fendler and Eberhard Rothfuß. In this context, Danillo Barata presented a paper at the international workshop “Encounters: Crossing

School of Social Sciences, Universidad del Valle, Cali (Colombia). perspectives – Crossing disciplinaries”, organised by BIGSAS and the Doctoral Hasifa Mukyala Hasifa Mukyala had a three-month fellowship in January-March 207 at the Iwalewahaus which involved a broad array of activities. She was introduced to the Iwalewahaus collection and trained in conservation, documentation, acqui- sition, loaning of art works, exhibition preparation, database management and - - lectionobject biography and the Makerere writing. SheArt alsoCollection. attended During other her programmes stay, she visited at the Iwalewathe Welt- kulturenhaus and wroteMuseum object in Frankfurt biographies where on artworks she spent from time both at the Iwalewahausmuseum’s offsite col storage of the collection looking at artworks from Uganda. The stay was part -

Germanyof the research and the project UK to work “African on the Art history History of collections and the Formation of modern of African a Modern art. ist Aesthetic” that brought together researchers from Uganda, Nigeria, the USA,

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Assil Diab Sudanese, Doha-based artist Assil Diab, known as Sudalove, was part of the artistic programme at the 49° Grenzüberschreitungen Festival – SPACES. During her short residency at the Iwalewahaus in June 2017 she also presented the re-

and offered a workshop in style writing. Her engagement with the public space incent Bayreuth documentary developed about out her of becomingcooperation a graffiti with Egyptian artist, “From artist PaperAmmar to Abobakr Bricks”, -

and the local graffiti collective 865er crew and resulted in spraying and paint raisesing a wall questions in Bayreuth. of identity, Sudalove’s gender colourwise and furthermore outstanding shows graffiti the empowerment depicting a andwoman the lookingbreaking beyond of conventions the edge ofwhich the hijabis characteristic and labelling of tags her work.in Arabic The script freelance artist and graphic designer holds a BA from the VCU Richmond, Virgina

and has also worked as a creative designer for Aljazeera. Since her participation theat the streets calligraffiti and on projectthe walls of ofFrench-Tunisian Khartoum, Cairo artist and eL Doha. Seed, she intervenes into public spaces. Thus, besides her mixed media works, her graffiti can be found in Spoek Mathambo In 2017, Spoek Mathambo was a guest of the Bayreuth Academy’s Hauntolo-

with two critically-revered solo albums under his belt: Mshini Wam (BBE, 2010) andgy-Working Father Creeper Group. (SubHe is Pop, a South 2012). African Fantasma producer, and Batuk songwriter, and a documentary and filmmaker on South African electronic music (Future Sound of Mzansi) are his collaborative Mshini Wam was released on BBE Records. The album includes an award-winning cover of Joy Division’s ‘She’s Lost Control’. Theprojects. track In received 2010, his the debut Young album Director Award at the 2011 Cannes Lions Interna- tional Festival of Creativity. Meanwhile Mathambo was nominated in the Best African Act category at the 2011 Mobo Awards. In 2012, Mathambo released his second album Father Creeper on Sub Pop, gaining him a second nomination for Best African Act. In Bayreuth, he performed a special DJ set dedicated to the theme of hauntology together with visual specially designed for the workgroup’s event on the 30 November 2017. Chuma Himonga Chuma Himonga held the Chair of Customary Law, Indigenous Values and Hu- man Rights at the University of Cape Town, managed by the National Research Foundation of South Africa under the Department of Science and Technology’s ‘South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI)’ until she retired in December - ied and lectured on, proved invaluable at a research colloquium held by Himonga and2017. her Her host, expertise Ulrike inWanitzek, African customary on 7-8 Nov. law, 2017 a subjectat the University she has extensively of Bayreuth. stud At the colloquium, Himonga gave a presentation on ‘The Conceptualisation of Cus- tomary Law and Its Implications for Research in Africa’ (based on her paper in J. Fenrich et al. (eds), The Future of African Customary Law, Cambridge 2011, 31-57). She also shared her experience of investigating customary law in Africa based on

been published in the book Reform of Customary Marriage, Divorce and Succession ina research South Africa project (by sheChuma headed Himonga at her deparment.and Eleanor The Moore, results Cape of Town this research 2015). have

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African Studies – Multiple and Relational

An international four-day workshop of the IAS

TEXT KOLADE IGBASAN & DORIS LÖHR PHOTOS Maira Naba & Narcisse Wandji

In December 2017, the Institute of African Studies (IAS) held a four-day workshop on the theme “African Stud- - ised by Ute Fendler and Doris Löhr. ies – Multiple and Relational,” organ represented their various institutions,Eminent discussed scholars thefrom challenges five continents they face with the aim of tracing the future of African Studies across the globe. The Director of IAS, Rüdiger Seese- mann, set the ball rolling with words of welcome to the 57 guests, and thanked the University of Bayreuth for its support in making the event possible. His speech was followed by that of the representative of the university administration, Vice President rican Studies in France from the end Asia, Australia and Africa. The need Martin Huber, who pointed out that for more representation of an Afri- the IAS embodies the “beacon of in- and 1960s to the present. She noted can perspective was echoed in all of - withof “Colonial regret theAfricanism” decrease ofin fundingthe 1950s in iterated that African Studies played a France for research in African Stud- Foreign Studies University, China), crucialternationalisation” role in the Humanities in Germany. in He Ger re- ies and called for more funding in the the presentations: Hui Jiang (Beijing many and in the world. He was there- University Mumbai, India), Yongkyu fore very proud to always welcome Hradec Králové, Czech) in his lecture ChangAparajita (Hankuk Biswas University (Jawaharlal of Foreign Nehru guests from all over the world here in “Africandomain. Petrstudies Skalník at Hradec (University Králové, of Studies Seoul, South Korea) and David Bayreuth. Ute Fendler, one of the con- the Czech Republic, and East-Central Doepel (Murdoch University Perth, veners, gave insights on the purpose - Australia). of the workshop, which was principal- es and limitations of studying Africa As far as Africa is concerned, the ly to gather distinguished colleagues fromEurope” a non-colonial highlighted perspective the advantag em- following speakers presented their in African Studies to discuss theoreti- bodied in the statement: “we kind of various institutes of African studies, the challenges facing them and their The opening programme was lack of research about Europe by Af- areas of research: Akosua Adomako roundedcal issues off on bythe a subject.presentation, “Over- ricans.objectify His Africa.” words He were lamented followed on theby Ampofo (University of Ghana Legon, - encouragement for the mutual study Ghana), Carlos Fernandes (Universi- dinator, Franz Kogelmann, and a note of Africa-Europe/Europe-Africa. He dade Eduardo Mondlane Maputo, Mo- ofview thanks of the to IAS, the Bayreuth”Deutsche Forschungs by its Coor- also decried the lack of funding for the zambique), Yahia Abou El Farah (Uni- gemeinschaft (DFG), the University of Institute of African Studies in Prague versité de Rabat, Morocco), Lungisile Bayreuth, the workshop’s organising which is now defunct as a result. Ntsebeza (University of Cape Town, team and all participants by Doris In their talks, Giorgio Banti (Uni- South Africa) and Godwin Murun- Löhr. ga (CODESRIA Dakar, Senegal). Each and Livio Sansone (Salvador de Bahia, called for greater co-operation be- Studies Centres in Europe. Céline Brazil)versity called of Naples for a “L’Orientale”,repositioning Italy)of Af- tween African researchers in order to ThiriotThe first(Université session wasde onBordeaux, African foster knowledge production on the France) asked the pertinent question: in knowledge production in Africa. continent. “Is there a French way for African ricanThe scholars second asday major of the contributors workshop A Panel Discussion entitled - focused on African Studies Centres in “Where is the Africa in African Stud-

