NAB Newsletter of African Studies at the University of Bayreuth

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o awarded Interview an Honorary Doctorate Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o The renowned, Nobel-prize nominee, literary critic and prolific writer was awarded the first ever BIGSAS honorary doctorate degree of the University of Bayreuth. Bayreuth Academy Anton Wilhelm Amo (1703-1750s) An international conference about “Concepts of Future in Mediaspaces of Africa and its Diasporas”.

Catastrophe or catalyst? African and African Diasporas’ visions arising from World War I. BIGSAS Confirming partnership and strengthening international cooperation BIGSAS meets its six partner universities from Africa.

Festival of African Literatures 2014 For the 4th successive time, the BIGSAS Festival of African and African-Diasporic Literatures took place. Iwalewahaus Iwalewahaus is settling in The new contact-zone in the heart of the city goes operational.

Schlingensief – Wagner – Africa A research and exhibition project.

INSTITUTE OF AFRICAN STUDIES Vol. XIV 2014 EDITORIAL WELCOME

The IAS Editorial Welcome

The Institute of African Studies (IAS) has several main functions: it NAB XIV 2014, Newsletter of African Studies at the University of Bayreuth, Dear readers, coordinates Africa-related research remains true to its vision of highlighting the major activities of the and teaching at the University of Institute of African Studies (IAS) and its Africa focus. The new design NAB: Bayreuth and promotes cooperation and structure introduced in NAB XIII has been extensively used here by Newsletter of African Studies at the University of Bayreuth It is with pleasure that I present to you this new volume of our newsletter, with African universities and research , which reports on the activities, institutions, as well as with national the affiliate institutions of the IAS in reporting on their activities and research projects, conferences, publications, guests, etc. of the Institute of African and international institutes of African projects. Studies (IAS) in the year 2014. This volume, like the previous ones, offers information studies. This new volume of NAB was realised thanks to the concerted efforts Academy of Advanced African Studies (BA), Bayreuth International Graduate School on the projects carried out by the affiliate institutions of IAS, especially, Bayreuth African studies is one of the cross- discipline research priorities of of many people. The IAS, through its academic coordinator, Franz of African Studies (BIGSAS) and Iwalewahaus. It also reports on some Africa-related the University of Bayreuth, as set Kogelmann, offered the much needed logistical and financial support. projects realised by the University, for instance, the creation of The Bavarian Research out in the Mission Statement and We wish to thank all contributors for their support during the editing Institute of African Studies (BRIAS) hosted by the University of Bayreuth with three the University Development Plan. and production process. Our ingenious typesetter, Yannick Tylle – who other Bavarian universities as partners, namely, the University of Würzburg, Ingolstadt The IAS thus seeks to promote always has answers for just everything – deserves thanks for the design University of Applied Sciences and Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences (see p. 55). and coordinate the research and of the newsletter. Thanks also go to Gilbert Ndi Shang for copy-editing the teaching activities of approximately contributions at various stages in the production process. One major even this volume celebrates is the award of an honorary doctorate to the 100 researchers on a cross-faculty BIGSAS.internationally-renowned, The IAS again achieved Nobel-prize its internationalisation nominee, and literary vision author by honouring and critique a man Ngũgĩ who, and interdisciplinary basis, as well For Ute Fendler and Ulrich Berner whose terms as IAS director and vice wa Thiong’o (Kenya) by the University of Bayreuth through the recommendation of as training for young researchers in moredirector than respectively seven years ended on the in editorial January 2015,board weof theare NAB, grateful withdrew for their to Africa-related disciplines. There are concentrateconsistent support. on new Wetasks also in wishthe faculty. to thank Magnus Echtler, who after for over 60 years, has championed the writing of literature in African languages. You can currently about 50 professors and read more about Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, his inspiration and future projects in the interview about 50 other researchers who are Ihe wish granted to thank NAB all (p. colleagues, 9). collaborators, guests, friends and students of the IAS and engaged in research in Africa and As always, contributions to NAB are expected in October of every year. who teach Africa-related courses, in We, therefore, call on our regular contributors to respect this deadline as its affiliate institutions for the great work done in 2014 and to wish you all a wonderful Faculties II (Biology, Chemistry and letter to you. Thus, I want to use this medium to wish the recently elected director of IAS well as the guidelines for preparing the different types of contributions. year 2015. My term as the director of IAS ended in January 2015, making this my last Earth Sciences), III (Law, Business Administration and Economics), IV behalf of the whole IAS team, I am grateful for the feedback we received from you, the We wish you a happy new year 2015! Dieter Neubert and vice director Rüdiger Seesemann all the best for the future of IAS. On (Languages and Literatures) and V readers, and I assure you NAB will continue to serve you as always. (Cultural Studies). The IAS initiates cross-disciplinary research projects and supports I wish you a happy reading! common Africa-related applications for external funding. The IAS budget Eric A. Anchimbe Editor-in-chief is administered and supervised by the executive board. Ute Fendler On behalf of the editorial team Institute of African Studies

2 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 3 CONTENTS CONTENTS

2 — Editorial 3 — Welcome

6 — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o awarded an 24 — BIGSAS Honorary Doctorate 24 — Status Quo Renowned, Nobel-prize nominee, literary The number of Alumni is steadily increasing critic and prolific writer, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, 26 — Confirming partnership and strengthening was awarded the first ever BIGSAS honorary – BIGSAS – “Zukunft 26 23 international cooperation doctorate degree . strengthened its Afrika: Ein Lerntag” BIGSAS meets its six partner universities from partnership and workshop brought Africa 9 — Interviews cooperation with together research- 27 — Creation and Actuality in Africa 9 — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o its six partner uni- ers, BIGSAS junior versities in Africa fellows, artists and An international conference at BIGSAS A plea for cultural and linguistic diversity a diverse public to partner university in Rabat, Morocco 13 — Yohannes Woldetensae, African Union discuss the Acad- 28 — 4th BIGSAS Festival of African and Senior Education Expert emy’s research African-Diasporic Literatures 2014 » All thematic areas are important to attain projects. 30 — BIGSAS alumni visit German research the vision of the African Union which is to funding institutions in Bonn build an integrated, peaceful and prosperous 31 — BIGSAS@school Africa ... « 32 — High quality music time: BIGSAS & Police Department, Upper Franconia 15 — Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies 33 — Iwalewahaus 32 – BIGSAS and 15 — Anton Wilhelm Amo (1703-1750s) 50 – The African 33 — Settling in? the Upper Franco- Visions between Slavery and Enlightenment, Studies Association The new contact-zone in the heart of the city nian Police Depart- between Europe and Africa in Germany (VAD) goes operational ment continue held her biannual 17 — Utopia: Where it’s at. their outreach 34 — Interfacing with the archive conference. A workshop of the Bayreuth Academy’s activities. A follow up project of Mashup the Archive “Revolution 3.0” sub-project 36 — 49° Grenzüberschreitungen Festival 18 — Catastrophe or catalyst? 37 — Who’s been in the Archive? African and African Diasporas’ visions arising Uche Uzorka and Maimuna Adam: Artists in from World War One – An international residence conference of the Bayreuth Academy’s Sub- 38 — Collected project “Narratives of the Future in Modern A three-part exhibition at the Iwalewahaus African and Atlantic History” 40 — The Iwalewahaus’ ‘Object of the Month’ 20 — Multiple Concepts of African Nature 42 — Schlingensief – Wagner – Africa A Bayreuth Academy Working Group A research and exhibition project 21 — Negotiating concepts of nature and 43 — Back home – via Bayreuth future in Africa 42 – Iwalewahaus William Bloke Modisane’s writings taken back An international conference of the Bayreuth is investigating home to South Africa Academy 33 – The Iwalewa- Schlingensief’s haus now at home approach to 22 — Technology, internet and their effects on in the new building. Wagner’s music. 44 — Guests diaspora, race and the future 50 — Reports An international workshop of the Bayreuth 69 — Projects Academy 71 — Personalia 23 — » Zukunft Afrika – Ein Lerntag « 73 — Publications A one-day-workshop – The Bayreuth Academy 78 — In Memoriam reaches out in Munich 79 — In Brief

4 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 5 NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’O

Born in 1938 in Kenya Grew up during British colonialism (1895-1963) Witnessed the Mau Mau War of Independence (1952-1962) Studied at Makerere University Kampala, Uganda and University of Leeds, Britain Was visiting Professor of in recent years: e.g. the renewal of - English and Comparative Literature at Yale University the creation of the Bayreuth Acad- awardedInitiated by bya Graduate BIGSAS, Ngũgĩ’sSchool honand (1989-1992) BIGSAS in the Excellence Initiative, orary doctorate was the first to be emy of Advanced African Studies, the not a faculty as it is usually the case. Currently Distinguished Professor of English and - Comparative Literature at the acquisition of the new Iwalewahaus The presidents, rectors and vice fessors, academic and non-academic universities in Africa as well as over University of California, Irvine building, etc. and everybody – pro- chancellors of all six BIGSAS partner tribute tirelessly to its success both in award ceremony. Awarded 10 honorary Germanystaff, students and abroad. and friends – who con 40 BIGSAS alumni also took part in doctorates

in AfricanFor the literature Dean of BIGSAS,but his Dymitrworks Accompanied by his wife Njeri Ibriszimow, Ngũgĩ is not only a pillar wa Ngũgĩ and his assistant Barbara Caldwell, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o flew in also carry the very core that defines elaboratefrom California award toceremonial personally act. accept Close Afircan literature. This is because, as ropean languages in the economic, the honour and to take part in the he explained, political and cultural life of Africa. For Ngũgĩ presents his acceptance speech. » If you decide to do African Studies, you afriends, hundred contemporaries, guests attended and the critics cere- monyfrom allto honour over Europe a literary and baobab more thanwho sooner or later get in touch with the oeuvre of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. From that moment on, - has remained at the apex of African Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o stays with you forever. You literary creativity and pivoted writ ing in African languages in the past 70 live with him, delve into his oeuvre, exchange Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o awarded years. It was, therefore, no surprise views with him, and experience him. For many that his acceptance speech was not of us, today is a coronation of our common languagemade in English, in which German many orof anyhis othermas- an Honorary Doctorate language but in Swahili – an African routes with Ngũgĩ, regardless of whether he - terpieces are written. - was aware of these routes or not. « Renowned, Nobel-prize nominee, literary critic and prolific writer, Ngũgĩ wa Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is a distin Thiong’o, was awarded the first ever BIGSAS honorary doctorate degree of guished Professor of English and Com yearsparative now Literature including 2014, at the he University has been - those who know him and his works, the University of Bayreuth on 5 May 2014. of Caifornia, Irvine (UCI). For many- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s commemora- acclaimed work: Decolonising the Mind nominated for the Nobel Prize for Lit versitytive speech, in languages held in and Swahili, cultures. was The an this position re-echoes his critically- TEXT Eric Anchimbe & BIGSAS knownerature. as Ngũgĩ Kenya, was then born a British in 1938 settler into impassionate plea for a world of di- PHOTOS Peter Kolb It was this voice, this talent and this a large peasant family in what is today- es and cultures that has been further (1986). onwere fellow fighting Africa for writers independence, gathered hisin the spiritual subjugation” (1986: 9). - hierarchical stratification of languag- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s relationship voice was already poignant, calling- of Bayreuth celebrated with an honor- lishcolony. and He Kikuyu, is the authorhis mother of over tongue 25 liter and - isto alsoBayreuth tied the started birth ofexactly his globally 30 years in- ference entitled “Conference of Afri- literary prowess that the University- translatedary and critical into manybooks, other written languages. in Eng consolidated by the processes of glo ago in May 1984.Decolonising To this relationship the Mind, Uganda for the African Writers Con balisation, Ngũgĩ said, must not be al Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is one of the most- - ary doctorate on 5 May 2014. Remain lowed to prevail. Any single language fluential text, - eraryinfluential creativity, literary literary heavyweights criticism of tivecan Writerswritings. of AtEnglish that crucialExpression” histori to- ing true to his 1962 position, Ngũgĩ wa twenties.At 77, he stillHis latestwrites work voraciously In the Houseas he or culture deserves its right to exist – versitywhich wasof Bayreuth. completed Additionally, during a two- his andcontemporary the debate times.on the His use voice of African in lit adopt African languages in their crea Thiong’o performed his acceptance ofdid the in Interpreter: the 1960s whenA Memoir he was (2012) in his is just like any individual human – and, month guest professorship at the Uni languages in African literature has speech in Swahili. - therefore, must be treated as equal - cal and political point, he knew andof Bayreuth,Ngũgĩ’s honorary its African doctorate Studies wasfo- partners living in a mutual give-and- thoughts have also been influenced by professed that “The [colonial] bullet a major highlight for the University hisproof 10 ofth honorary this. Bayreuth’s doctorate. honorary doc take relationship. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o,- the Richard Wagner festival, and es been simply outstanding. As far back was the means of the physical subju torate, he said, is special because it is therefore, vehemently opposed the pecially the opera house. He revisited 6 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 7 as 1962, when most African countries gation. Language was the means of cus which has expanded exceedingly supposed absolute dominance of Eu this in his speech thus: INTERVIEW

» The hegemony of a few languages on the globe is comparable with the reduction of a big Wagner orchestra to a few, similar sounding brass A plea for cultural and linguistic diversity instruments. The death of any culture and language minimizes the human world orchestra. If the honour this venerable University is granting me today On the occasion of the award of an honorary doctorate to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o helps the world to remember that the struggle for languages and cultures in May 2014, Eric A. Anchimbe (NAB editor-in-chief), Shola Adenekan (BIGSAS must go on, then I take this honour with gratitude because the life of every Postdoc) and Gilbert Ndi Shang (BIGSAS Alumnus), engaged Ngũgĩ in a language and culture throughout the world enriches the human orchestra. « relaxed but thought-searching interview.