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can Studies Centres in the Americas rican studies as a discipline. Angelica discipline. Discussants agreed that and Europe. John H. Hanson (Bloom- Baschiera (SOAS London, Great Brit- aies” holistic revisited view the was object better of study than in thene- ington, Indiana, USA) offered an over- ain) presented SOAS and the decline glecting any aspect of African studies. view of African Studies in America of funds for African studies due to the since 1965 after the Cold War and the - ther compounded by BREXIT. Gainesville,Similar calls USA)were madewho called by Akíntúndé for col- Bart Gewald (Universiteit Leiden, “commercialisationThe IAS 2017 International of education”, Work fur- laborationAkínyemí between (University the Global of Florida, North Netherlands),“corporisation Marta of Education.”Cordiés Jackson Jan- shop ended with a lively roundtable and the Global South, Lungisile Ntse- (Universidad del Oriente, Santiago de discussion on “African Studies in the beza (CAS, South Africa) and Godwin Cuba, Cuba) and Rina Cáceres Gómez Murunga (CODESRIA, Senegal) who (Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, - Costa Rica) among other things talked World – Multiple and relational?” and- African Studies. about the impact of slavery, race and risa final Löhr, session with closing on the words “The wayby Rüdi for- calledDay for3 was a “deproblematisation” reserved for the Afri of- migration in Central America on Af- gerward” Seesemann. chaired by Ute Fendler and Do

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TGCL Study Trip to Nairobi

The annual study trip of the Tanzanian-German Centre for Eastern African Legal Studies (TGCL), a cooperation project of the Universities of Bayreuth and Dar es Salaam, led us to Nairobi this year.

ate where the Kenyan constitutional framework and the functionality of the bicameral parliamentary system was explained to us in detail. This was followed by an interactive session focusing on the presentation and the wider implications of East African integration from the perspective of the Kenyan legislature. Following this, we headed to the top of Kenyatta Interna- tional Conference Center (KICC) for a panoramic view of the city of Nairobi. During a courtesy visit to the German Embassy in Nairobi, we had a very fruitful discussion with the Head of Culture and Education, Uwe Köppel, and his team. We used this rare op- The study trip participants, in front of Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) in portunity to thank the German Fed- Nairobi, after having enjoyed the view from the roof-top. opportunity to conduct further stud- ieseral through Foreign TGCL Office scholarships. for giving us the TEXT Louis A. Gitinywa briefed us on the pre-circulated time- When we visited the Nairobi Ani- PHOTO TGCL table, with an emphasis on updates mal Orphanage of the Kenya Wildlife and amendments. Service, located in Nairobi National In the afternoon, we had the pleas- Park on Lang’ata Road, our guide, The main motivation for this study ure of visiting the Nairobi National Kevin Omondi, explained to us the trip from 24 to 28 April 2017 was for Museum, particularly the exhibition mission and role of the orphanage, us to attain a clear and practical per- called “FAVT: Future Africa Visions which is essentially to rescue animals spective to complement our theoreti- from poachers or smugglers, treat cal understanding of regional inte- partnership with the Bayreuth Acad- them, and either reintroduce them gration. In particular, our aim was to emyin Time” of Advanced which African was organised Studies, the in into the wild, or adopt them for life learn from different actors about the Iwalewahaus Bayreuth and the Goe- where their potential for survival in challenges and achievements of the the Institute of Kenya, with a focus on the wilderness is very low. The ani- regional integration process. contemporary and abstract art. The mals are also used for educational Early in the morning of 24 April purposes. He gave us a lecture about - effort between academics and artists onexhibited the history art was of the the German result of colonial a joint about the challenges they face in their from2017, Juliuswe started Nyerere our International journey to Nairo Air- period in East Africa and other Ger- operations.the big five We and were talked able extensivelyto see the portbi. We to boarded Jomo Kenyatta a Kenya AirwaysInternational flight man colonies in Africa, contrasted variety of wildlife which live in the Airport where we were transported with artistic impressions of Africa’s orphanage. by coach to Mvuli Hotel, located on perceived future. We were then host- At the premises of the Catholic Lang’ata Road in West Nairobi. The ed by TGCL at a welcome dinner in the Church which houses the Archdiocese hotel is well built and located in a safe warm environment of the museum of Nairobi, we were hosted to lunch and secure area of the city. We were café. by Sister Teresiah Muthoni, a TGCL immediately ushered to the confer- We had the honour of visiting the Alumna, who also took us on a brief ence room where Carolin Herzog Kenya National Assembly and the Sen-

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and presented us to some of her col- search, work hard and focus on what- leagues. ever we set our minds on. integration for Kenya, with a focus on After this visit, we made our way to After this meeting, we went for an benefits and challenges of regional our next appointment at the State De- afternoon lecture at the Madison In- African Common Market in terms of partment of East African Community surance building where the German investment,how Kenya canlabour, benefit development from the Eastand Integration in the Co-operative Bank Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is economic growth. A question and building on Haile Selassie Avenue. Ba- located. We received a warm welcome answer session followed which was rack Ndengwa and M. Susan Lutta, re- from Helmut Blumbach and Margaret moderated by DAAD staff member

we had a networking session with someAnja Bengelstorff.DAAD Alumni After and thisscholarship session, holders. Later that evening, we were pleased to meet and interact with some of the TGCL Alumni who live and work in Kenya at a dinner hosted by the TGCL at the Sarova Stanley Hotel in Nairobi’s central business district. The dinner provided a good setting for current students and alumni to network and socialise. The last day of our study trip provided the perfect climax as we got the opportunity to visit the Su- preme Court of Kenya and interact

From left to right: Johannes Döveling, Susan Lutta and Barack Ndengwa at Supreme Court – His Lordship Hon. the State Department of EAC Integration. Justicewith a highlyIsaac Lenaola acclaimed – who judge has of also the spectively the Deputy Principal Secre- tary and State Counsel in the Ministry, warmly and cordially welcomed us. We interacted on different aspects of East African integration, particularly from the Kenyan perspective, including the Standard Gauge Railway, tour- ism, community organs and institutions, as well as legal aspects in the domestic setting. At Kenyatta University Parklands Campus, we were received by Emily Osiemo, who is a TGCL Alumna and a lecturer at the university, and paid a courtesy visit to Nzuki Mwinzi, the Dean of the School of Law. We had the opportunity to talk with the Dean and the academic staff on diverse aspects The TGCL students in the Kenyan Parliament of academic life, including a future partnership between our two institutions. We also had the chance to inter- Kirai, the Director and Deputy Direc- served for close to seven years as a served as a Professor at the University - ofact Dar with es TomaszSalaam. Milej He encouraged who previously us to East Africa. We were given a presen- tice (EACJ). His Lordship shared with always aim for excellence in our re- tationtor of theby Johannes DAAD Regional Döveling Office on the for usjudge his of experience the East African during Court his tenureof Jus

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Uwe Koppel (back, first from right) welcoming the TGCL students at the German Embassy in Nairobi, together with their lecturers and the TGCL management team.