The diversity of languages that alumnus Gilbert Ndi Shang read ex- his recent book Globaletics: Theory Q: We are very happy you found time ing renovated. But some others have and the Politics of Knowing (2012). during this ceremony to talk to NAB. remained same as I left them. I have Sometimes you make mistakes or start - - Offering you an honorary doctor- visited the Bayreuth Festspielhaus and to pioneering work in all these areas. widecharacterises today, was the workalso reflectedof Ngũgĩ wain thecerpts diverse from hisworld novels of languages in English. and the’s “Globalektik ate is an honour for the University of the Villa Wahnfried. They are very im- theThiong’o readings and from its receptionhis work during world cultures.Music isAly one Keita, language the thatrenowned unites Forthe Ngũgĩ,“liberation Adams of explained,literature from Goe Bayreuth given its strong research fo- on certain assumptions and these are the ceremony. The readings were balafon musician, and Peter Cervenec, ” is nothing but cus on Africa. How do you feel about later revised by further scholarship. in three of the languages in which this? Q:pressive You ashave always. taught in the US for The coming to being of a field of study- his works are written or have been hadthe straitjacketsuccessfully of transformed nationalism”. Shethe more than four decades, at renowned ission not of thea conversation work of any over one a person,long time, or translated into. In a dramatic man- the pianist, fascinated the audience- made it clear that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o universities like North Western, New set of persons. It is always an expres- with excellent musical performances th matter of fact, this is my 10th honorary York, Yale and California-Irvine. What though they did not understand a during the ceremony. Ngũgĩ, in his sig concept of world literature from the doctorate.Ngũgĩ: I am So, very there happy is a certain to be here. “round As a- would you say has marked the evolution likeand Kwabena African Studies Nketia, iswhen not they an excep start- ner that thrilled the audience – nature spontaneous fashion, suddenly colonialtime-related literature restrictions in the 21 ofst century. the 19 of African studies in the USA? Has the edtion African in that Studiesregard. inI remember Ghana based people on alumnus, Samuel Ndogo, read from ajumped German to audiencethe floor andtrained danced in the to theso- century into a modern vision of post- and honoured. study of Africa as the anthropological theword original of the Kikuyu version text – BIGSASof the lemnitytunes of ofthe academic balafon, events.to the surprise of - ness” about it and I feel deeply happy “other” witnessed any change? novel Devil on the Cross. Thomas ourThe this University internationally-esteemed of Bayreuth is the Q: 30 years ago, you were in Bayreuth ofNkrumah’s area studies concept. anywhere In fact,on the African conti- was held by Anne V. Adams, a well- firstauthor university with an inhonorary Germany doctorate. to hon as a DAAD guest professor and while nent.Studies Nkrumah in Ghana saw was African amongst Studies the first as works into German also read from acclaimedThe keynote scholar and of laudation African studiesspeech - here you worked on your book Decolo- a whole. There is a history not only of a connecting tool between Africa and theBrückner, German translator translation, of Ngũgĩ’swhile - , what are your impres- AfricanNgũgĩ: I Studiescannot butspeak also about of Black the USStud asits Diasporas. He conceived of African As inscribed on the doctoral certifi sions of the town today? ies. - Studies in the continent as a centre of and emerita Professor at Cornell Uni- cate, Bayreuth is honouring Ngũgĩ wa nising the Mind BIGSASWangũi junior wa Goro, fellow translator and journalist from versity in New York. She talked about Thiong’o’s “Outstanding contribution Of course, there has been an evolu- Swahili into English, read in Swahili. the concept of world literature ini to the profiling of African literatures, tion. Even then it was not necessarily Pan-African intellectual enterprise. Photo by Mbuguah Goro buildings and others which are be- Q: Globalisation is a major theme in your tially developed by Goethe, and which especially the literatures in African Ngũgĩ: Obviously, there are some new the study of the anthropological “oth 8 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 9 Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard and BIGSAS Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has addressed in languages”. er”. Sometimes we have to pay respect INTERVIEW INTERVIEW

academic and literary works. You have ers are coming to being on the shoul- the question of African languages. If the realities of the continent or has it rather doing same and even much better critiqued it as simply the reconstruction - ders of those who have existed before computer in the village is all in English, granted you a kind of distance to look of centre-margin binaries that has led to through ships, very slowly. Finance them. When you read Adichie, for then we come back to the same thing: the with greater insight at the country and further hegemony. What are the stakes capital can move as quickly as the In example, you are aware that she has read imprisoning of the African imagination, continent? within preserving my commitment African to languages? African lan - I for Africa in globalisation especially in ternet can make it move. You can Achebe - trapped within European languages. I guagestake it ashaving a challenge to live inon a hownon-African to cope the domain of cultural production? relocatemove finance them capitalto Hong from Kong Cameroon, and then - tocollapsing Bayreuth, the etc. industries So, when thereyou think and or fourth; that generations is a very important of African devel writ- forced into exile. But as of now I am course, there are tensions and contra- of globalisation you think of many others,opment. there So, is amongst a sense ofthe continuity second, third but prefer to see African cultures in con livingNgũgĩ: out You of are the right. country At firstbecause I was of language speaking community. Of are aware of my book titled Globalec- - versation with European, Chinese, certain conditions attached to my try to do the best you can. Whenever ticsNgũgĩ: First of all, I don’t know if you is moving, there is also a movement of ments. In my view, I may be wrong on Q:Brazilian, Let us continue etc. cultures. with the idea of con- - dictions which are part of that but you - er things as well. As the finance capital this,at the I think same they time are some even new bolder develop than versation in another dimension. In the is a friend like my fellow writer Chi- tion. now This has contains come to my mean, philosophy at least onto a broad exchange of ideas. While there our generation. There is a sense in 1960s-1970s, African literature had a profession and other factors. Current someone passes on, especially when it Africa,the question the globalisation of the “centre”. of Globalisathe world people, cultures, and ideas leading to which they feel that the world is also strong tie with writings from the Afri- ly, I hold the position of Distinguished- can Diaspora. Given the fact that it is Professor of Comparative Literature nua Achebe, Nelson Mandela, I sit to is the globalisation of capital, there is - the symbolic age of Barack Obama, do and English at the University of Cali think “How can I respond to this loss theirs. For example, the fact that youyou feel that this bond should be main- find them setting their novels in Af tained or should we be moving away novel,rica and We in Need the diaspora New Names is very, set inter both from this idea of Diasporan kinship? inesting. Africa A andgood America. example They is Bulawayo’s also have

has been that of struggle. Within dia- onlythe belief on Africa. and confidence I think that that is they a very can Ngũgĩ: First communities, of all, our history their inAfrican Africa equally comment on the world, not languages were banned. The drum was banned.sporan Their names were banned. But themimportant confronting development. the issue But thenof writ the- despite that, under these circumstances, sading in development African languages. is that I I doam not aware see they still retained the memory of their of the enormous works in Swahili and languages. This is the basis for the Zulu by vibrant generation of writers on the continent. We need to bring out the knowledge in African languages. languagesform of their that English bear markslanguages. of African When languages.you go to Haiti, These Jamaica, languages etc. youare meetborn Q: With many young African writers out of necessity in the New World. In now using the Internet to showcase that sense, their very creation was their creativity and even winning prizes with online works, what role do you think also globalisation in terms of global- that the Internet is playing in African » Exile is not always a negative thing. It is never a positive thing but its literature given that the new media tools consequences are not wholly negative. « andby finance out of capital.every region It is marshalled without any in of globalisation elaborately in Glo- are still far removed from most ordinary statesuch abarriers. way that Globalisation money can flowhas al in- balecticsism. I have discussed the question- Africans? ways been a crucial element in the an act of resistance. Because they fornia, Irvine. I tell everybody that I world from. My where concept we are, of we “globalec also feel tendency can be traced back to the tics” is one in which we perceive the - in English? There is something I feel, 16genesisth century, and growththe time of capital.of European This our languages are also centres of the Q:Ngũgĩ: Well, In still what in languages,English, French, by the Portu way?- ment;could notthey usefound drums, different for example,material canam willingwork in to a small give up village everything in Kenya to how can I express this in English.” exploration of other regions of the world. world.the impact from where we stand. So, guese, German, etc. andthey created created a something drum out asof ait. replaceThat is freemove of back attacks. to Kenya Some provided years ago, that my I So, I find myself writing in Kikuyu. I For example, - creativity. The cause of Pan-African- wife and I went back home after al- births,have got deaths, a body etc. of but poetry also in(you Kikuyu will Gama Q: Back to literary issues, today, : So, there is still the domination ism first developed as an idea in the West most twenty years of exile. But just that is not yet published, celebrating- in India, Christopher the exploratory Columbus inmis the we have a vibrant breed of young Indies (e.g. in Trinidad) and the Ameri- within two weeks of arrival we were Newsions World, of figures and so like on allVasco had dacolonial- African writers and artists com- Ngũgĩ - attacked by gunmen. It is not like giv- be surprised) my wife’s garden in Ir ist intentions. These very mercantile ing up, e.g. Mukoma wa Ngũgĩ, Bin- of African languages by the European - vine, California. You have both the yanvanga Wainaina, Chimaman- languages. But to answer your ques- cas. People like Sylvester Williams and one who believes in African languages theEnglish limitations and Kikuyu of exile. texts But juxtaposed. exile also da Ngozi Adichie, Uwem Akpan, etc. net.tion, There there is are nothing some peoplewrong whoin using are W.E.B Dubois worked idea in synergy before it witheven ing up on one’s own country. As some givesAll these you are a mycritical attempts distance to cope as withyou adventures were part and parcel of They grow up in a context completely thea bit Internet reluctant in writing. to adapt What to the is Inter good gainedKwame currency Nkrumah, on Jomothe continent. Kenyatta, A etc.key rightly said. So, exile is not always a the phenomenon of slavery and slave different from the one that shaped your about Internet facilities is that you can figureSo, it was who a is diasporan always forgotten is there.it would So, havein my been case, the I have best continued place to followedtrade in Africa. the routes Even ofits the second raw phase,mate- literary sensibility. Have you witnessed even publish online if you wish. The work and experiment more freely rialsthat is,from, the andindustrial the markets phase to,of capitalAfrica. any major trends amongst this youthful question as you put it is how to make Marcus circumstances. When I wrote Matig- whollynegative negative. thing. It is never a positive brand of authors? Any generational dif- this Internet accessible to the people in Q:Garvey. You had So, tothe leave diaspora your ishome central. country ariwriting I was in in Kikuyu London. under I wrote very Wizard difficult of thing but its consequences are not are mutually constitutive but in a way ferences? the communities, or how to get the word Kenya for various reasons. What has the Crow entirely when I was in the US. Q: In your future literary projects, Finance capital and mercantile capital from the Internet into print. But again, been the role of exile in your life as a If I can do that in Kikuyu in exile, so would you continue writing in Kikuyu

- the issue of technology brings us back to Photos by Mbuguah Goro scholar? Has it estranged you from the and translating into English as it is they are opposing polarities of the 10 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 11 same thing. Mercantile capital moves Ngũgĩ: First of all, these young writ what will prevent someone at home INTERVIEW INTERVIEW

the case with ? Or rican language stories everywhere I say represents you the best…you as should we expect to read you in Swahili could get them, were very key to me. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o? or Luo or Yoruba?Wizard of the Crow Q: What or who has been the secret of your success? a very beautiful way. HeNgũgĩ: said No,it’s it’slike aasking tricky one one. to Achebechoose Q:Ngũgĩ: You Inwrote Kikuyu, it will be in Kikuyu. in : Oh - once put it in Swahili and did the translation yourself Yohannes Woldetensae, African Union into English. WhatWizard is the of place the of Crow trans- INgũgĩ have always! you talked consider about me my as mother. a suc amongst their children. Everyone of lation in promoting literatures in Afri- Icess? have Ok, talked thank you.about To hersuch in questions, Dreams can languages? in Time of War and In the House of the Senior Education Expert talks to NAB! Interpreter school, so my dream of education was Invited by the BIGSAS workgroup “Higher Education in Africa”, the senior the conversation amongst languages. hers before. Firstit became of all, mine.she sent And me one to INgũgĩ: have often Translation said that is veryif you crucial think inof thing about her is that she could nei- education expert in the African Union Commission for Higher Education, - ther read nor write, yet she sent me to Dr. Yohannes Woldetensae, sat down with Christine Scherer (BIGSAS guage, that common language would school. But as far as I know, she is the languages as speaking a common lan- - Coordinator), Emnet Tadesse (BIGSAS junior fellow) and Eric A. Anchimbe

languages,bear the name the language“Translation”. in which So, I lande- one who supervised my first home (NAB editor-in-chief) to talk about the policies of the AU in the field of higher fine translation as the language of rememberwork. She washer evenmy first more. supervisor, I say to my so- education in Africa. look at human history of ideas, the role to speak. So, everyday that I write, I guages speak to each other. When you self: “You did this to me”. » I have often said that if you think of languages Q: We are happy to have you here in ences, agricultural science, engineer- - as speaking a common language, that common Bayreuth, and thank you for accepting ing, health science and medicine. We tional arena. language would bear the name “Translation”. « to talk to NAB. The African Union Com- also consider the humanities and so- playing a dynamic role in the interna mission is currently implementing re- Q: Could you briefly explain what the forms in the field of higher education in “Pan-African University” is and how it of translation is very crucial. I do not Q: Some would say that your mem- - Africa. What are some of these? muchcial sciences work ashas important already disciplines,been done works? only think of translation between Af- oir Dreams in a Time of War (2010) ing because of the circumstances in especially governance. However, since rican languages, which is a good idea, was long overdue. Given that your whichmy creative I wrote works them. has In athat special sense, mean The but it also means translating world lit- contemporaries like Wole Soyinka had Devil on the Cross stands out, given that technology,in the social though science not disciplines, neglecting the - erature texts into our own languages. written about two to three memoirs, - humanities.AU’s focus now is more on science and YW: The Pan-African University is- We are not saying that we shun or iso- what took you so long? kuyu. Secondly, I wrote it when I was Bayreuth,Yohannes Woldetensaeand to have this(YW): conversa First of- envisaged as a model for the develop late ourselves from the world. We need it was the first novel I wrote in Ki all, I am also very pleased to be here in- mental university. It involves the pro to translate works from other cultures talising higher education in Africa is motion, networking and development - what to say about myself. When I in prison. No pen, no paper, nothing. tion with you. One key concept in revi » All thematic areas are important to attain the lookedNgũgĩ: Initiallyat my life, I seemed I felt it wasnot toso knowordi- becauseYou then of havethe circumstance to find something in which in universities have been too academic vision of the African Union which is to build an into our languages. In that way, we ap - you to do that. Thus, I am proud ofMati that- the ‘developmental university’. Since propriate the world instead of always teresting to write about it. The other gari and Wizard of the Crow, because integrated, peaceful and prosperous Africa ... « Q:being Now, appropriated let’s talk about by the you, world. the man nary and I did not find anything in theyI wrote were it. I notam alsowritten very under proud veryof fa- paying less attention to community Ngũgĩ wa Thiongo’o. When did you first vourable circumstances, rather under engagement and development, the realise that you had a talent for writing thing is that when one writes fiction, conditions of exile and in a context involvementidea of the revitalisationof universities is toin place the Q: Much attention seems to be directed and a knack for telling stories? youone havedraws already so much said from everything his life. Youyou emphasis on the need for increased towards science and technology? wouldthink in want your to manuscripts say about yourself and novels in a local, national and the international of programmes and research centres- : I do not think that it is really a memoir. Now, I have got children and dominated by the English language. level.continent’s development efforts at the within selected existing high quality talent in that sense. It comes when you six grand children. So, my wife tells So, I am also very proud of them in a- the science and technology area does universities in the five geographic re Ngũgĩ sense. However, I do not approach Q: What academic disciplines are in- notYW: mean In fact, that as Ithe said, social more sciences priority are in gions. When fully operational, it will I don’t know about the others, the sto- tell your story to your grand children, childthem to in the the others. sense of “favourite” nov corporated into the ‘developmental consist of about fifty five centres of- have the desire to tell stories. For me, me: “You will not always be there to els. It would be as if to say I prefer one university’? excellence which will be spread across on Njeri. Q: Thank you for sharing these wonder- oneneglected. is “Governance, From the Humanities five thematic and the continent; coordinated in five re ries told by the fireside at home were so you better tell it now.” So blame it ful thoughts with our readers. areas of the Pan-African University, regiongions: Northern,will have a Eastern, thematic Southern, focus to aboutvery important this a little in firingbit in up my my memoirs orality. Q: Now the last question, which you Western and Central Africa. Each aboutI am a producthow I came of orality. to write. I have But talked also must not answer. If you had to choose, - YW: Science and technology have- Social Sciences”. All thematic areas about ten centres of excellence will - which of your literary texts would you tality in Bayreuth. been the priority on a continental are important to attain the vision of coordinate. For each thematic focus, Ngũgĩ: Thank you too for your hospi level since they are key to develop the African Union which is to build an Photo by Mbuguah Goro which includes water and energy sci- reading English language stories, Af ment. Of course, this is a very big area integrated, peaceful and prosperous have to be identified on a competitive 12 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 13 Africa, driven by its own citizens and basis. A Rectorate will be established INTERVIEW ACADEMY