TGCL students (front, from left to right), Gloria Kembabazi, Deborah Fiona Kob- usingye, Idd Ramadhani Mandi and (back, from left to right) Emmanuel Sebijjo, ofas judgedifferent at theissues, EACJ including and during good his Amon Maranga Nyambane, Cyril Yavatsa Kubai in the Supreme Court library. governance,career as a judge human in Kenyarights, in the respect rule of law, and democracy. He advised us

of legal issues based on the context, particularlyon the significance the unique of a broad political analysis and - cial decision making. socialAfter aspects this meetingof each country, we proceeded in judi to Jomo Kenyatta University of Agri- culture and Technology, Karen Cam- pus, for a meeting with the Dean and the staff of the Faculty of Law, including TGCL Alumnus Omondi Robert Owino. We talked about the peculiar- ity of the different legal regimes of the EAC Partner States, including the civil and common law systems, the struc-

courts, the proceedings in criminal andture civil and cases, jurisdiction the Bar of Associations, the different selves the passion, commitment and I would like to thank Carolin Herzog level of dedication of all the different and Johannes Döveling who worked among others. stakeholders working to achieve the tirelessly to ensure the success of this andThis qualification trip was a routes good opportunity for lawyers, fruits of regional integration. This tour, and the members of the Universi- to learn more from the actors and to trip gave me the optimistic impres- ty of Dar es Salaam who accompanied see what really happens on the ground sion that despite the challenges faced us during the study trip – Evaristo Longopa and Baraka Kanyabuhinya – East African regional integration. In this process will no doubt be success- for their professional guidance and in- addition,in relation we to were this able exciting to see project for our of- ful.on the On journey behalf toof regionalmy fellow integration, students, tellectual stimulation during the trip.

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Mahusiano! Languages and literatures in interface

30th Swahili Colloquium

TEXT NIKITTA DEDE ADJIRAKOR worlds is disseminated, appropri- existence such as Said Khamis and PHOTO DUNCAN TARRANT ated and reinterpreted. Some topics Gabriele Sommer (University of Bay- discussed include the construction reuth). Two of the invited conference of identities through popular culture, guests, Nash Mc (a hip-hop artist) and The 30th anniversary of the Annual orality and writing in Swahili poetry, Idd Mwimbe (a poet) from Tanzania, Swahili Colloquium at the Univer- provided entertainment for the con- sity of Bayreuth was held on 26-28 on and in Swahili-speaking worlds and ference participants during the recep- May 2017 with about a hundred par- the influence and use of social media tion. In partnership with BIGSAS, the ticipants. Funded by the Deutsche second language teaching of Swahili. renowned writer, poet and philoso- Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and challengesThe conference and resources also hosted for first a num and- pher, Euphrase Kezilahabi, who was organised by Clarissa Vierke, the col- ber of extra events, such as a reading a participant at the conference, gave loquium took on the theme “Mahu- from the novel Ua la Faraja by the a presentation on the interconnect- siano! Languages and literatures in Tanzanian writer, William Mkufya, as edness of Swahili literature and Afri- well as its German translation Blume can philosophy within the framework for a more integrated conception of des Trostes by the German translator, linguisticinterface”. and This literary conference plurality aspired by en- Barbara Schmid-Heidendein. There There was also a panel discussion be- gaging with the interconnectedness was also a series of book launches and of the “BIGSAS Forum for Thought”. of Swahili and non-Swahili linguistic memorials for late Swahili scholars. some Swahili scholars in which they and literary worlds. It was attended by The 30th anniversary in itself was cel- tween junior fellows of BIGSAS and senior scholars, PhD and MA students ebrated with a reception, which fea- between language and knowledge from over 23 countries, among them tured addresses from representatives productionreflected onfrom the various interrelationship disciplines Tanzania, Kenya, DR Congo, Uganda, of the University of Bayreuth and its such as anthropology, literature and Norway, Austria, USA, Italy, France, partner universities, including the translation studies in and on Africa. South Africa and Poland. Several con- Shanghai International Studies Uni- The publishing house Rüdiger Köppe tributions from disciplines such as lin- versity. The conception of the Swahili was represented with bookstalls. guistics, history, literary studies, an- Colloquium and its sustenance was The Swahili Department of Deutsche thropology and Islamic studies, looked Welle Radio and a representative of at the entangled ways through which Swahili Colloquium, Gudrun Miehe, the Nation Media Group, Nairobi re- knowledge with and within Swahili andreflected key uponpersons by thein its founder continuous of the ported directly from the conference.

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A Research Trip to Cape Town, South Africa

TEXT MAIKE SELKE PHOTO DINA FALTEN

Research trips have been an important element at the Faculty of Cul- tural Studies, especially for the MA programme Culture and Society of Af- rica and Culture and Society, for many years. Since 2017, with the estab- lishment of the new MA programme Development Studies, selected stu-

method designed to equip students dents have benefit from this teaching

with field work experience, especially- ingfinding them access into valid to the academic field, collecting results. Underdata, analysingthe supervision findings of experienced and turn professors, students learn to face and overcome the obstacles of a research process. between non-governmental organisa- demic and personal results as highly For most of the eight participants, tions and social movements. Oumai- satisfactory. The data collected and the research trip in the 2017 summer ma Laaraki’s research also focuses on the challenges encountered were protest but rather in Morocco where Daniel (Development Sociology) took 2017-2018 winter semester in the Fac- placeterm in under Cape the Town, supervision South Africa. of Antje The Amazigh uprisings in the northern ultythe subjectof Cultural of two Studies. courses The offered research in overall research topic was “Social Morocco.she did her Two fieldwork of the researchresearch on trips the took place at other geographical loca- will be the basis for master theses students examined the #FeesMustFall tions. Rebekka Krauss conducted re- inconducted the summer during term these of 2018 fieldtrips which studentMovements”. movement. Three ofClaudia the Bayreuth Depka search on informal learning process- will be accompanied by two further examined the use of music and songs es and child labour in Bolivia while seminars. Some will be presented during the protests at George Uni- Korbinian Baumer spent some weeks at the upcoming Anthropology Re- versity. Michael Steffen explored the in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania doing search Colloquium in June 2018 at the impact of protest photography while Iwalewahaus Bayreuth. The research Dina Falten analysed the connection drug addiction. trip was partly sponsored by the Uni- fieldworkAll students with peopledescribed dealing their withaca- versitätsverein Bayreuth e.V. Two other students picked up top- icsbetween related online to protest: and offline Katarina activism. Gor-

poverty within the homeless commu- For further questions contact Antje Daniel (antje.daniel@uni-bayreuth) or nityzynski and investigated its relation the to protestfield of whitewhile Maike Selke ([email protected]). Maike Selke studied the relationship

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BIGSAS FC! Another season of outreach through football

A little bit of play after work!