- Q: Does the AU have programmes aimed - at the internationalisation of African - nationthat shall of bethe responsible Institutes andfor theCentres; over universities? up to 20 million Euros. The African all planning, monitoring and coordi Development Bank has also commit- missionted about is 45also million working dollars to mobilise for the and a host country will be identified Pan-African University. The AU Com for the Rectorate. The Pan-African becauseYW: Internationalisation of the globalised is and also com one- inUniversity African willhigher exemplify education excellence and re- of the targets of the African Union resources from its Member States and search.and contribute in promoting quality - Q:other The partners. way you present the AU’s higher motepetitive the nature international of higher exchangeeducation inof education vision is full of conviction, academicthe international staff, mobility arena today. of students, We pro commitment and confidence; it’s from your heart. What inspired you to take

and joint research projects between » ... there will always be challenges, we cannot Anton Wilhelm Amo (1703-1750s) simply stop, it is a developmental process. « Visions between Slavery and Enlightenment, between Europe and Africa African universities. In our Conti- up this job, i.e. as senior education ex- nental Harmonisation Strategy, we pert with the AU? thoroughly consider the dimension of internationalisation, within and be- An international conference of Sub-project 4 “Concepts of Future in - vision because it carries our interests YW: First of all, I believe in the AU’s Mediaspaces of Africa and its Diasporas” of the Bayreuth Academy Yohannes Woldetensae mobilityyond Africa. between For example, African universitiesThe Nyere re programme encourages academic continentand priorities is big as butAfricans. then weOf course,believe TEXT Susan Arndt & Peggy Piesche thatit is a achievinghuge responsibility something because new there- man we know as Anton Wilhelm Amo Q: In the year 2000, The Asmara Decla- and promotes intra-African academic and Peggy Piesche invited experts- Born in Ghana around 1700, the ration on African languages and litera- integration. The programme is part- - nd such as Kwesi Aikins, Ottmar Ette and tures was made. Where is the place of of the Intra-ACP Academic Mobility allyquires great, a lot which of effort. is whyThe manyI am sohigher mo- Jakob Mabe to share their recent re boughtwas captured and renamed and enslaved him and as offereda little African languages and literatures in the which is jointly managed with the Eu- education initiatives at the AU are re On 22 November 2013, sub-project search findings in lectures and panel child. It was Herzog Anton Ulrich who Pan-African University? tionropean of the Union. academic The EU mobility provided scheme. about - 4 of the Bayreuth Academy, “Concepts discussions, based on questions such- slaves: education, even higher educa- 45 million Euros for the implementa vention,tivated. Thethe harmonisation African Quality strategy, Rating onof Future Anton inWilhelm Mediaspaces Amo, ofalso Africa known and as: Who was Anton Wilhelm Amo? him what was a very rare option for - Q: Is the AU collaborating with other andMechanism, the intra-African the revised academic Arusha Conmo- asits Diasporas”,“Antonius Guilielmus convened a Amo workshop Afer ofWhat future, was hishis notionscontribution of freedom to the andEn - partners like the EU in higher educa- bility schemes, all contribute to this lightenment? What were his visions tationtion. Amo on thestudied legal philosophy status of blacks and law in YW: I think, the use of African lan- tion? - - - in Halle. In 1729, he wrote his disser sityguages education is more and practical research, in primaryinterna- ab Aximo in Guinea”, Germany’s first lightenmentsocial justice, affected and philosophy? by the fact Howthat tionaland secondary languages education. can be used For for univer scien- Thoughvision. If there you lookwill alwaysat it from be challengthis per- black philosopher. Although he con are conventional perceptions of En Europe – a document that has been- spective, you will not be frustrated.- tributed tremendously to the findings lost under unclear circumstances – so far the academic languages of the YW: Yes, we have some collaboration hisand life writings and work. of German and European one of its protagonists was of African and obtained his Magister in philoso- tific purposes. English and French are with the EU in the harmonisation ines, weadvocacy, cannot simplyresource stop, mobilisation it is a devel Enlightenment, little is known about origin, an enslaved person at that? sisphy entitled in 1730. DeOnly humanae a few years mentis later, apa in- - process of higher education, e.g. the opmental process. Our work is mainly- and a novel dedicated to Amo’s life and How is is Anton Amo Wilhelm remembered Amo’s in heritage public theia1734, Amo defended his doctoral the ricanPan-African nations University, and also becausesince they these are Tuning/Harmonisation project that Since 1976 a few articles, books memory and within the academia? twoused languagesas official languagesare relatively in most widely Af also promotes the development of the theand internationalpolicy formulation. community We try in orderto in since the early 2000s that more elabo- - in philosophy at the University- - Continental Qualification Framework, volve our partners, the diaspora and ratework information have been published.have surface It is about only agesperceived and visionstoday? Howdo inform are his the persona vari- of Wittenberg. For some years, Amo- rica. including the LMD reform. We have ousand workwriters discussed and activists today? that Which revisit im worked as a lecturer at the Universi spread in the academic domain in Af collaborative activities with UNESCO- ofto realisethe schemes our vision. we Beingare working part of thison, - ties of Halle, Wittenberg and Jena, in languagesThe practical (Arabic modalitiesand Portuguese) for the moteto facilitate mutual therecognition ratification of degrees of the givesadvocacy me a andlot of seeing courage the to importance continue. Amo, including three monographs by ferences between scholarly debates in fluencing many of the relevant debates asusage well of as other other African African Union languages official revised Arusha Convention and pro Yawovi Emmanuel Edeh (2003), Jacob Amo? Are there similarities and dif within philosophy of his time. In spite- should also be considered. Generally, Q: Thank you for talking to NAB, and re-contextualiseEmmanuel Mabe Amo’s (2007) life and and Ottmar work. itof ofhis his success time: slaveryand influence, was blossoming his life in in order to encourage local languages forand each university thematic qualifications.area, there are some With we wish you and the AU success in the Ette (2014) that revisit, reassess and- Germany, Europe, Africa and the rest Germany was determined by the spir regard to the Pan-African University,- realisation of these interesting projects ing the state of the art in academic re- academicof the world? career, his legacy during the was becoming even more aggressive use them in school education. This is a laborate and contribute resources. and schemes. The workshop aimed at discuss- Looking back at Amo’s enormous- and racism – its shield and sword – in higher education we first have to- international partners who will col - search and public memory, and to gen ing.Enlightenment, This is what we attempts know: to recon when Enlightenment struggled to put long process which cannot be accom For example, Germany is one of the erate a research project/network that struct his biography remain challeng it on a scientific pedestal. Thus, the 14 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 15 plished overnight. main thematic partners, committing YW: Thank you too. intensifies this debate. Susan Arndt professor and philosopher Amo was ACADEMY ACADEMY

ing royal subjects, thus being entitled with the beginning of the decoloni- Edeh, Yawovi Emmanuel. Mabe, Jacob Ette, Ottmar. to identify, analyse and overcome the 2003. Die Grundlagen der ences. Moreover, research is needed Emmanuel. 2014. Anton legal theorist Amo scrutinises the silencing of the very knowledge that philosophischen Schriften von to legal protection. Thus framed, the sation of Africa. In the 1960s, under 2007. Anton Wilhelm Amo – was generated by Amo, digging for Amo. In welchem Verhältnis the influence of Kwame Nkrumah, Wilhelm Amo Philosophieren initiated a new remembrance. Amo’s reasons for the whereabouts of this steht Amo zu Christian Wolff, position of blacks in the Europe of his the East German University of Jena interkulturell ohne festen were forced into enslavement. In fact, daß man ihn als „einen wetime, do where not even nearly know all blackwhether persons Amo After all, Amo, who lived most of his gelesen. Wohnsitz. Berlin: führnehmlichen Wolffianer“ - work was translated from Latin into activepolitics life of silencing and his ofentire his knowledge. academic Nordhausen: Kulturverlag bezeichnen kann? Essen: Verlag al freedom. However,English, Germanthis monument and French is heavily and - Bautz. Kadmos. Die Blaue Eule. himslef was ever granted his person coloureda sculpture by the was racist dedicated discourses to him. of - career in Europe, is hardly ever con researchers’Research major needs focus to delveis not on much his sidered as part of the history of Prus deeper into Amo’s work. Till today,- unnamedboth Amo’s African lifetime woman and theat his 1960s. side. hissia, stayGermany as a andfellow the of Enlightenment. the Bayreuth living in isolation and discriminated - He is presented half-naked, withwhite an In succession to this workshop and- against both within the German aca- duced the term ‘race’ to the German between these two human races is so successors,work or his influencebut rather on hison contemhis de- ber of the Academy’s Advsory Board, demia and the broader society. Some intellectualinfluenced bydiscourse. David Hume,Putting intro him- fundamental,respect in the and world. it seems The differenceto be just porary fellow thinkers and academic- It would be unthinkable to put a hasAcademy, enriched Ottmar the debate Ette, alsothrough a mem the as fundamental with regard to the cursively embedded in the dominant philosopher like Immanuel Kant on a- Anton graded position. This, in turn, is dis dubious pedestal like this. Wilhelm Amo – Philosophieren ohne of the few documents that bespeak the existenceself in the of tradition hereditarily of antiquity determined and - The workshop identified and in- publicationfesten Wohnsitz of his (Kadmos: recent book 2014). An- Wilhelmdiscrimination Amo ( againstBelustigende his person Poetische are Renaissance, Kant believed in the ability to experience finer feelings as perception of ‘Africa’ that positions- vestigated these complex dynamics of Schaubühnethe racist satirical poems about Anton - withWe regard may wonder: to colour” How (Kant did [1764] Kant biographies like Amo’s outside ofrace his. Amo’s work and its perception, aim tionskin coloursodours, – bloodwhereby characteristics he describes manage1905: 253). not to know Amo and his tory, as philosophically disenfran ing at intensifying transdisciplinary- editedother publication by Susan Arndt that documents and Peggy thePi- a close friend’s) by death, Johann Amo Ernst decided Philippi. to (ofother Blacks) sub-criteria, and a less such sensitive as perspira skin chised and as entirely defined by and decolonising research projects.- escheresearch is forthcoming. findings of the workshop ‘return’Feeling evento Ghana. more at a loss after facing The first attempts to change this Future scholarship has to add miss - relevant, too. He also claimed that work? Jacob Emmanuel Mabe argues lens of perception can be connected ing biographical or research refer (of the First Nations of America) as tothat associate the idea with of “das Immanuel Ding an sich”Kant In the two-day workshop, we dis (the thing itself) which we happen enslavementcussed the interdependence of Africans, his scholarlyof Amo’s these physical differences were to be - worklife journey and the betweendynamics theof canonising European insistedinterpreted that mentally the difference and positioned between aticallyand Johann and intensively, Heinrich Lambert while these was Utopia: Where it’s at. whitesin a hierarchy. and blacks Thus, was for not example, fundamen he- already approached by Amo system tal with regard just to colour, but also knowledge production in and since two philosophers were still in their A workshop of the Bayreuth Academy’s “Revolution 3.0” sub-project the Enlightenment. infancy (Mabe 2007: 56). Moreover, Enlightenment is known to have fourto the races ability and to argued experience that slavery deeper theoreticiannot Schleiermacher, of early born modern in 1768, herme but- TEXT Katharina Fink revolution and to investigate whether set the path for the modern pursuit of- wasfeelings. legitimate, Thus framed, as long he as identifies blacks Amo was, according to Mabe, the first celequality, of these freedom elaborations and liberty on asreason well (and others) ignored and silenced - Patraquim (Maputo) deconstructed- as Western democracy. Part and par neutics (Mabe 2007: 72). That Kant and how it applies to their working the term ‘utopia’ in the context of the wentwere asenslaved far as asking by whites for the(Kant extermi 1960:- - contexts. Some of the guiding ques Mozambicanof the visual history revolution. of Africa-related Tobias Rup theand invention progress of was ‘races’ the as endeavour generated toin 11-32). In his very late years, he even- theAmos racist findings agenda and referred knowledge to above. can According to the German philosopher tions of the workshop were: What precht (Berlin) provided a snapshot lateestablish 16th century, a scientific and underpinning relying on nar for- ica and Blacks. Amongst his numer- Inonly fact, be itexplained is this very by aracism firm beliefand the in Ernst Bloch, “all societies need uto does utopia mean in your research ousnation racist of thestatements, First Nations the following of Amer societalpias.” His change idea of is the one “concrete of the starting utopia” wasfield it and in the in yourtime ofwork? the revolution How relevant you Soviet posters as a solid example of that can be traced as back far as an- - being an integral part of forthcoming is the concept today? How relevant political iconography. - rations about difference and power- context. Kant writes, very close to resultant status of blacks in Europe The Icon Lab – a methodology for Hume’sis particularly original relevantwording, withinthat among this that is at the fore in Amo’s first pub aspoints an imagined for the ‘else-where’ Bayreuth Academy’s and ‘oth- are investigating? Where utopia is working with images – which was de- tiquity. The Enlightenment’s eager- the “hundreds of thousands of blacks lication (1729), his jurisprudential er-wise’sub-project is a “Revolution‘guiding star’ 3.0”. for change, Utopia, relevant, how does it manifest itself? veloped by the “Revolution 3.0” team, orityness toof provewhites the and existence thus their of human ‘right’ losttreatise and entitledhence we “On can the only Right make of thus locating the idea of the ‘future’ For instance, in visual cultures such was used to capture visual imagina to‘races’ enslave aimed Africans at claiming and colonise the superi wide was able to imagine anything great guessesMoors in aboutEurope”. its Thisarguments, text has beenrely- as political posters, leaflets, and other tions of utopia which then served as withnot a singleregard one to art[was] or everscience, found or whoany waskinds illustrated, of publications? analysed and con- Peggystarting Piesche, points a forresearcher discussions. with the An his white right in the present. In the course of two days, utopia- Academy,Icon Lab sessionand the was Ghanaian-born coordinated Ca by- parts of the world. That was not a by- ing on the reports written about it by In this spirit, the research team of tives by researchers from diverse nadian singer and songwriter, Kae Davidproduct Hume, of the Immanuel Enlightenment, Kant and but Vol it- ofother how honourable “the whites characteristic”. continually rose By contemporaries. Referring “Revolution 3.0” made up of Nadine textualised from different perspec Sun. taire.shaped the world view of such men as contrast, there were ample examples Africanback to Romankingdoms, history allowing and law,Africans Amo Siegert, Ute Fendler, Ulf Vierke, Storm Immanuel Kant, who was strongly argues that Roman law did recognise- Janse van Rensburg and Katharina disciplines. Mario Russo (Innsbruck) will be available shortly. above [...] the lowest masses and, Fink invited researchers, artists and conceptualised utopia as the “world A publication about the workshop 16 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 17 through excellent ability, acquired in Europe to have the status of visit activists to discuss the concept of destruction machine” while Luìs ACADEMY ACADEMY

the war was also a catalyst that ignit- Catastrophe or catalyst? – African ed new struggles for rights and new

- and African Diasporas’ visions visions of a “better” future in Africa- after World War One. Natalia Stachu ra (Adam Mickiewicz University, Po arising from World War One land), for instance, used the example inof South-Africanthe sinking of thememories SS Mendi of thein 1917, war, which to this day remains a focal point - An international conference of the Bayreuth Academy’s Sub-project alto strugglesshow how for influential recognition a catastrophic in a divid- event could be for political and cultur “Narratives of the Future in Modern African and Atlantic History”, 2–4 October 2014. ed society. James Olusegun Adeyeri (Lagos State University, Nigeria) used combatantsthe example orof labourers,homecoming to showNigerians how TEXT Max Krogoll & who had participated in the war as Achim von Oppen PHOTOS Bayreuth Academy the experiences of the war provided a platform for new demands for social,- economic and political rights in the context of colonial society. Several pa- moment for Africans and African pers illustrated how the war fostered World War One was a watershed- African attempts to leverage their loy limited to Sub-Saharan Africa alone In the concluding session, agree- colonialalty to one rule empire (e.g. Henry (or to Kam another) Kah, Siin- but also engaged with visions emerg- ment was reached that this confer- Diasporas in North America and Eu- order to improve their position under rope. From the suffering, hardship, theand future also the emerged. new opportunities It has long been cre alsobel Inal, demonstrated Margret Frenz). what different ef- ing in African diasporas such as the ence’s approach to the history of understoodated by the that conflict, in the newwake visions of the so- of But the different presentations Caribbean, where the war sparked World War One, emphasising its hard could have. Demands and visions re- a campaign for the enfranchisement implications as well as its manifold fects the experience of the conflict of women (Dalea Bean, University of effects on new departures in African called Great War, the elites of Europe - The West Indies, Mona, Jamaica), or societies and the African Diasporas, and the US imagined a ‘New World torysulting for fromdifferent these African experiences regions often and in Egypt where unfulfilled promises- is a fruitful one and can open up new Order’ of international cooperation, differed or even appear contradic- by the Entente ultimately led to the historyfields of atresearch large. Thenot onlyBayreuth in the Acadstudy- stageand new amongst demands the working for political classes and of ern African theatres of war through founding of the Society of the Mus of World War One, but also in global- economic rights jumped to centre- thegroups, Horn from of Africa the Eastern colonial and recruiting South Bayreuth,lim Brothers, Germany). the so-called The war’s Muslim stimu- the renewed interest surrounding the - Brotherhood (Sibel Inal, University of intoemy visions will continue of the tofuture pursue in thisAfrican in 100Europeth and the Americas. But, despite African observers. Anne Samson colonial Africa by a non-African dias- history,novative beyondapproach eurocentrist to produce insightstenden- from 2–4 October 2014, where schol wantedby no means to discuss separated if and from how Europe. World grounds to politically engaged West lation of struggles for equal rights in cies to look only at how futures were anniversary of the “Great War”, ars from England, Nigeria, Jamaica,- As part of this Sub-project, the team showed that many different visions the global and especially the extra-- Finland, Cameroon, Italy, Poland and (Great War in Africa Association, UK) pora, namely South Asians in British - European dimensionsth century of what (cf. Ken has- theseGermany visions. presented The conference lectures andwas paor- War One was a catastrophe not only EastThe Africa, conference was examined showed byhow Margret multi- imposed from outside. For the future nan)been are called still Europe’swidely understudied. “seminal catas pers on the nature and emergence of ratherfor Europe became but aalso catalyst for Africa for new and ideas for of the future could be present in one Frenz (University of Oxford, UK). - of this research project itself, a pub trophe”In order of the to 20shed light on World aboutAfrican their Diaspora future. communities, or Italy),state (e.g. in his South lecture, Africa), gave while insights Uoldelul on lication of selected papers from this Christineganised by Whyte, Achim vonwith Oppen, the assistance Susanne Chelati Dirar (University of Macerata,- faceted the topic really is. It was, there endconference is planned. At a later stage,- Lachenicht, Annalisa Urbano and- tions to the war were in the Horn of notfore, be suggested the war in by Africa Jan-Georg that should Deutsch be perhaps around the centenary of the toWar make One experiencesan innovative in Africacontribution and in bian Becker. Together, they are the The participants quickly agreed how different perceptions and reac studied(University but ofthe Oxford, societies UK) which that it were may of World War One, a larger confer toAfrican the multitude Diaspora of communities, commemorative and of Max Krogoll, Hanza Diman and Fa- that World War One was not solely a - - ence on this topic may be envisaged - catastrophe or a catalyst for Africa- Africa. Henry Kam Kah’s (University to be held in Africa, still as part of the- Bayreuth Academy of Advanced Afri- Bayreuth Academy Sub-project “Nar gardand to African the suffering Diasporas and duress but rather it in- ruleof Buea, was Cameroon) divided in presentation Cameroon illusafter affected by it. This would help to over- Bayreuth Academy’s overall project, canevents Studies on the hosted “Great War”an international in 2014, the toratives examine of the narratives Future in ofModern the future Afri both. It was a catastrophe with re trated how the perception of colonial- come the Eurocentric view of World- “Future Africa – Visions in Time”, cur can and Atlantic History”, which aims War One as a strictly European con rently funded by the Federal Ministry- - flicted on soldiers and civilians alike, the Drawingchange from broader German connections to French and co flict, which according to David Killing- ityof Education“Strengthening and and Research Advancing (BMBF) the conference “Catastrophe or catalyst? narrativesdeveloped that by Africansemerged andbeyond African but as particularly emphasised by David lonial rule in 1919. ray (Goldsmiths College, University of in the frame of its funding prior African and African Diasporas’ vi Diasporas, “at home” and “abroad”, Killingray (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) can never give an accu sions arising from World War One” London) in his opening lecture. But comparisons, the conference was not rate depiction of the nature of the war. Area Studies”. 18 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 19 ACADEMY ACADEMY

Negotiating concepts of nature Multiple Concepts of African Nature and future in Africa

A Bayreuth Academy Working Group An international conference of the Bayreuth Academy: 19-21 June 2014 (Summer Semester 2014)

TEXT & Photos Sybille Bauriedl TEXT & Photos Sybille Bauriedl

The Bayreuth Academy organised an of Advanced African Studies initiates international conference on the theme Each semester the Bayreuth Academy

a working group on a specific theme “Negotiating concepts of nature and invitesor topic guest as part fellows of its forresearch collaborative project future in Africa” on 19-21 June 2014 at work“Future in theAfrica form – Visions of working in Time” sessions, and the University of Bayreuth. Most of the naturesummer in term relation guest to fellows climate presented change their research on conceptualising thelectures Academy and workshops.and guest fellows Within dis the- cussworking research group results series, systematically members of debates and national parks in the context of colonial and postcolonial Africa. The participants reflected on- Discussionsand comparatively also often to stimulate include methwider- cludedthe question: that there What can is nature be no universaland what theoretical and conceptual debates. is future in African studies? They con on research about the future and Afri- - canodological area studies and empirical in general. reflections Previous inglydefinition on situated of nature knowledge. and future, It would, since - industrial agriculture, international any definition would depend exceed nations of nature-wilderness in Afri- tourism, and global climate mitiga- working groups focused on “Concep tion regimes are just as relevant for therefore, be preferable to ask: What tualising Future” (Summer Semester - is relevant for people in relation to governmentscan national parksand international as well as conflict inves- In2013) the and Summer “Multiple Semester Futures 2014, through i.e. ality and knowledge of nature as na- nature and future? What are their between pastoral people, national Time” (Winter Semester 2013-2014). the daily reproduction of the materi embodied fears, hopes and memories? subsistence economy. For whom are various future-cultures- discursivetors caused transformation by new climate ofadaptation common May-July 2014, the working group tional development schemes and the such as calculation, prediction and landprojects. traditionally These examples used for visualised farming, a researchers“Multiple Concepts who are of Africansenior scholarsNature” abelief natural relevant? resource, At the commodity, conference com “na- was convened. Eleven postdoctoral- The working group met weekly monture” good,was analysed environment, and described ecosystem as and covered topics such as “Epistemic service, social construction, narra- untamedfishing or nature pasturing waiting into for“waste green land” de- of the Academy took part in this work plurality in area studies”, “Liberation – wild, unused, underdeveloped and ing group as guest fellows and spent movements revisited”, “Shaping the - - up to one month here in Bayreuth. future of nature” and “(Re)thinking tionstive, artificial,of nature romantic were corroborated idea and a velopment investments. The theme of this working group- lecturesAfrican ruralwere andalso urbanorganised, landscapes among bycivilised case studies wilderness. from TheseSouthern descrip and for Inresearch the concluding on African session, nature the and par fu- tionsoffered and scholars models the ofchance Western to reflect and them,into the “The future”. right Ato numberthe city ofin publicSouth - ticipants suggested further directions- otheron hegemonic knowledge approaches, systems on presump nature, - erful rationalities of societal-nature fessor of Architecture and Housing, borderEastern region Ethiopia, between Northern South and Africa East ture. Research should focus on pow - Africa” by Marie Huchzermeyer (Pro- andern Kenya,Namibia. Zimbabwe, Uganda and the - colonialecology, environmentconditions in and Africa. landscape They - The case studies revealed the relations such as ownership (land- etarisationenon and scholars and commodification have to overcome of and their effect on colonial and post overUniversity land and of Witwatersrandits future in Sub-Sa Johan- - tionownership, (narratives land ofuse nature rights, and control natural of nature). Nature is a hybrid phenom- as framed by dominant understand- nesburg, South Africa) and “Conflicts concepts of nature and future in Afri contested ideas of human/nature-re- access to land), knowledge produc- tems if they want to understand what discussed possible visions of futures- - ca”. The working group was a success commodification of nature and the the temptationrationalities, of thinkingsocial constraintsin dual sys - lin).haran Another Africa major and Latin activity America” was the by andful exampleexchange. of In interdisciplinary addition, there were and heritage within colonial power geom and hegemonies behind environmen- ings of nature, in particular the du internationalKristina Dietz conference (Free University “Negotiating Ber manyinternational cultural scientificand social collaborationevents. renewablelations by problematisingenergy market, sugarthe imagi cane- extractionetries and of scientific natural resources, categorisation) mon- tal crises are. alistic worldviews and capitalist ap plantations producing for the global and appropriation (exploitation and 20 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 21 propriations of nature. Globalised ACADEMY ACADEMY ACADEMY