TEXT LIONEL SANGO PHOTO BIGSAS

The 2017 football season in Bayreuth was marked by spectacular competi- part of the Wilge Liga season, the Ak- waabative fixtures. tournament As always, in Nuremberg BIGSAS wasand many spontaneous friendly matches organised with other teams in Bay- reuth and beyond. Taking part once again in the 4th Liga B of the Wilge Liga, with stiff competition from nine solid opponents, BIGSAS FC went into every game with great courage and determination. Although not winning every game, catching fun and trying to build confidence has alwaysth on the been league our keyta- objective. At the end of the season, twoBIGSAS draws. finished However, 8 a total of 40 goalsble with ranked three us wins,as the five 3rd lossesteam with and the highest number of goals. Such zeal for goals demonstrates the killer in- stincts we possess. We would like to give a huge thank you to all the players and to each and every volunteer for helping BIGSAS and to have a little fun after work in 2017.FC to achievePlaying itstogether outreach with objectives fellow students, refugees, colleagues and friends, shows the role football plays as a platform for integration and the open door policy of BIGSAS. It has been a pleasure and we hope to keep such warm team spirit and determination next year with another show of strength. Hope to see you all back again next season!

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Future perspectives of economic communities in Africa

A new project at the TGCL TEXT JOHANNES DÖVELING Africa, can only edge forward step by step since there are PHOTO TGCL lawyers, economists and political scientists from Africa andno proven Europe success will work formulae. closely In together, this new in research order to project, gain a better understanding of how cross-border cooperation German Centre for Eastern African Legal Studies (TGCL) works. The results of the research will throw light on how willA new investigate interdisciplinary how economic research and project social at development the Tanzanian- in social and economic progress in Africa can be encouraged Africa can be promoted by cross-border cooperation and and sustained by means of regional integration.

regional integration. The German Federal Ministry of Eco- From academic research to practical nomic Cooperation and Development has approved a grant recommendations for policy-makers

Danielof €500,000 Shayo to (University fund the project of Dar esfrom Salaam 2017-2018. School ofJohannes Law) is Common agreements on regional cooperation on the Af- Döveling (University of Bayreuth) leads the project, and- rican continent, and corresponding public declarations tas as assistant coordinator in Dar es Salaam and Sabine of intention, have been inadequately implemented in the the project coordinator. They are supported by Petro Pro member states. Critics of such regional organisations say total, 30 researchers from all over Africa and beyond are conductingGeisenberger, research who is tothe identify project driving assistant forces in Bayreuth. of regional In national governments have rarely been put into practice. integration in Africa. that the plans for joint decision-making agreed on by the While in Europe the structures and aims of the EU are and legal norms of African economic communities to see being examined critically, in Africa new forms of coopera- whetherThe TGCL they research unintentionally project will promote examine this the discrepancy, institutional or tion between neighbouring countries are being developed. contain incentives for more intensive cooperation. On the An outstanding example of regional integration is the East basis of their results, the researchers will be able to make African Community (EAC) where there is already a com- concrete practical recommendations for policy-makers mon market and the long-term goals are a monetary union and legislators in African countries. The research results and the founding of a federal state. However, it is unclear - how it will be possible to achieve such far-reaching integra- ers who increasingly cooperate with African regional or- tion. Those political leaders who support the development ganisations.will also be of benefit to international development work of transnational structures in the EAC, or in other parts of

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and its goals. Together with introductory overviews from the legal, political sciences and economic perspectives, participants were able to develop a common understanding on the topic. Furthermore, the researchers presented -

presentationsoutlines of their were individual discussed subprojects in detail, andincluding the presenters their re receivedsearch questions valuable andcomments the field which research they will design. be able All to these implement in the course of their further research activities.

unique opportunity of sharing and discussing research proposalsOverall, the at firsta quite research early stage. workshop provided a great and

Outlook: Field Research and Second Research Workshop The First Research Workshop

- shop in Dar es Salaam in October 2017. At this event, the Following the first research workshop, the field research The team of researchers met for the first Research Work startedactivities travelling started. to Logistically destinations supported all over Africa by the in project order Legal and Constitutional Affairs of the United Republic of tooffices collect in research Bayreuth data and especially Dar es Salaam, through researchers interviews have and Tanzania,research project Palamagamba was officially Kabudi. launched The Vice by Chancellor the Minister of thefor discussions with relevant actors and observers of the dif- University of Dar es Salaam, Rwekaza Mukandala and the Dean of the University of Dar es Salaam School of Law, Ha- experiences have been very positive so far. Together with ferent African integration processes. The field research host institution. In addition, words of welcome were given looking forward to the second research workshop, taking mudi Majamba, welcomed the participants on behalf of the placethe researchers, in Dar es Salaam the leadership in early teamJune 2018.of the This project event is thuswill once again facilitate exchange on the individual research by research project leader Johannes Döveling as well as by- - shipresearch team project presented coordinator an overview Daniel on Shayo. the research agenda sions are drawn and published. At the beginning of the workshop, the project leader subprojects, now at a different stage, before final conclu

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Fixed policy competence, no fixed incentives