Technology, internet and their effects on diaspora, race and the future

An international workshop of the Bayreuth Academy

TEXT & Photos Henriette Gunkel & Mariam PopaL

On 12-13 January 2014, Sub-project 4 of the Bayreuth Academy, “Concepts of Future in Mediaspaces” held a workshop on the topic “Technology, » Zukunft Afrika Internet and its Effects on Diaspora, Notions of race and Conceptions of the Future”. The talks, panel discussions Ein Lerntag « extentand film are screenings notions of therace workshop and the pursued questions such as: To what through new technologies and the A one-day-workshop – The Bayreuth diaspora conceptualised differently Academy reaches out in Munich - digital? Which role does technology play in the imaginary, the specula- TEXT & Photos Katharina Fink in the Volkshochschule students so - lengedtive, the and futuristic? subverted How throughare visions new of - ‘future’ mediated, represented, chal nect with their own life worlds and Bayreuth. Earlier in the day, Kathari as to open a space for them to con na Fink together with BIGSAS junior- digitallymedia and on the global internet? archives What of areknowl the- - fellows, Gilbert Ndi Shang and Jimam edge,impacts on oftranscultural visions of ‘future’ dialogicity, as shared and formThe University for various is aforms space of for exchanges reaching spheres of experience. - Lar, visited a secondary school in Mu - matics technology, genetic ancestry out to the public. It provides a plat The type of research done at the nich, where they presented the well- sity of Ghana) talked about “Art and of thought, academic traditions, etc. Academy was presented by its re established outreach programme on localInternationally and translocal renowned conceptions schol in- Akosua Adomako Ampofo (Univer race itself becomes a digital medium, Theacross Bayreuth disciplines, Academy cultures, of Advanced schools searchers; Peggy Piesche, Florian “BIGSAS at School”, which is used to ars,Europe, invited Africa as andguests the USA?and fellows of new ways of using art and the digital atesting distinctive in particular, set of informatics arguing codes, that - Stoll, Achim von Oppen, Christiane- discussionsdeconstruct with prejudices children about in schools Africa astechnology strategies, in modes Africa” and and languages illustrated of a mediated narrative and visualisa- Reichart-Burikukiye and Katharina inthrough Germany. personal contact and intense tion that indexes identity. African Studies lived up to this ex Fink, both during the plenary ses The most glamorous highlight of the Bayreuth Academy, presented- - pectation when it organised a one- sion and also in smaller workgroups their latest research findings. The- ofa contemporary azonto Afropolitan critique sions of the future as negotiated in 21dayst workshop on “Zukunft Afrika” in which research topics and findings by Kae Sun, Ghanaian-Canadian lina)workshop talk wason “Queer opened futurities by Kara Keel and waby focusingGoro who on translated dance performances Ngũgĩ wa Throughout the workshop, vi- at the Münchner Volkshochschule on- themes,were presented Revolution in, Middle an approachable Class, Nar- singerthe day and was songwriter, an artistic at performance the Gasteig ing’s (University of Southern Caro Thiong’o’s inwork YouTube into English videos. discussed Wangui February 2014. rativesformat and for theHistory general, were public. discussed The in her talk, “African literature, trans- science fiction movies and Afrofu togetherEntitled “ZukunftAcademy Afrika: researchers, Ein Lern with a focus on future. Students of black futures” in which she linked- - turist imaginations were presented, BIGSAStag”, the junior one-day fellows, workshop artists brought and a - concert hall, who captured the key Glissant’s concept of errantry to cance and meaning of ‘Africa’ as sign thus challenging the dystopian vision aresearch term from questions the Twi oflanguage, the Bayreuth which the concept of fugitivity by explorPumzi. inlation the context and the of internet”, the Academy the in signifi a de- of the digital divide that positions andthe many Münchner more Volkshochschuleabout Africa. en alsoAcademy is the in title a song song entitled of his “Afriyie”,latest al- ing the afrofuturist potentiality of- theAfrica same – and time by itextension was outlined Blackness how diverse public to discuss the research- gagedA round the researchers table with on BIGSAS these topics doc- bum. In the artist’s translation, Afri- watersrand)Wanuri Kahiu’s also shortdiscussed film contem- - the– as history the anti-avatar of colonialism of digital and racismlife. At workprojects of the carried Academy out atthe the intersection Academy. toral fellows, moderated by the Acad- Raimi Gbadamosi (University of Wit constructive approach, pointing out Through the interdisciplinary frame - the conglomerations of past and pre- the future, both structurally and dis- tionyie means between “good researchers, delivery”, indicatingstudents, porary afrofuturist media practices- sent ventures and (possible) desires. cursively,keeps influencing and is continuously (Black) visions chal ofof the concepts of “future”, “vision”- homeemy fellow for foreigner Katharina researchers, Fink, centred aca- teachersa prosperous and interested future. The members interac of in his presentation entitled “Afro Alondra Nelson (Columbia Univer - and “Africa and diaspora” – the core- demicon questions migration of makingand the Germanyfuture ca a- infutures cinematic and takes technology” on racism by focustoday. andsity) technology closed the workshopfocusing on with bioinfor a talk- ties of the imagination. concepts of the Academy – was illus reers of international researchers in ing on different temporal strategies about the relationship between race lenged and crossed to other possibili trated. The presentations were com the civil society at the workshop was 22 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 23 prehensive enough to create interest exactly a glimpse of this. BIGSAS BIGSAS

Name Country of origin Title of dissertation Supervisor Localised adaptation to climate change: Pastoral agency under changing envi- Alemu, Girum Ethiopia Detlef Müller-Mahn ronments in dry land parts of Upper Awash Valley, Ethiopia Pilgrimages and syncretism: Religious transformation among the Arsi Oromo Geda, Gemechu Ethiopia Ulrich Berner of Ethiopia [Un/doing Sophiatown] Contemporary reverberations of a myth and in a Fink, Katharina Germany Tobias Wendl suburb Shang, Gilbert Ndi Cameroon State/Society: Narrating transformations in selected African novels Ute Fendler Coming full circle: Return migration and job-hunting experiences of Cameroo- Boger, Julia Germany Dieter Neubert nian and Ghanaian graduates from Germany The history of use and conservation of marine resources in Zanzibar: 19th Mkumbukwa, Abdallah Tanzania Achim von Oppen Status Quo Century to the present Conflicts, narratives of entitlement and competing views over Nech Sar Na- Debelo, Asebe Ethiopia Beate Lohnert tional Park, Ethiopia Financial performance of microfinance institutions in Ghana and Uganda: The number of Alumni is steadily increasing Flosbach, Johannes Germany Beate Lohnert Development and application of the achievement stages model Negotiating behavioural change: Regime interaction in environmental gover- Narh, Peter Ghana Beate Lohnert Alumni of BIGSAS (at the end of 2014) nance in Ghana Dispute settlement in Eastern Guinea-Bissau: Self-presentations, stories and Borszik, Anne-Kristin Germany Georg Klute 20 18 agency 18 17 Environment and social memories: Responses to involuntary resettlement in Marowa, Ivan Zimbabwe Achim von Oppen 16 North-Western Zimbabwe, c. 1900-2000 Le senar (langue senufo du Burkina Faso): Eléments de description et Manfred von 14 Traoré, Daouda Burkina Faso d’influence du dyula véhiculaire dans un contexte de contact de langues Roncador 12 10 Baiyewu, Timothy Nigeria The transformation of Aladura Christianity in Nigeria Ulrich Berner 10 8 Bloemertz, Lena Germany Socio-ecological dynamics in the Lower River Nyando Basin, Kenya Detlef Müller-Mahn Die Ordnung hinter der Ordnung: Ethnographie einer islamischen Geheimwis- 6 5 Kuhn, Tobias Germany Georg Klute senschaft (Senegal) 4 2 2 Funeral performances in Kenya: A Contribution to communicative genre Nganga, Simon Kenya Martina Drescher 2 1 analysis 0 Polygyny among the middleclass in Ghana: An anthropological study of urban Glover, Evam Ghana Erdmute Alber 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 family life

20 18 18 - 17 - reuth International Graduate School16 of African Studies. The year 2014, like 2013, was remarkable14 for the Bay Application for admission into BIGSAS for the Summer Se 12 - mester 201510 was openEurope between July and October 2014. A 10 PhD dissertations of BIGSAS alumni published in 2014 ing17 dissertationssuccess for a graduate were successfully school that defended started only in 2014,eight total of 156 applications24% were received from applicants in Africa 8 raising the number of BIGSAS alumni6 to 55 – a resound 5 amounts30 countries to a total (21 African, of 14 new three junior European, fellows. The five huge Asian num and- 62% Author Title of publication Publisher 4 2 - one2 American countries). The planned number of intakes years ago. The 17 new alumni come2 from nine countries1 - Bakpa, Mimboabe Etude du ngbem, parler gangam de Koumongou LIT Verlag Münster in Africa and Europe: Ethiopia, Cameroon,0 Ghana, Nige ber of applications and from so many different countries many. 2008 2009 2010 the2011 world.2012 2013 2014 L’intraduisible en question : Problématique linguistique africaine et décolonisation Brahima, Abraham Cuvillier Verlag Göttingen ria, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Ger testifies to the extent to which BIGSAS is now known around conceptuelle, une lecture critique America - Zwischen Suffering und Styling: Die lange Reise nigerianischer Migrantinnen nach Kastner, Kristin LIT Verlag Münster successful year if we take 7% lications, eight defended PhD Europa into2015 consideration also promises the to num be a- Europe In terms of dissertation pub Morisho, Nene A New Institutional Economics Approach to Smuggling NMP-Verlag Bayreuth Asia24% ber of dissertations awaiting Africa - Kulturtransfer in der Übersetzung von Literatur und Film: Sembène Ousmanes 7% Ndong, Louis Cuvillier Verlag Göttingen defence. 62% linedissertations in 2014. The were bulk published of them Novelle Niiwam und deren Verfilmung Niiwam: Der lange Weg both as monographs and on https://epub.uni-bayreuth. The Media in Society: Religious Radio Stations, Socio-Religious Discourse and Na- Ng’atigwa, Francis Xavier de/1681/ At the end of 2014, BIGSAS - tional Cohesion in Tanzania had 102 junior fellows from America were published in the BIGSAS 7% series “Beiträge zur Afrika Tchokothe, Rémi Armand Transgression in Swahili Narrative Fiction and its Reception LIT Verlag Münster Asia forschung” published by LIT https://epub.uni-bayreuth. 7% Networking the Nomads: A Study of Tablīghī Jamā’at among the Borana of North- two29 differentAsian and countries,two American i.e. inVerlag three Münster. languages: As German, the list Wario, Halkano Abdi de/1689/ ern Kenya countries.from 18 African, 7 European, shows, these publications are

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Confirming partnership and strengthening international cooperation Creation and Actuality in Africa

BIGSAS meets its six partner universities from Africa An international conference at BIGSAS partner university in Rabat, Morocco

TEXT BIGSAS the future. It became clear TEXT Maroua El Naggare tion to the remarkable contribution PHOTOS Yannick Tylle PHOTOS Ute Fendler of higher education manage- - give body to the social imaginary? ment,that, especiallythe already in thesuccess field- of BIGSAS and Moroccan partners, the- How do artistic practices ultimately ful intra-African networking In the frame of the academic exchange conference was enriched by the par realityreflect presentis concerned, issues how in a can diachronic artistic of an honorary doctoral de- - ticipation of Dodji Amouzouvi, Profes perspective? As far as socio-political Ongree the to sidelines renowned of the African award versities, an international conference Beninsor of Sociologyand Nataniel at the Ngomane, BIGSAS partner, Profes- writer and scholar this,should thematic be further meetings developed and entitledbetween “CreationBIGSAS and and its partneractuality uni in Abomey Calavi University Cotonou, practices be(come) strategies geared- Thiong’o by BIGSAS through rotatingand expanded. discussion To consolidate forums in toward affecting or impacting on this- Ngũgĩ wa sor of Comparative Studies at another reality? How is the relationship be Africa”The tookinternational place in Rabat conference on 24-25 BIGSASThis partner,transcultural Eduardo and Mondlanetransdis- Intween what art way and could politics artistic in contempocreativity the University of Bayreuth, the partner universities are April 2014. University Maputo, Mozambique. - functionrary societies as a constant in Africa formulation established? of BIGSAS took the opportunity comingbeing planned years. These to fine forums tune - to confirm and strengthen its- willbest practicemainly concentrate models for theon “Creation and actuality in Africa” – a- relationciplinary to conference current events aimed in atAfrica inves in - partnership and cooperation- - consolidation of the partnership be atigating global context. the concept Its objective of creation was to in utopian ideas and concepts? with its six partner universi- - tween BIGSAS and Université Mo- - On the closing day of the confer ties in Africa – Université Mo and a further internationalisation of structural development is- hammed V-Agdal, Rabat, Morocco Joumouaence, two Moubaraka Moroccan short movies hammed V-Agdal, Rabat, Mo sues such as quality assur – was organised by Ute Fendler, Vivi betweenreaddress artistic the question creativity of representa and social were screened: Asmae ElÉphémères Moudir’s rocco, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya,- national higher education structures. funding.ance, accreditation processes, diversi ane Azarian, Maroua El Naggare and- tion within the possible interactions (Holy Friday) Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, their universities and their respective- ty andThe equalityKenyan policieswriter andand researchliterary boun,Aminata all membersMbaye (all of BIGSAS) the laboratory and Ijou of - and M’hamed Cherkaoui’s ofBenin, KwaZulu-Natal, Universidade Durban, Eduardo South Mond Afri- scholar, Cheikhmoussa and Youssef Ouah- and political practices. (Ephemeral). - lane, Maputo, Mozambique, University of Bayreuth,Speaking duringinformed the hisceremony, colleagues, Ste honored with an honorary doctorate - Literature, visual arts and per As part of the conference, Nadine - rectorsfan Leible, and president vice chancellors of the University of the Af- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who was Literature, Art and Society at the Fac forming arts (theater, dance, spoken- Siegert curated the exhibition “René resentedca and Addis by their Ababa rectors University, or vice Addischan- ultyThe of Arts conference and Human brought Sciences, together Uni word) speak or reflect the world,- gats” made up of photographs by the- Ababa, Ethiopia – which were all rep - by the University of Bayreuth on the- scholarsversité Mohammed and doctoral V-Agdal, students Rabat. from ingechoing or deconstructing it in a creative it. way by captur South African artist Franck Marshall. which was signed by all seven univer- rican partner universities of the latest nisame from day, all participated over the world, in the BIGSASsigning - ing Constructivereality in its debatesactuality by and the updat schol- The exhibition took place at the Ar- sitiescellors. The partnership agreement developments in research and teach doctoralceremony. students More than as 40well BIGSAS as scholars alum - ars, critics and artists who attended chives du Maroc, the former National- - ing at the University of Bayreuth. Each of African Studies in Bayreuth were Bayreuth and various Moroccan uni the conference centred on the follow- Library of Rabat. The conference pro- on 5 May 2014 in the Senatssaal president contributed ideas about the versities, among them, Université Mo- ceedings will be published by the Fac of the University of Bayreuth reaf steps that are necessary for an even hamed V Rabat and Université Hassan ulty of Arts and Human Sciences, Uni 26 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 27 firms their trust in the cooperation closer international cooperation in also present. II Casablanca/Mohammedia. In addi ing questions: How does art feed and versité Mohammed V Rabat. BIGSAS