Everyday life of councillors in Ghanaian municipalities

TEXT & PHOTO MATTHEW SABBI

Local democracy and decentralisation programmes are promoted to deal with corruption and build responsive local institutions that help reduce poverty. However, the local context remains missing in these debates. In particular, the crucial role of municipal councillors is acknowledged but their condition of work is rarely mentioned. Extant studies overly focus on other political actors such as par- liamentarians and strategies that link them to local voters. - ology) funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation since 2017 seeksThe research to overcome project this of lacuna. Matthew By Sabbi focusing (Development on the everyday Soci life of councillors beyond their formal duties, the research analyses councillors’ logic of action and their motivation - pacities and incentive systems mediate the daily activities for running for office. First, it examines how economic ca certain conditions. Serving on local boards for public in- obviousof councillors. challenges, Second, are the explored. specific Hidden motivations inducements that excite that stitutions, most councillors enhance their political capital councillors’ interest to run for municipal office, in spite of needed for future political advancement. Again, municipal facilities such as markets and toilets are usually managed compensateThe research for the linkslack ofthe fixed World incentives Polity approachfor councillors with by elite councillors and those well-connected to the mu- practicalto adjust togovernance demands ofperspectives their office areand probed. contributes to debates on the role of development actors inside local bu- councillors, societal pressure for accountability for such reaucracies in Africa. The approach helps articulate how facilitiesnicipal executive. seems almost Expectedly absent. without fixed incentives for councillors brave the weak state bureaucracy to enact local public authority. The study explains how local democracy lack access to municipal facilities that enhance their politi- ideas diffuse into local contexts where they are often de- cal andBut economic councillors capital. differ On significantly. the contrary, Rural rural councillors coupled from everyday functions. Local actors would au- - tonomously enact compromises that at once complement stantly commit personal resources (e.g. money and farm and divert explicit norms. The practice is well illustrated produce)may find into their strategies status even of ‘getting more costly. the attention’ They must of pow con- by the everyday life of councillors in Ghana, where decen- erful municipal executives (see photo). The tactics might potentially substitute local representative democracy for As initial insight, the position of a local councillor in the pursuit of individual goals. One ambivalence is the spe- tralisation projects are active. - - wards, whether to themselves or towards society. Ordinar- Ghana goes beyond mere political representation. But fixed- ily,cific we entity could to get which some councillors’ clues from motivationthe political is programmes oriented to remuneration is not a key incentive for this office. In the ab offered by councillors. However, councillors in Ghana do tosence deliver of fixed their incentives, duties on acouncillors daily basis. make Unlike several usual consid expla- - nations,erations andturnover practical among sacrifices councillors in order is tonot stay based motivated per se matic ideology is unsurprisingly missing. Thus, all council- lorsnot runseem for to office pursue based a ‘development’ on political parties agenda. so Incumbentsa program spent on municipal councils. In fact, most councillors retire and aspirants often offer the same political programme, onlyon performance, after losing re-electionage, lack of contests.fixed remuneration, Some ex-councillors and time ‘better service delivery’ than their competitors. Not only does this situation restrict the space for critique of their councillors have the ability to consolidate their political - capitalstill have and ambitions even convert to run that again into economic for office. capital Intriguingly, under cator of councillors’ motivation. political projects, but also makes the projects a weak indi 72 NAB XVII - 2017 PROJECTS

African Art History and the Formation of a Modern Aesthetic

Update on the project on African Modernism at the Iwalewahaus

TEXT KATRIN PETERS-KLAPHAKE PHOTO Nadine Siegert

African Art History and the Formation of a Modern Aesthetic had another success- Inful 2017, year researchersof collaborative on the research. project Since 2016, they have engaged with three collections of African modernism: the Makerere Art Gallery / IHCR, Makerere University in Kampala, the Weltkulturenmuseum in Frankfurt a.M. and the Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth. The different research topics are very diverse and span from an in-depth engagement with singular artworks to broader questions about collecting art for public collections. The team is composed of experienced and young professionals in art his- kąri ’ ̂ kacha ̈ seid’ou, George Kyeyune, Katrin Peters-Klaphake, Lena tory, visual studies, curatorial studies, museology, archival Naumann, Siegrun Salmanian, George Ampratwum at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, August 2017 studies and anthropology as well as artists. Hailing from Germany, Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan, Great Britain and - urations of African modernism and modernity in a trans- disciplinarythe US, they cameand interdisciplinarytogether to examine frame, notions starting and config from the conference, the researchers met in Kumasi for an in- three art collections. Marked by the collectors Ulli Beier historic event held for the first time on African soil. Before and Jochen Schneider, the main focus of the collections at George Ampratwum, and Kwaku Boafo Kissiedu from the the Iwalewahaus and the Weltkulturen Museum is on art- Facultyternal workshop of Art at andKwame a meeting Nkrumah with University kąri ̂›kacha of ̈Science Seid’ou, works from Nigeria and Uganda respectively. Schneider and Technology Kumasi. The lecturers have successfully acquired the bigger part of his collection directly from the introduced a very innovative approach to teaching at the Makerere art school and gallery environment. Beier start- school. An impressive proof of the artistic and curatorial ed to collect modern Nigerian art while living in Nigeria in the 1960s. His collection forms the core of today’s Iwalewa- - haus Collection. The individual (hi)stories and contents of encepractices and Technologyof faculty and in studentsAccra. was presented in the final year exhibition “Orderly/Disorderly” at the Museum of Sci- in order to understand collectors’ motivations and strat- - egiesthe three but also collections the role are of institutions suitable as objectsin the formation of research of wahausThe ongoinghas had lectureinspiring series lectures “African by renowned Modernisms” experts or the modern canon. In addition, their complex connection likeganised Salah by Hassan the BIGSAS (Cornell workgroup University, “Aesthetics” Ithaca), atAtta the Kwami Iwale has to be part of the revisiting. Here, the focus lies also on (Kumasi, Ghana), Smooth Nwezi-Ugochukwu (Cleveland the artworks themselves and the collections understood as Museum, Ohio), Elsbeth Court (SOAS London) and Mu- structures and networks. wonge Kyazze Mathias (Uganda). Upcoming lectures in this The research processes were accompanied by an ex- programme include a presentation by John Peffer (Rama- tended programme of internal and public workshops like po College, New Jersey) on “When a photograph is family: the public symposium “(Hi)Stories of Exhibition Making /

Kampala Art Biennale 2016 (see report in NAB XVI 2016, RaphaelThoughts Chikukwa on audience (National and image Gallery in Africa”; of Zimbabwe); the overview Peter p.1960-1990” 62) for example. at the National Also in 2017, Museum the researchersin Kampala duringpresented the Probst“Mapping (Tufts the ZimbabweanUniversity, Massachusetts) Modern Art Development” speaking about by their work at national and international conferences. Sev- “Acknowledging the contemporary: African Art Studies in eral members of the research team participated in the 17th - Triennal Symposium on African Art in Accra, Ghana. This - 2017 edition of the prestigious ACASA conference was a ardthe shortGray (SOAS,1960s” London).and reflections Another on highlight “The eye isof the the exhibicroco- dile: A new look at Malangatana Valente Ngwenya” by Rich

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of a Modern Aesthetic. The public symposium will give an Smooth Nwezi-Ugochukwu that is currently on display at insight into the variety of research activities and discuss thetion Iwalewahaus. “Feedback – Art,The Africaresearch and will the eventually Eighties” curatedbe dissem by- inated in a number of publications in books and peer-re- - versitypossible of future Bayreuth themes and and sponsored fields of within interest. the programme Mining Collections - The research project is hosted by the Iwalewahaus, Uni Someviewed configurations journals as well of African as doctoral Modernisms dissertations. in institutional In June VolkswagenStiftung. The 2017 conference was generously collections2018, a final will public bring symposium together the titled international research- “Forschung in Museen” (Research in Museums) by the African Art History and the Formation financed by BIGSAS and the Institute of African Studies. ers of the project