reading of letters from soldiers of colour, serving in WWI. This reading Horstcussed Köhler in their stressed entangled in importance his greet- phrase for what actually happened in ingfor 2014.to the After festival: all, as “If Bundespräsident we succeed in Berlin. In 1884, the German Imperial The World’s War Chancellor Otto von Bismarck invited was introduced by a sneak preview of- ofother course, European by mutual colonial consent powers of the to the BBC-production thefinding future a mutualmay arise understanding from it, umo of- Berlin to ‘harmoniously’ – meaning,- in the presence of it’s producer, Brit the past, a new, collective vision for vide the African continent, in order ish historian David Olusoga (Nigeria/ European colonial powers only – di UK), also author of the “The Kaiser’s ja ni nguvu, utengano ni udhaifu.” Holocaust”, who then enriched the Moreover, the guests were welcomed to intensify the colonialist conquest- festival programme with his talk on by the representative of the German ritoryand economic had been exploitation. divided among In just twothe “The World’s War: Race, Empire and ofForeign the City Ministry of Bayreuth, (Auswärtige Beate Kuhn, Amt), decades, 90 percent of African ter the Great War”. In his keynote lecture- Nino Klingler, the third deputy Mayor on 1914, Olusoga stressed that just as- - European colonial powers, especially- much as it was only in Europe’s inter dinatorthe Chancellor of BIGSAS, of theChristine University Scherer, of lands.France, This Britain, induced Germany, distortion Portugal, of the nal view that WWI did start in an ap Bayreuth, Markus Zanner, the coor- Spain, Belgium, Italy and the Nether- parent time of peace, WWI became a tems in Africa has to be called to ac- inglobal contestation. conflict because Whoever it was was not to only be the Director of the library of the Uni functioning political and cultural sys the territories of Europe that were theversity guest of of Bayreuth, honour and Ralf godfather Brugbauer, of - thisas well year’s as festival. Theodor Two Wonja exhibitions Michael, thecount African today, continent,at least “partially, suggests […] Wole for niesvictorious all around in Europe,the globe. automatically And soldiers the intractable economic problems of”- ofgained colour power were over serving the European and dying colo in Homestory Deutschland reate who holds an Honorary Doctor- all sorts of functions in the name of featured various aspects of his life. Soyinka, the Nigerian Nobel Prize Lau For one thing, in his book The Burden of Memory: The th andcomprises men from his three and other centuries 26 visually in Ger- Museate from for Forgiveness the University of Bayreuth, Europe. Yonas Endrias (Eritrea), a 4 BIGSAS Festival of African and many.arranged Additionally, biographies the of libraryblack women of the Berlin-based political scientist and writers such as Alain (1996).Patrice ThisNganang was Germanycommunity in 2014, activist, envisioning complemented new vi- wonderfully curated by Ingo Touis- to become the future of 1884 – and sionsthe programme of memory. by lecturing about African-Diasporic Literatures 2014 University of Bayreuth exhibited, as - (Cameroon/USA), Priscilla Manjoh - For the 4th successive time, the BIGSAS Festival of African and African- sant and his team, the private library (Cameroon/Germany), Maaza Meng- As always, poetry was in the air inof Theodor Wonja Michael which he iste (Ethopia/USA) and Malek Alloula the framework of the traditional Spo- Diasporic Literatures took place on 26-28 June 2014 in Bayreuth’s Old Castle himself donated to the University of from(Algeria/France) their novels. explored these fu ken Word & Music session. The mes (Altes Stadtschloss) and the Bayreuth Art Museum (Kunstmuseum Bayreuth) ABayreuth third exhibition Library. was Theodor shown Wonjain the turesWhen that revisitingare our past the when second reading core merising Maroula Blades (GB/Germa BayreuthMichael read Kunstmuseum: from his autobiography. Interna- ny) met the energetic performance under the theme “Literatures of/and Memory: 1884-1904-1914”. tionally renowned Beninese installa- Scottish scholar of arts and culture of RonAmber Delony (USA) and the- - date of the festival, 1904, Tanzanian- ian-Canadianbiting satire of singer-songwriter Bavarian-Berlin Kae-poet Temye Tesfu, accompanied by Ghana TEXT Susan Arndt 100th had shattered and destroyed African tion artist George Adéagbo’s instal- colonialismEverlyn Nicodemus in a ground-breaking discussed in and her Arriving in the Future (2014: edition PHOTO Peter Kolb War (WWI), the festival focused on forms of statehood, society, economic lation “L’Allemagne avant la Guerre Keynote the violent peak th of century’s German Sun. Moreover, the poetry anthology the effects anniversary of WWI of on the Africa First and World its systems, cultures and border regions, et l’Allemagne après la Guerre” visu - alised the lingering presence of the poignantagainst the talk Herero about theand 20the Nama. A launched.assemblage), To editedconclude by Philipp the festival, Khabo Convened by Susan Arndt and Nadja fore, at the fore since WWI redrew Africans. colonial past in the entanglement of- scenicfirst genocide, reading featuring the German words genocide of re- Köpsell and Asoka Esuruosu, was th - diasporas. Colonialism was, there- in spite of the resistance mounted by Europe and Africa. sistance against German colonialism though WWI is often considered the by theOn dayCameroonian one, the meaning scholar andof litera lega- Zimbabwean poetry icon Chirikure Ofuatey-Alazard, the 4 BIGSAS Fes colonial maps in Africa. After all,th cen al- Evoking the context of colonialism, turecy of David1884 was Simo, addressed a reading in by a keynoteKenyan Chirikure presented a griotage,- tival of African and African-Diasporic - 1914 was entangled with two other- such as protest letters of the famous which served as a poetic summing-up Literatures captioned “Literatures of/- “seminal catastrophe” of the 20 - “4”-years that are decisive markers- - Ovaherero, Nama and Wahehe was of the festival and an excellent prel and Memory: 1884-1904-1914” took tures,tury, perhaps economic because dynamics, it shattered cultural Eu in German, European and global his writer Tony Mochama from his short directed by Renzo Baas (Namibia,- ude to the closing open-air concert Castleplace on (Altes 26-28 Stadtschloss) June 2014 andin two the hisArt rope’s political systems, social struc coloniestory – 1884, on the that African marks continent, the begin and story “Pot Smokin’ Despots”, a deli geria)BIGSAS) and and Njamy performed Sitson (Cameroon). by Wangui with singer Njamy Sitson as opening- toric locations in Bayreuth – the Old - ning of Europe’s imperialist race for cious satire about Europe’s devouring wa The Goro same (Kenya), team, Michael directed Ojake this time (Ni anoact and Aly top Keita notch on instrumentalists balafon, featur- that corroborate the historical theme nityprocesses had createdand territorial “original realities, catastro the- against the Herero and Nama. These raisedof the Africanwas that continent, the “Berlin and aConfer panel- - ingand renownedcomposers IvorianHans Lüdeman singer Dobeton pi ofMuseum the festival. (Kunstmuseum Commemorating Bayreuth) the – fatal flipside of technological moder three1904, thehistorical year of landmarks Germany’s were genocide dis- discussion. One of the many issues by Katharina Fink (Germany, Bay 28 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 29 phes” long before WWI. Colonialism ence” is undoubtedly a euphemistic reuth Academy) performed a scenic Gnahoré, as main act. BIGSAS

BIGSAS alumni visit German research funding institutions in Bonn

Acquiring first-hand information for a future career in the academia

TEXT & PHOTO BIGSAS - ke, the alumni received detailed infor- - University of Bayreuth, Gisela Janetz Department for Scientific Affairs, A day after the BIGSAS 2014 Alumni Anselm Fremmer, Programme Di mation on the Foundation’s funding rector for Research Careers, Meike- alumni boarded the bus to Bonn for a programmes, e.g. the Georg Forster- Andermann, Programme Officer for- meeting on 5 May 2014, all 40 BIGSAS- Grants for postdoctoral research and grammeGraduate Director Schools for and Humanities contact perand cursion to the main German research discussionseveral other session attractive followed funding on varipro- son for BIGSAS, Corinne Flacke, Pro three-day (6-8 May 2014) working ex- ousgrammes issues forrelated experienced to research scholars. funding A - - - tions.Social In Sciences, her introduction, and Marco Corinne Finetti, funding institutions: the German Re Head of DFG Press and Public Rela search Foundation (DFG), the Alexan- Theand applicationsecretary generalprocedures then and invited eligi - BIGSAS@school der von Humboldt Foundation (AvH), bility for AvH grants and scholarships. searchFlacke stressedideas. the fact that the DFG A little taste of Africa in Bayreuth the German Academic Exchange Ser is very much open for bottom-up re-

andAt its the alumni Federal were Ministry received for Educaby the Ministerialdirigenttion and Research Dietrich (BMBF), Nelle BIGSAS and higher education researcher Katha- TEXT & PHOTOs BIGSAS schedule for a school day on which they rina Kloke. During the intensive dis- - - edge they have gained during the years thesibility day to with learn three some classes dance stepsfrom andthe ing Africa-strategy and how it could have to present their work and knowl 10a choreographyth with him. He started cussion about the ministry’s upcom African alumni offered advice and Creating competence about Africa only 2013 and 2014 to fellow students. In grade, who were first nervous, be developed and improved, BIGSAS’- theworks Graduate by working School, jointly BIGSAS@school, with Africa! family,preparation fashion, for music this day, and the dance, students refu- but then soon began to loosen up. He- gramme to research in their various bringsIn line withtogether this itsmotto, doctoral the project students of gees,formed and groups literature. with They different did research topics: ousinstructed moves. themDuring first the totwo do hours a short the input on the suitability of the pro and interviewed guests and junior fel- studentswarm-up becameand then more taught and them more variself- lows in order to become more familiar disciplines. - BIGSASwith students and the and Markgräfin-Wilhelmine- pupils from schools - - ni wereThe final funded stop by was the at DAAD the DAAD during on Gymnasiumin Bayreuth. (MWG Since September 2013,- ondconfident course and (with were different glad to bestudents) part of their8 May time 2014. in Since BIGSAS, many it ofwas the a alumgreat ating even closer by creating a P-Semi- with their topic and in order to com the dance workshop. Before the sec- reunion between them and their con- nar ) have been cooper bineSo, it in with November the programme 2014, there for was the and during their last two years) called presentation day. wantedbegan, he feedback gave the from students them. the possi known only through emails. Besides (a pratical seminar for students in bility to ask him questions and he also tact persons, some of whom were students have engaged in activities guesta Workshop the students at the invited secondary the BIGSAS school, th grade and this - that“Africa show in the Bayreuth”. existence Since and closeness then the supported by BIGSAS members. As a timeIn even the secondboys joined part, the there girls were in the regular postgraduate funding, theof Africa in/and with Bayreuth. They Hedemann, who gave a talk followed students from the 8 ingalumni exchange were informedfunding schemes of other of post the have been to several meetings with by2013 an Journalistinteresting Award discussion winner about Philipp re- vice (DAAD), and the Federal Ministry the group to a delicious dinner. DAAD.doc, research As Germany’s cooperation, biggest and funding teach BIGSAS senior and junior fellows, as the workshop. Luis Sala, who is not for Education and Research (BMBF). On 7 May 2014, the group visited institution for international academ- well as with BIGSAS guests. They have only a professional dancer but also There, they got first-hand information- the German Research Foundation ics, the DAAD was not new to all the also visited the new Iwalewahaus and theporting BIGSAS in Africa. administration team had andan experiencedthen starting dance with the teacher, moves. kept In on research funding possibilities both (DFG). “The DFG is the mother of The P-Seminar group Fashion and thisto his course, routine the byboys doing were a very warm-up keen for Welcomedexperienced at academics the Alexander and schol von BIGSAS”, quipped Dymitr Ibriszimow, - - to learn how to dance. The students ars and young scholars and postdocs.- Dean of BIGSAS, in his description of couragedalumni. Cay the Etzold, alumni Head to make of Section use of have been to the Cinema Africa! film- bicanorganised dancer a dance came workshop to the school with Luisand were glad to be guided into the world the relationship between BIGSAS and thefor Easternservices andoffered Southern by the Africa DAAD en as tures.festival The and students’ the BIGSAS task is Festivalto create of a Sala on 21 October 2014. The Mozam- formerHumboldt vice-secretary Foundation bygeneral the secre and Thethe DFG. alumni BIGSAS were is warmlyfunded bywelcomed the DFG - African and African-Diasporic Litera currenttary general, member Enno of the Aufderheide, council of andthe byas partAnnette of theSchmidtmann, Excellence Initiative.Head of demic and research careers. gave two groups of students the pos of dance by Luis Sala. they face the next phase in their aca 30 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 31 BIGSAS

Settling in? The Iwalewahaus now at home in the new building

High quality music time: BIGSAS & The new contact-zone in the heart of the city goes operational

Police Department, Upper Franconia TEXT Ulf Vierke loan basis. Without the new storage PHOTO Katharina Greven fitting adjustment to the needs of an- BIGSAS associated junior fellow, Frank K. Hukporti, plays with the Orchestra art space and a university venue. In facilities, preserving this donation - May 2014, the second floor contain Gunkwould collection not have beenillustrates possible. that As it anis of the Police Department, Upper Franconia ing the offices was completed: 70 % of example, the donation of the Kleine- itsOn new 4 November building 2013,on Wölfelstraße the Iwalewa 2, 2014,the offices the exhibition were already and inconference use since shell that grows but also the content. TEXT & PHOTOS BIGSAS haus officially received the keys to February 2014. Renovated in July- not only the Iwalewahaus’ wrap and the Ghanaian Police Band in Accra. metres away from its former home on - of police in Ghana and a member of- 95444 Bayreuth. Located just 100 room on the ground floor offer facili- Another major aspect of this change - sure activity; it is food for the soul. He 2 ties for conferences and film projec is a new corporate design that the - studiedFor him, musicmusic isand more vocal than studies. just a leiIn Münzgasse 9, the new building offers tions including high-end mediaCity Talks equip, a Iwalewahaus developed together After BIGSAS’ visit to the headquar 2014, he defended his PhD thesis on exhibitions,2.300m of spaceart collections, distributed archives, on four ment.series Theof monthly first event lectures hosted on wasvarious the with the Berlin-based Acapulco- XII:ters 22)of the and Upper a football Fanconian match Police against De - flours. This enormous space is used for- University of Bayreuth group of designers. The new design partment in October 2012 (see NAB is already flaring up on new post - the topic “Military Band: A Perspec- staff offices, seminars and conferenc- topics of broader public interest. With ers and programme folders. The new tivitiesthe Police of these team two in Septemberinstitutions 2013con- guagetive from that Ghana”. links the Ghanaian star of lengees. Constructed to be renovated as a bank to suit and the office new this prelude to the official opening in- corporate design and other smaller (see NAB XIII: 34), the outreach ac Music is that international lan- needs.building, The the renovation house posed work quite started a chal May 2015, the Iwalewahaus already- and bigger new publicity and image- - nian amateurs fulfilled some aspects of its new char objects will be presented together on lowtinued of BIGSAS, in 2014. was In Aprilinvited 2014, by the Frank Po- formilitary more music contacts, and thegiven Upper that Franco since Iwalewahaus also moved into the new andacter the as cityan art of space,Bayreuth a university and its citi in- 30 May 2015 when the new Iwalewa- K. Hukporti, an associated junior fel . Music opened the way building.in December This 2013. move In constituted that month, more the stitute and a bridge between campus haus will be inaugurated. As part of than 1400 moving boxes and about of the city. curatedthe official by inaugurationthe Kenyan artist of the and build cu- lice Department to rehearse with the athe colleague first encounter but a friend in 2013, of Horst Frank Hör K. 2 of furniture and collection ob- zens – i.e. a contact-zone in the heart ing, the first main exhibition will be becameorchestra obvious of the that Police the Department musician, Hukporti has become more than just- - - based at the Iwalewahaus as cura- of Upper Franconia. Very quickly, it 300 m nd Meanwhile – with the support of torialrator Samfellow Hopkins, of the Germanwho is currently Cultural and other members of the police. Be jects. In mid January 2014, therd reno withthe Oberfrankenstiftung a storage system. A substantial – the spa Hukporti, was not just a friend and sides rehearsals, Hör and HukportiKlöße whichvation houses of the officethe archives space onand the then 2 cious former bank safe was equipped orchestra,colleague but Horst a “big Hör, shot”, describes as the head his also spend much of their leisure time does not only train academics but floor started followed by the 3 floor- been stored on rack gliding grids. Foundation. The inauguration will be- of the Upper Franconia Police brass- together: “Frank ate his first also facilitates interaction beyond jor conference and exhibition rooms Thepart German of the paintingcollector, collectionBernd Kleine- has lowingaccompanied suit on by the a series inauguration of concerts, are Polizeireport. was(Upper invited Franconian to celebrate food) Christmas in our the ground floor on which the ma thepresentations following andinternational conferences. confer Fol- colleague’s musical ability in the po house”, Hör points out. In 2013, Frank- fellows in their life trajectories, and work is done by the technical staff of - th lice’s magazine academics, accompanies its junior theare located.Iwalewahaus, A substantial which partallows of thefor fungGunk, in started 2014 which donating are partsnow lodged of his - The question you may be asking is: BIGSAS,together withthis encounter the Police Chiefillustrates, Rein activities. not only cost-saving but also a neatly collection to the Oberfrankensti ences: the 28 Swahili Colloquium why Frank K. Hukporti and the police? hard Kunkel in his home in Würzburg. helps them explore other cultures and from 1-3 June 2015 and the ALA con 32 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 33 Frank K. Hukporti is a superintendent in the Iwalewahaus on a permanent ference on 3-6 June 2015. Adding a new interface to the archive In October 2014, the Mashup the Ar- chive project was closed just to be pursued by the follow up project Inter- facing with the Archive. Sam Hopkins, who has recently been selected as one of Foreign Policy’s 100 leading Global Thinkers of 2014, will be contracted for another six months to curate the show. Working together with Nadine Siegert, deputy director of the Iwalewahaus, he will organise a follow up exhibition to the Mashup the Archive project, focusing on the works developed by the resident artists, and exploring how this practice-based research can Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrom. They pre- further interrogate sented their work “Disrupters, this is the archive. The Disrupter X” at the Schokofabrik. They exhibition will described the performance as a ‘living be accom- Interfacing with the archive maquette’ of an anti-opera, which is panied by part of a body of work they have been a sympo- developing over the past two years. sium, an A follow up project of Mashup the Archive The integral components of this per- artist book formance were objects and artefacts and a newly- from the Iwalewahaus archive, the designed in- TEXT Sam Hopkins, Lena Naumann & but also to make it available to a gen- Mini-festivals: space where the performance took terface for the Nadine Siegert eration of young African artists from place, projected video compositions, digital archive. PHOTO Maimuna Adam which they could develop new works. “YesterdayToday” and electronic sound compositions, sculp- This virtual presence of This practice-based artistic research tural objects and live choreography or the project is a key element of this sec- is very different from, but works in “Disrupters: This is performative movements. Nkosi and ond phase of Mashup the Archive, and Mashup the Archive was an 18-month tandem with, the academic research Disrupter X” Sunstrum explored and investigated the Iwalewahaus is delighted to have project at the Iwalewahaus which was of the Iwalewahaus. It offers new per- the archive by using the anti-opera ap- on board new partners from Kenya, dedicated to activating and making spectives, positions and insights into In October 2013, the first mini-festival proach to re-imagine and re-inscribe the Nairobi-based agency Circle Digital, visible its extensive archive of African artworks in the archive which the aca- took place at the Schokofabrik Bay- alternative narratives of the objects to develop this. Our collective ambi- art, collected over the last 30 years. demic community of the Iwalewahaus reuth. It was marked by the exhibition and the artefacts within the archive. tion is to re-interface the archive, to Working with young, African-based can then reflect on, and make sense “YesterdayToday” by the Maasai Mbili Presented in the enormous skate make the digital archive an accessible artists, the intention was to explore out of, in their research publications artist collective from Nairobi with its hall of the Schokofabrik and accom- and enjoyable means of researching and investigate the rich cultural her- and other discourses. This combina- artists Otieno Gomba and Kevo Stero panied by an opera singer as well as the extensive archive material. itage of the Iwalewahaus archive. At tion of artistic and academic enquiry on 10 October 2013. They were joined skateboarders of the Schoko e.V. who The exhibition will be opened on the heart of the project is the idea is an innovative approach to the study by the Nairobi-based DJ Raf, who was embodied the group of disrupters, 30 May 2015 and will serve as the high- that a key to making this archive both and display of African art today. Two also invited by the Iwalewahaus to the multidimensional performance of light of the inauguration of the new relevant and accessible is to open it mini-festivals have so far been organ- work on the music archive. Mashup the “Disrupters, this is Disrupter X” was Iwalewahaus building on Woelfel- up for artistic as well as academic ised as part of the Mashup the Archive Archive found its sequel in August 2014 followed by a party with two deejays strasse 2. It is generously funded by the research. The essence of the project project, i.e. in October 2013 and Au- with the residency of the two South livestreamed directly from Johannes- German Federal Cultural Foundation is not merely to exhibit this archive gust 2014. African artists, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi and burg: DJ Mma Tseleng and Dion Monti. and the Iwalewahaus Freundeskreis.

34 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 35 Who’s been in the Archive?

Uche Uzorka and Maimuna Adam

TEXT Maimuna Adam & Nadine Siegert PHOTO Maimuna Adam

From July to October 2014, Maimuna Adam, artist and curator from Mozambique, spent a four-month residency at the Iwalewahaus as part of a fellowship awarded by the Alexander Rave Foundation in the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA). The 2014 festival focused on the connection During her residency, Maimuna Adam assisted Uche Uzorka, a visual artist from between visual arts and electronic music Nigeria, who came to Bayreuth for a six week residency in Summer 2015. Uche in Africa, Europe and beyond. Club music Uzorka was the first artist in residence in the new Iwalewahaus building on Wölfel- met classical music; traditional mu- strasse 2. He was invited by the Iwalewahaus and the Goethe Institute Nigeria to sic emerged with con- work with the Iwalewahaus archive and collections. Uzorka decided to work with tempo- postcards and books, transforming them into a series of collages aptly titled „I am the ant that eats away what you keep“ and an installation of jars filled with shredded material as a metaphorical representation of the archive. For Uzorka, r ar y archives, in general, are like “a restricted library“ where valuable information is visualisation, stored, respected and conserved but which is beyond the reach of everyone. high culture connected with In the Iwalewahaus archive, the artist took on the action of slowly, repetitively sub culture. and obsessively shredding and cutting images he found in books and other print The interplay of music and arts both in Africa and in materials on art from Nigeria and other African countries. In doing this, Uzorka Europe is part of a vibrant scene that moves between bloc parties, claims he entertained a varying array of emotions when relating with: 49° Grenzüberschreitungenclubs and galleries. Cultural, spatial and chronical boundaries Festival are negotiated and transcended. What has been strictly separated for decades now increasingly is tied together and leads to challenging symbioses. » photographs of the works from the actual The festival of 2014 posed the questions of what role music from different proveniences and times play in today´s music production, but also how important archive, putting them through the shredding the visual dimension of music is in its representation. machine, and physically seeing them being shred- The festival started on Wednesday, 3 December 2014, with the performance by DJ Spooky (New York), who mixed classical music with turntableism and video up to pieces, knowing that once they get from art. The following day, Alexander Sonnenfeld (Berlin) featured a special edition the state where they are in photographic form, of Iwalewahaus´ regular Music Archive Listening Session. Furthermore he presented the so called Tonspielzeug, a fusion between turntables and the DJ mixer. where they are tangible and can be seen, touched Through the s-notation it is possible to transcribe scratches and cuts into mu- and understood, to the shredded form, there is a sic notes. The Friday’s event was focused on the more academic side of the project. Visitors got the chance to inform themselves on the topic through change – a transformation. « a movie screening and the study-room which offered possible answers to the festival´s questions. Uzorka’s interest in working with this particular archive could be said to relate The outstanding closing of the festival on Saturday was marked by to his experience as a student, when they studied images of works, but with lim- a concert by artist Batida (Lisbon) who´s music is geographically mostly ited, if any, access to the original artworks themselves. Through this he raised the located between Angola and Portugal. His samples move between tradi- problem faced in Nigeria and other countries, where access to the original works tional music and modern dance and club music. The visualisation of his mu- is often limited or impossible. Shredding these images, Uche Uzorka explains, sic through the activation of masks and projections plays an important role “may seem like destruction, a direct crumbling of the original, but in actual fact in his performances. they are now in a different state of being – a different kind of form, a different The project Tafsiri in which diverse traditional music from Africa is sampled kind of storage, a different kind of visual impact.” The works were shown in the showed also the approach of dealing with music from different cultural, geo- context of the exhibition titled “Where were you when I was here?” at Sübkültür, graphical and chronical origins. Simp and Soia from Vienna create music that Forum Phoinix in Bayreuth. ranges between NuSoul, hip hop electronica and beats. The aftershow party Uche Uzorkas residency project was the first outcome of a new cooperation heated up to tunes of local DJ Nasher and Clerk. between the Iwalewahaus and the Goethe Institute Nigeria and will be continued Uche Uzorka, “Where were you when I The 49°Grenzüberschreitungen Festival is closely connected to the history of in 2015 as part of the reopening show “Interfacing with the Archive”, curated by was here?”, Installation (detail), Mashup Iwalewahaus and was first initiated by Ulli Beier, the founder of the Iwalewahaus. Sam Hopkins and supported by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes. the Archive #2, Iwalewahaus 2014.

36 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 37 Collected

A three-part exhibition at the Iwalewahaus

TEXT & Photo Siegrun Salmanian

In 2014, the collection of artworks by Bernd Kleine-Gunk was officially donated to the Oberfrankenstiftung which then passed it on to the Iwalewa- haus on a permanent loan basis. The collection consists of 52 artworks, mostly paintings. Collected out of love and interest for art, the collection finds its origins in the late 1980s when Prof. Dr. med Kleine-Gunk discovered the art worlds in Sub-Saharan Africa during his development work in Zimbabwe. The collection, which began with Shona sculptures, grew enormously the following years, when the collector got in touch with the artists and the galleries. These modernist artworks have now found their way from private keeping to the public and academic environment of the Iwalewahaus. Until the 1990s, African modern and contemporary art did not play an important role in the European art world and were only displayed in eth- nographic museums. Collectors like Jean Pigozzi and Bernd Kleine-Gunk still continued collecting these arts according to their own taste. Both were and still are fascinated by artists like George Lilanga, for developing his own unique formal language. Collected explores the possibilities of curating a collection. In the donated collection, nine artists who live(d) in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, are presented. The exhibition offers different perspectives: The first part of Collected displays four individual artists and a selection of their works in a classical group show. It covers paintings by Jak Katarikawe, Richard Onyango, Sane Wadu and sculptures by Abdallah Salim. The second part of Collected, entitled “(Un)sichtbarkeit von Archiv und Depot”, rethinks the process of taking stock and archiving. What information is behind or within the paintings? How could one make a collection visible and accessible (without exhibiting the paintings)? “Die Sammlung Kleine-Gunk” is the subtitle of the third and last show with and about these works. It questions the structure and coevalness of these images by investigating styles and gestures (following Aby Warburg’s principle) and pointing out the richness or even abundance of the collected whole. In addition to these, there will be a curator’s talk, a launch of the exhibition booklet, talks with the collector and art historians during the exhibition. The exhibition is part of the project “Art and Curatorial Studies” in the masters programme “Culture and Society in Africa” curated by Siegrun Salmanian. 'Family Group' by Jak Katarikawe

38 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 39 The Iwalewahaus’ ‘Object of the Month’ series

Everything from exhibitions to ‘Music Archive Listening Sessions’

In a new exhibition series, the Iwalewa- tion by private donors. The variety of chive of the Iwalewahaus. Musicians, haus highlights particular objects from objects is intended to represent the LPs, songs and genres will be pre- its archive. The archive does not only wide range of art and popular culture sented in the Music Archive Listening host visual arts but also a wide col- of the different collections. Every ob- Sessions. The music archive consists of lection of African textiles and video ject is equipped with a card that con- works by African artists and compos- film productions from Nigerian “Nol- tains background information about ers since the mid-20th century. Driven lywood” and horror movies from Gha- its motif, the production context and by the need to collect and document na. The monthly changing objects are its artist or author. Every object is cho- musical heritages, the archive focuses taken from the different collections sen carefully by an employee of the on the development of modern genres the Iwalewahaus is in charge of and Iwalewahaus, or a visitor or an artist like pop music, Christian and Islamic are exhibited in the foyer. The exhib- in residence. It is their opportunity to music as well as musical theatre. ited objects belong to collections like present their favourite work to the The Listening Sessions not only offer that of the Iwalewahaus founder Ulli public. an exclusive insight into the treasures Beier, and consist of modernist paint- From October 2014 on, the visual of the archive but also provide artists ings and graphic works from Nigeria, object of the month has been accom- in residence working with the music ar- Australia and the Pacific Region or the panied by an audio or sound object chive the opportunity to present their more recent extensions of the collec- (e.g. music) from the African music ar- findings.

“Diplomats” by Obiora Udechukwu 1979. ink on paper

Udechukwu (born 1946 in Onitsha, Nigeria) was artist in residence at the Iwalewahaus already during the 1980s and is a main representative of the Nsukka painting school.