Women on Aeroplanes

TEXT Women on Aeroplanes curatorial team

Looking closely at the long history of transatlantic networks and the struggles for liberation pre-dating the independence of African countries, women were always important and played all kinds of roles. But their stories are hardly told and their faces remain widely unseen. Their various contributions and practices, politically and artisti- cally, ask to be acknowledged and at the same time their stories claim new parameters and premises. To recall the notion of independence today can only mean to address the gap between formal independence and a process of decolonisation that was simultaneously national and intranation- al, transnational and international and remains, in many ways, incomplete. #1. FILTER Women on Aeroplanes aims to get an idea of a more comprehensive notion of indepen- denceThe that research-based allows us to project see and understand a women-in- Women on Aeroplanes took place at ifa- formed view on a shattered presence of complicated de- Galerie Berlin on 30 November to 3 December 2017. Titled pendencies. In this regard, unorthodox perspectives and a FILTER,The first it iteration comprised of a series of lectures dedicated to play focus on entangled working and gender relations, need to preliminary work for the making of tools (a grammar) to independence with the heroines of liberation. To make her speakwith different to her representation critical, theoretical and history and opticalmaking filters from a as dif a- contributionbe raised. These in history exceed and a project the moments of replacing of her the disappear heroes of- ance visible, also asks for a different valorisation of her women out of a representation of history. Editors, artists, work and a picture that frames relations and communities archivalferent imagery, researchers and thus and to producers, filter the cinematic historians presence and cura of- - tors discussed processes in decision-making and criteria that lead to the next cut, the duration of a take, its rhythm. rather than individuals. The project adopts different for- Participants: Fatoumata Diabaté (Montpellier) artist, ricamats and of exhibition,Europe with workshop, institutional film andprogramming, independent lecture part- Ndidi Dike (Lagos) artist and cultural activist, Jihan El ners.series It and will residencies touch down envisioned in ifa-Galerie for five (Berlin), iterations Centre in Affor - Contemporary Art (Lagos), the Iwalewahaus (Bayreuth), don) artist and writer, Shahira Issa (Berlin) artist and edi- The Showroom (London) and Museum of Modern Art tor,Tahri Brigitta (Paris) Kuster filmmaker (Berlin) and artist writer, and Kodwo theoretician, Eshun (LonUche (Warsaw). Okpa-Iroha (Lagos) artist, Iheanyichukwu Onwuegbucha (Lagos) researcher, Emily Pethick (London) curator and

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director of The Showroom, Lisl Ponger (Vienna) artist, - Nadine Siegert (Bayreuth) curator and researcher, Cara lichini (Grahamstown) researcher, Maryam Kazeem (La- Snyman (Johannesburg) arts and culture manager, Emma writer, Rahima Gambo (Abuja) artist and writer, Gladys Ka- Wolukau-Wanambwa (London) artist and curator. er, Lungiswa Gqunta (Johannesburg) artist, Fabiana Lopes (Newgos) researcher York) researcher, and writer, Seloua Jihan Luste El-Tahri Boulbina (Paris) (Paris) filmmak philosopher, Temitayo Ogunbiyi (Lagos) artist, Wura-Natasha #2. SEARCH RESEARCH and researcher. This iteration is co-ordinated by Bisi Silva, DirectorOgunji (Lagos) CCA, Lagos artist, and Nadine Iheanyi Siegert Onwuegbucha, (Bayreuth) Associate curator The second edition of Women on Aeroplanes at CCA Lagos, Curator, CCA, Lagos 23-26 May 2018, entitled SEARCH RESEARCH: Looking for Colette Omogbai will comprise of a series of lectures dedicated to unfolding and mobilising different ways of theo- #3. OVERVIEW retical and artistic, academic and non-academic strategies of investigation and thus to centre the presence of wom- Between more iterations, Women on Aeroplanes will open en out of their non-representation in the history writing a relais at the Iwalewahaus Bayreuth 16 June to 10 Sep- process. The art and life of the pioneering Modern Nige- tember 2018, a resonating cavity in which moments of the

Ekong, Colette Omogbai, Theresa Luck-Akinwale and Ladi to the archive and the politics of collecting. A selection of Kwali,rian woman remain artists unknown such asor Claraincomplete, Etso Ugbodaga-Ngu, and unpublished Afi live-recordingsproject will be from touching previous base lectures with questions and discussions addressed in even though their work is crucial for the understanding of Berlin and Lagos will be audible, and a choice of materials modernist art in Nigeria. Not only are they absent in the displayed (books, cards, posters, Inflight Magazines etc.) to wider narrative around their contemporaries such as Ben show en miniature what already happened in the course of

Bruce Onobrakpeya, this invisibility is being repeated in future, that is about: Filtering and editing methods (ifa- theEnwonwu, lineage Uche and referenceOkeke, J.D. to Okhai today’s Ojeikere, art practice Demas and Nwoko, his- Galerie,the project Berlin), and whatSearch is andhopefully research going methods to happen (CCA, in theLa- tories. gos), Lungiswa Gqunta and her residency (Gasworks, Lon- How do we address the void? How do we look for them? don), Exhibitions at The Showroom (London) and Museum What new art historical methodologies can be developed in for Modern Art (Warsaw). Women on Aeroplanes them what could change in the narrative? Artists and art Busch, Marie-Hélène Gutberlet and Magda Lipska and historians,a context where archival story researchers is determined and bywriters, absence? philosophers In finding co-produced by the Iwalewahaus. is a project It is funded curated by bythe Annett TURN and curators, will speak about the processes of research in Fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, and made in collaboration with Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, ‘detective’ work. ifa-Galerie Berlin, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, The theirParticipants: specific locale Garnette and the Cadogan transnational (New York/Cambridge) outreach of their Showroom, London.

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Personalia

Dr Rose Nyakio Kimani wins the DAAD Award 2017

BIGSAS Alumna, then Junior Fellow, Rose Nyakio Kimani received the DAAD Prize for Outstanding Achieve- ments of a Foreign Student studying at the University of Bayreuth in Novem- ber 2017. She was awarded during the President’s Dinner. Kimani holds a bachelor’s degree in Communication and Media Technology and a master’s degree in Communication Studies. Since 2013, she had been a Junior Fel- low at BIGSAS and defended her thesis

was on ‘Research on Players, Partici- pationin January and 2018.Processes Her doctoralin Kenyan project Com- munity Radio’. Kimani received the From left to right: Thomas Scheibel, Vice Presi- award in recognition of her previous dent for International Affairs and Equal Op- research achievements, her social commitment and intercultural skills. In addi- portunities of the University of Bayreuth, Rose Nyakio Kimani, and Stefan Leible, President of the University of Bayreuth. (Photo: Peter Kolb) elected as Junior Fellows’ Representative at BIGSAS and she was a co-founder of thetion Model to her African scientific Union knowledge, Bayreuth she e.V. showed great social commitment. She was

An award for Dr. Antonia Valerie Hänsch for the Best Dissertation in Cultural Anthropology

BIGSAS Alumna Dr. Valerie Hänsch was awarded for the best dissertation in the area of Cultural Anthropology at a German university by the Frobenius-Insti- tute for Cultural Anthropology Studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt. She received the award, which included prize money of €3.000, during a ceremony at the Frankfurter Buchmesse (Frankfurt Book Fair). Dr. Hänsch holds a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich and did her master’s degree at the University of Bayreuth with a special focus on visual Anthropology, Anthropology of Islam and Anthropology of the senses. - ished her doctoral studies with the excellent grade of summa cum laude. She didShe researchhad been on a doctoraldam construction researcher in atSudan BIGSAS and fromfocused 2008 on untilsocial 2016 and culturaland fin From left to right: Mamadou Diawara (Deputy Director of the Frobenius Institute), Valerie Sudan, Dr Hänsch examined how the ethnic group of the Manasir experienced a Hänsch, Roland Hardenberg (Director of the impacts. During a 14-months’ field research and subsequent research stays in Frobenius Institute), and Kurt Beck (University radical and violent upheaval of their usual living conditions. After her defence, of Bayreuth), supervisor of the award-winning she worked as a research associate at the Chair of Social Anthropology at the dissertation. (Photo: Antje Daniel.) University of Bayreuth until the end of 2017.

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Michael Stasik receives the Preis der Stadt Bayreuth

BIGSAS Alumnus Michael Stasik received the Preis der Stadt Bayreuth (the Prize of the City of Bayreuth), which included prize money of €500, during the President´s Dinner in November 2017. The city honoured him for his dissertation with the title ‘Station Ventures: Road Transport, Roadside Economies and Urban Hustle in Ghana’ in which he explored one of the largest and busiest bus stations in West Africa. The work was evaluated with the excellent grade of summa cum laude. Stasik had been a doctoral researcher at BIGSAS from 2012 until 2017. Previous to that, he studied Philosophy, History and African studies in Berlin, Cracow and Leiden. In 2010, he received his master’s degree in African Studies. Since September 2017, Stasik is working as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in francophone West African migrants in urban Ghana. Göttingen, Germany. His current research project focuses on the lifeworlds of Michael Stasik with the mayor of Bayreuth, Brigitte Merk-Erbe (Photo: Peter Kolb)

Kitso Lynn Lelliott wins the Iwalewa Art Award

On 10 November 2017, the Univer- sity of Bayreuth granted the Iwalewa Art Award for the second time. The award is dedicated to young, aspiring artists for their outstanding artistic achievements. This year, the Johan- nesburg-based artist Kitso Lynn Lel- liott was selected for the award for Alzire of Bayreuth. The video installation Alzire of Bayreuth herwas project,created in 2015 as a part of the exhibition FAVT: Future Africa Visions in Time. In her work, Kitso Lynn Lel- liott deals with the transatlantic slave trade and brings back to mind forgotten persons and stories. Research

Wilhelmine in Bayreuth, where the From left to right: Ulf Vierke, Kitso Lynn Lel- Surinam-born woman called Alzire workedon inthis the subject 18th century. led her Theto the award court cer of- liott and Stefan Leible (Photo: Sabine Linn) emony was connected with an artist-in-residence at the Iwalewahaus and an

The new exhibition titled Abénaa / Alzire / Dandara / Tsholofelo was curated by Emilieexhibition Köhler sponsored together by with the International the artists and Office was and shown the University in the Iwalewahaus of Bayreuth. in November 2017. In 2019, a book on Kitso Lynn Lelliots works will be published by iwalewabooks.

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¢ Abou Moumouni, Issifou. 2017. ¢ Diallo, Brahima A. 2017. Interpret- Coproduction de la sécurité publique ing maternal death: When underlying dans le Nord-Bénin: Le rôle des chas- causes are non-medical despite med- seurs dans la lutte contre les vols à ical indications. Biomedical Journal of main armée. Anthropologie et Dévelop- Scientific & Technical Research 1 (5): pement 45: 91-112. 1-2.

¢ Abou Moumouni, Issifou. 2017. ¢ Diallo, Brahima A. 2017. Partici- L’offre informelle de la sécurité pu- pation communautaire et accès aux blique au Bénin: L’instrumentalisation soins obstétricaux d’urgence au Mali: des groupes d’autodéfense par l’Etat. Déviance et Société 41 (1): 91-119. référence – Évacuation dans la com- muneDéfis derurale financement de Ouenkoro du système (région de ¢ Adera, Kairedin Tezera. 2017. Mopti - Mali). In: Hachimi, Sanni Yaya The unexplored assets: Religious ap- (ed.), Risquer la Mort pour Donner la proach for peace making among the Vie : Politiques et Programmes de Santé Siltie people in Southern Ethiopia. Infantile en Afrique. Laval: Presse de Journal for the Study of the Religions l’Université, 171-189. of Africa and its Diaspora (AASR) 3 (1): 139-154. ¢ Dittmann, Julia. 2017. Zur notwen- digen Stärkung einer rassismussensi- ¢ Greven, Katharina. 2017. Creating ¢ - blen Filmanalyse. ffk Journal 2. http:// mythologies. In: Hopkins, Sam & Na- ing the African city through hip-hop dine Siegert (eds.), Mashup the Archive. in ‘NaiAdjirakor, Ni Ya Nikitta.Who?’ 2017.by Muthoni Construct the Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 60-64. Drummer Queen. Research in African ¢ ffk-journal.de/?journal=ffk-journal. Literatures 48 (1): 116-134. Towards a South African Literary ¢ Greven, Katharina. 2017. Indoor Post-PastoralismDonsomsakulkij,. Münster: Weeraya. edition 2017. as- images of European art patrons in Af- ¢ Anchimbe, Eric A. & Richard W. semblage. rica: Visual conceptions of self-stag- Janney. 2017. Postcolonial pragmatics. In: Barron, Anne et al. (eds.), The ¢ Création et Actualité en Afrique. Rabat: Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics. Whiteness and future environmental- Editionsing. In: Moussa,& Impressions Ijjou Cheikh Bouregreg, (ed.), London: Routledge, 105-120. ismDonsomsakulkij, in J.M Coetzee’s Disgrace Weeraya. (1999). 2017. 69-82. Journal of African Literature Associa- ¢ Anchimbe, Eric A. 2017. “Africa is tion 11 (1): 70-82. ¢ - violence at the crossroad of religion onised and ex-coloniser entities on- ¢ - andIbrahim, ‘new’ media: Musa. 2017.Periscoping Conflict faith- and line.not a In: game”: Mühleisen, Constructions Susanne (ed.),of ex-col Con- ribarri & Alexander Stroh. 2017. The based crisis through the eyes of the tested Communities: Communication, Dressel, Björn, Raul Sanchez-Ur- camera in the Sharia-age of Northern Narration, Imagination. Amsterdam: tics: A relational perspective. Annu- Nigeria. Journal for the Study of the Re- Rodopi, 95-112. informalal Review dimensionof Law and of Social judicial Science poli ligions of Africa and its Diaspora 3 (1): 13 (1): 413–30. doi.org/10.1146/an- 91-109. ¢ Anchimbe, Eric A. 2017. Review of nurev-lawsocsci-110316-113750. Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingo- ¢ Kimani, Rose Nyakio 2017. Com- ma, and Saudah Namyalo (eds.). 2016. ¢ Greven, Katharina. 2017. A place munity radio in a commercial broad- Ugandan English: Its Sociolinguistics, of belonging – The ‘Phantasy Africa’ casting landscape: Kenya’s Koch FM. Structure and Uses in a Globalising within the archive of the European Radio Journal 15 (2), special issue on Post-Protectorate - art patrons Ulli and Georgina Bei- Community Media, 195-209. mins. English World-Wide 39 (1): 117- er. www.internationaleonline.org/ 121. . Amsterdam: Benja opinions/112_a_place_of_belonging_ ¢ Kroeker, Lena & Maike Voigt. 2017. ndash_the_phantasy_africa_within_ Themenfelder sozialanthropologis- ¢ Balogun, Adeyemi S. 2017. The dy- the_archive_of_the_european_art_pa- cher Mittelschichtsforschung: Eine namics of traditional religion in the trons_ulli_and_georgina_beier Yoruba Academy Reflects 2. Working Papers Studies Review 2 (1): 73-96. derVorstellung Bayreuth Academy Bayreuther of Advanced Projekte. Af- political economy of Ìkòrodú. rican Studies 16: 1-23.

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¢ Lehmann, Fabian, Nadine Siegert Volgger, Peter and Stefan Graf (eds.), (eds.). 2016. Mittelklasse, Mittels- & Ulf Vierke (eds.). 2017. Art of Wag- Architecture in Asmara: Colonial Origin chichten oder Milieus in Afrika. Gesells- nis: Christoph Schlingensief’s Crossing and Postcolonial Experiences. Berlin: chaften im Wandel?. Baden-Baden: No- of Wagner and Africa. Wien: Verlag für DOM Publishers, 297-305. mos. Moderne Kunst. ¢ Matzke, Christine. 2017. Whose ¢ Müller, Sebastian. 2016. Islamische ¢ Lehmann, Fabian. 2017. Die kon- Wohltätigkeit und Entwicklungsor- struktive Verunsicherung: Drei Plä- in Eritrean drama practice, 1970s to ganisationen. Grundlagen des Engage- doyers für das Missverstehen in earlyside are 1990s. you on?In: Balme, Cold war Christopher trajectories B. ments und exemplarische Einblicke interkulturellen Begegnungen. In: and Berenika Szymanski-Düll (eds.), in die Praxis. In: Ströbele, Christian, Völkel, Bärbel & Tony Pacyna (eds.), Theatre, Globalisation and the Cold Neorassismus im Spannungsfeld der War. London: Palgrave Macmillan, & Muna Tatari (eds.), Armut und Ger- Kulturen - (k)ein Bildungsproblem!? 273-292. echtigkeit.Anja Middelbeck-Varwick, Christliche und Amirislamische Dziri Bielefeld: transcript, 147-166. Perspektiven. Regensburg: Friedrich ¢ Mohamed, Ghousmane. 2017. The Pustet, 202-215. ¢ Lehmann, Fabian. 2017. The Afri- performative value of the tradition- can Roots of Wagner’s Operas. Schlin- ally uttered word of the Tuareg of the ¢ Müller, Sebastian. 2016. Krisen gensief‘s unsettling montage in the Aïr (Niger). Asian Journal of African booklet Festspielhaus Afrika (2009). Studies (ASAJ) 42: 42-93. Nothilfe und langfristiger Entwick- In: Lehmann, Fabian, Nadine Siegert & lungsmaßnahmenund Glaube. Streiflichter im Namen islamischer des Is- Ulf Vierke (eds.), Art of Wagnis: Chris- ¢ Moreillon, Olivier & Alan Muller. lams. In: Öhlschläger, Rainer & Hart- toph Schlingensief’s Crossing of Wagner 2016. Half ‘n half: Mytho-historical mut Sangmeister (eds.). Krisenhilfe and Africa. Wien: Verlag für Moderne and spatial entanglements as means oder Hilfe in Krisen?. Baden-Baden: No- Kunst, 101-116. to (re-)negotiate South African white- mos, 97-115. ness in Charlie Human’s Apocalypse ¢ Lehmann, Fabian. 2017. The uto- Now Now and Kill Baxter. Journal of ¢ Neubert, Dieter. 2017. Mobilität, Un- pia of a digital database. The physical Literary Studies 32 (3): 77-79. sicherheit und verdeckte Schließung: archive and the digital database. In: Neuformierungen in der Mittelschicht Hopkins, Sam & Nadine Siegert (eds.), ¢ Moreillon, Olivier, Alan Muller & Kenias. In: Lessenich, Stephan (ed.), Mashup the Archive. Berlin: Revolver Lindy Stiebel (eds.). 2017. Cities in Verhandlungen des 38. Kongresses der Publishing, 76-81. 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1950–2016 Otto Frick

TEXT Sigrid Horsch-Albert PHOTO Otto Frick

Otto Frick (1950-2016) – an excellent expert on history and art-scenes of West Africa – died unexpectedly on 3 October 2016 in an accident in Lomé, Togo. He lived and worked for many years in Togo as staff member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), formerly known as the Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst (DED). Otto Frick was the head of a studio for visual communication and the author of many publications on the issue of culture and art in Togo and Benin. He also acted as a manager for cross-cultural communication. Parts of Otto Frick’s estate now reside in Bayreuth since February 2017. Here, the estate will be digit- ised as part of DEVA – Archive and Database System for African Studies at

time, the collection of diverse materials collected by him were inspected andthe University assembled. of Besides Bayreuth artworks and also like as part paintings of the andIwalewahaus. sculptures, For the the estate first also contains various newspaper articles and a large quantity of notes and -

Bayreuth.documents There about are his also projects. over 200 One posters of these including was the ones exhibition like The “Afrika Second Confrencenische Reklamekunst” of Negro Writers (October and Artists2002–January from 1959 2003) and at No the Condom Iwalewahaus No Sex from 1998. Approximately 180 music CDs complement the estate. After the itemisation and the indexing of the estate, it will be made available for re- Otto Frick in Lomé, Togo, on 30 September 2016

search and teaching just like the collection of the Iwalewahaus.

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