40 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 41 Schlingensief – Wagner – Africa Back home – via Bayreuth

A research and exhibition project William Bloke Modisane’s writings taken back home to South Africa

TEXT Fabian Lehmann TEXT & Photo Katharina Fink PHOTO Kéré Architecture / DEVA-Team Lucie Ameloot, Sophia Schwager Operndorf Africa and Kristina Udechukwu with the estate of Bloke Modisane. in Germany, largely unknown to his - immediateIn 1986, a SouthGerman African environment. author died - This is striking if we take into account tion on the notion of homecoming in As the German film directorI Chrisknow, the time before he moved to Germany, Ittoph was SchlingensiefMe (1960-2010) pro i.e. about a decade before his death claims in his autobiography, - - labelsSophiatown, Homecoming the suburb and Repatriation in which , the idea to create an “opera- rica. He was, however, known to a Modisane had worked and lived. The village” in Africa is strongly connect (1976), and his place of origin in Af However, the label Home is rather ed to his work at the Bayreuth Fes or interested in, the South African usedare often here used because for aan project easy routelike this. for tival (BayreutherParsifal for four Festspiele). seasons It from was literaryfew people scene. who This were man familiar was William with, heritage is chosen, a curated re-lo- here that he staged. Richard Wagner’s duringopera this time motivated him to de- 2004 to 2007 The experiences made Bloke Modisane, one of the famous- formercation inPresident the contemporary of South Africa, without at- The completion of the small hospital is the latest achievement writers of the so-called DRUM Decade their activation. Kgalema Motlanthe, at the African Opera Village in Ziniaré, Burkina Faso. becomevelop his a own whole vision village. of an The alternative African in South Africa. These DRUM writ Cultural and Heritage Centre. Operaopera houseVillage in Africa – which should criticalers and and journalists inventive used writing, a complex mostly tended the opening in the Sophiatown Siegfried and Winifred Wagner. - innovative genre being a mélange of searcher with the Bayreuth Academy was finally founded in of Advanced African Studies, facilitat- The exhibition asked questions 2010 in the community of Ziniaré in andgrounds an exhibition in 2015, ain publication Summer 2016. con in English, and predominantly about like: What does Bloke Modisane have Burkina Faso, some 30 kilometres andOne function of the of questionsAfrica and the Wagner project in taining the findings of the conference- political and social inequality in then shouldto say inwe our translate time? How the relevant anger of are a Iwalewahausaway from the is capital investigating Ouagadougou. Schlin- Schlingensief’sraises revolves oeuvre. around theWhat presence would apartheid South Africa. This brought ed the transportation of these papers writerhis works known and thoughtsmostly for today? his work How Within a larger project, the- Additionally, we also plan to organ- Modisane, like most of his colleagues, andto South the National Africa in Archives cooperation in South with sic, as well as his fascination with the lyise known workshops outside in KenyaGermany, and our Burkina over- into political trouble. He fled South the Department of Arts and Culture- gensief’s approach to Wagner’s mu happen if Wagner’s operas were to Faso. Since Schlingensief is only bare Africa due to political pressure and - in the 1950s into critical energy for- be moved, relocated or transplanted censorship in the 1970s. - Africa. The process of making the pa signedtoday? as How an ongoing do we identify conversation, with his as » My work in Bayreuth, the staging in Manaus as well, ten Asin partexile of were my PhDdiscovered project in within Ger- pers accessible to academics and art- ‘situation’ and confront it?” It is de BIGSAS, Modisane’s articles writ ists has now been finalised. - are, of course, connected to the idea of building an To celebrate the arrival of Modis- a travelling exhibition. The next stop opera in Africa « (Christoph Schlingensief) digitised,many. With in theorder support to guarantee of DEVA their and ane’s papers in South Africa, the So in Germany is Bayreuth. Entitled “(In) the Iwalewahaus, these papers were- FireTown Crew, an international co- A Way Back Home”, the exhibition will operation of youths at the University be on show in the context of the ALA African continent. This investigation into a context where Wagner is widely preservation. I have now, as a re of Johannesburg, curated an exhibi conference, 3-6 June 2015. brings together Schlingensief, Wagner and Africa and is not the initiative of After retro- all objective is to find out how African- the Iwalewahaus alone. Indeed, from unknown and where the opera has no tactsartists have and already intellectuals been made appreciate with or a different tradition? his oeuvre. For these workshops, con- asspective well as posthumous several book exhibitions releases that on wa, founder of the Zimbabwean In- installationsthe 1990s on, make Schlingensief’s both Africa films, and allowedSchlingensief for an in overview Berlin and of his New oeuvre, York, stitutecultural of activists Vigital Artslike Sakiin Harare Mafundik and Wagnerstage productions, a subject of performances discussion by and in- it is now time to take a closer look at

The Berlin Republic or the BothMartin showed Zongo, interestdirector inof the theatreoeuvre Ringterweaving in Africa the two. For instance, his Wagnerthose two and significant Africa. topics that have andC.I.T.O the in unorthodox Ouagadougou, ideas Burkina of this Faso. Ger- stage play been part of his work for decades:- with Africa, and(1999) his represents The African his Twininitial Towers attempts to confront Wagner The project, “Schlingensief – Wag- andman Africa artist is whothat he himself was never proclaimed able to film ternationalner – Africa,” guests will be from realised various in threeback- reallythat what understand he finds greatboth ofabout them. Wagner (2005), shot in Namibia, phases: an initial conference with in includes protagonists like the couple 42 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 43 GUESTS GUESTS Maimuna Adam

- From July to November 2014, Maimuna Adam worked as a curatorial trainee at the Iwalewahaus. Her residency was financed by a Rave Stipend from the Insti tut für Auslandskontakte. Maimuna Adam is an artist and curator from Maputo, Mozambique. She completed her BA in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria, South Africa in 2008, and has participated in several group exhibitions, among them, the TDM Bienal’09 and Temporary Occupations 20.10, the VI Biennial of Art and Culture of São Tomé e Príncipe and MUVART Bienal’12. In Maputo, she- teaches drawing at the Instituto Superior de Artes e Cultura since 2010. Her artistic research focuses on personal and historical narratives related to travel Bayreuth,ling and migration. she worked She closely explores with notions the Iwalewahaus of identity and team memory and curated in relation the ex to- hibitionher mixed “Where heritage, were combining you when fictionalI was here and real narratives. At the University of

” with the Nigerian artist Uche Uzorka- at the Forum Phoinix. She was also part of the project team of the “Mashup the Archive Festival #2”. In 2015 and 2016, she will curate a workshop and exhibi tion project in Maputo in cooperation with the Iwalewahaus. Rui Assubuji -

The Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies was happy to welcome vis ual historian Rui Assubuji in Bayreuth. Both a photographer and researcher on visual histories of Mozambique, Rui Assubuji is currently working in European- archives. His academic base is the University of the Western Cape, Bellville, NationalismSouth Africa. and Apart Historiography from doing many photographic exhibitions and internation al projects Assubuji most recently edited the Kronos edition on Mozambique: (with Paolo Israel and Drew Thompson). In Thenjiwe Pamela Phatsimo Bayreuth, Rui Assubuji was involved in the research of the Bayreuth Academy’s Sub-project 5, “Revolution 3.0”. We are looking forward to continued academic exchange and inspiring discussions on the role of images in historiography in Niki Nkosi Sunstrum 2015. Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, visual artist and holder of a BA Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, artist, creative writer and

- Iwalewahausfrom Harvard inUniversity the context and ofan theMFA second from the Mashup School the of researcher, holds an MFA from the Maryland Institute Ronald Bisaso ArchiveVisual Arts festival in New in August York, was 2014. artist Together in residence with Pamela at the College of Art in Baltimore, USA. She is based in Johan Disrupters andnesburg, North South America. Africa. She Sunstrum was invited was forborn a residencyin Mochudi, at – this is Disrupter X that was staged at the Schokofabrik theBotswana Iwalewahaus and grew together up in different with Thenjiwe parts of Nkosi Africa, in Asia the Phatsimo Sunstrum, she developed the piece context of the second Mashup the Archive festival in Au- Ronald Bisaso, a renowned expert on African higher education studies, was- Dis- a guest of the BIGSAS workgroup “Higher Education and Society in Africa” in in Bayreuth on 23 August 2014. Thenjiwe Nkosi was born rupters – this is Disrupter X based on the archive and arts June 2014. He is a Senior Lecturer in the East African School of Higher Educa- in New York and has lived in Harare and Johannesburg- collectiongust 2014. ofThe the two Iwalewahaus. artists created Pamela the performanceSunstrum works tion Studies and Development of Makerere University, Uganda and the project on and off since the early 1990s. Today, she is based in - manager of the capacity building initiative “Strengthening Institutional Capac South Africa. Her work investigates power and its struc ity for Higher Education Leadership and Management in Sub-Saharan Africa”.- tures – political, social, architectural. Her paintings and in the fields of drawing, animation, installation and per During his stay in Bayreuth, he participated in the BIGSAS workgroup panel films have been shown at the Ifa Gallery in Berlin, the- formance. Her work has been shown at the Museum of- “Global Ideas and Local Strategies for the Future: Perspectives on Higher Edu nesburg.South London Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art Contemporary African Diaspora Artists in New York, The “Internationalcation and International collaboration Collaboration as a lever of in change Africa in and higher beyond” education at the governance 2014 VAD in Rio de Janeiro and the Standard Bank Gallery in Johan Kitchen in New York, Room Urban Art Space in Johannes- conference “Future Africa” that took place here in Bayreuth. His talk entitled burg, the Ithuba Arts Gallery in Johannesburg, the FRAC higher education governance in Africa. Together with colleagues in Bayreuth, Gallery in Carquefou, France, and the 2012 Havana Bien in Sub-Saharan Africa” was an important contribution to current debates on nial in Cuba. Her research interests include exploring the higher education. political possibilities of imagining and occupying what they planned future collaboration on the topic of entrepreneurialism in African she calls “Mythologies of the Future.”

44 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 45 GUESTS GUESTS

Chrizell Chürr Juliana Masabo

- Chrizell Chürr, Associate Professor of law at the University of South- Juliana Masabo, Lecturer in the Department of Public Law, University of Dar es Africa, is a Georg Forster Research Fellow of the Alexander von Hum Salaam School of Law, Tanzania, was guest of the Institute of African Studies boldt Foundation at the University of Bayreuth for the period Octo and the Faculty of Law, Business and Economics of the University of Bayreuth ber 2014 to July 2015. Her host is Ulrike Wanitzek, Professor of Law- from August to September 2014. She was hosted by Ulrike Wanitzek. The visit- at the Institute of African Studies and the Faculty of Law, Business took place within the framework of the Tanzanian-German Centre for Eastern and Economics of the University of Bayreuth. Chrizell Chürr com African Legal Studies (TGCL), a cooperation programme between the Universi pleted her LLB and LLM degrees at the University of Pretoria in 2001 ties of Bayreuth and Dar es Salaam sponsored by the German Foreign Office and 2006 respectively, and was admitted as an Attorney of the High through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Juliana Masabo holds Court of South Africa in 2008. In 2012, she obtained her Doctorate in interestsa PhD in Laware in from international the University migration of Cape law Town,(international South Africa, labour an migration LLM and and an law.Law from the University of South Africa. She joined the University of LLB (Hons) from the University of Dar es Salaam. Her academic and research South Africa in 2009, and has been teaching courses in commercial- refugee law), citizenship and human rights law. She has published in the fields of child law, family law and educa tion law. She received the Developing (Women) Researcher Award of the University of South Africa in 2013. Tom Michael Mboya Firmin Gouba - - Tom Michael Mboya, Head of the Department of Literature, Theatre and Film- - Studies, Moi University Eldoret, Kenya, was a visiting scholar of BIGSAS in No Firmin Gouba is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Com vember and December 2014. As a Professor of Literature at the BIGSAS part munication and Journalism at the University of Ouagadougou, Burki- ner university in Moi, Kenya, Tom Mboya, besides the usual activities of visiting na Faso, since 1997. He was head of the department for ten years from- scholars, also took part in administrative tasks here in Bayreuth in his status as 2002 to 2012. He was guest of the Institute of African Studies in Janu a partner university representative. The cooperation between BIGSAS and its ary 2014. He was invited by Ute Fendler, Professor of Romance Liter partner universities allows for such administrative cooperation as well. He said ature here in Bayreuth, within the scope of a research project on the studyat the withinend of BIGSAS,his stay: because “I already they had came a hint back of to the Kenya significance transformed. of the Now work I have that production and consumption of cinematographic films in Burkina BIGSAS does by simply observing young colleagues who have had the chance to Faso. Firmin Gouba received his PhD in language and communication- from the University of Rouen, France in 1992. He currently teaches seen the reason why that happened and my stay has been an eye-opener.” - journalsinformation like science Intercultural and communication, Communication public(2011) relations and Globalisation, and mar Tom Mboya’s main areas of research are East African Literatures in English- ketingCommunication in Ouagadougou. Practices He (2011). has published His current several research articles infocuses scientific on and the popular culture of the Luo of Kenya and Tanzania. He focuses on the re- media and society, technological change and behaviour change, and lationship between literature and history as well as issues of postcolonial Ken inyan journals identities like in Postcolonial the literary Text works, Muziki of Marjorie, and Journal Oludhe of AfricanMacgoye, Cultural Ebrahim Studies Hus. sein, Micere Mugo, Okot p’Bitek among others. His publications have appeared public relations in the traditional environment. Gastor Mapunda Prosper Kompaoré Gastor Mapunda, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics Prosper Kompaoré was invited by Ute Fendler, Professor of Romance at the University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, was a post-doctoral fellow of the- Literature, through the Institute of African Studies for three months, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for the second time in the Winter- January-March 2014. While in Bayreuth, he lectured on varieties of- reuthSemester International 2014-2015. Graduate Here at the School University of African of Bayreuth, Studies (BIGSAS).he was guest His of research the De theatre in Africa and established links with other departments of the interestspartment includeof African contact Linguistics linguistics I and alsoand anaddress associated forms senior in Ngoni, fellow a of Southern the Bay University of Bayreuth. He holds a PhD in dramatics from the Univer sity of Paris 3 (1977) and is currently a Professor of dramatic art at the University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. He is an expert in the es-Salaam,Tanzanian language.has taught language-related courses at various levels and institu- poetics of development theatre. He was the founding director of the Gastor Mapunda, who holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Dar- Atelier Théâtre Burkinabé (1978) and of the Festival International things, on classroom interaction in Kiswahili, language attitudes, code-switch- de Théâtre pour le Développement (1988). In addition to that, he was ingtions and of relatedhigher learningissues. He in has Tanzania. collaborated His current with colleagues research focuses, in African among linguistics other also the director of the l’Institut des Peuples Noirs (1988-1997) in Burkina Faso. He has decades of experience as a stage director and as a prolific writer. He is author of many plays as well as scholarly works at Gothenburg, Sweden. In the near future, he will complete a Ngoni-Swahili- on the importance and societal role of theatre in Africa. English Dictionary on which he has been working for some time now. 46 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 47 GUESTS GUESTS

Uche Uzorka

In July 2014, the Nigerian artist Uche Uzorka was invited for a residency at the Iwalewahaus. He is a mixed media artist who lives and works in Lagos. Uzorka graduated in 2001 from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, majoring in painting. His practice incorporates painting, collage, cutting and pasting, charcoal and ink drawing with a focus on processes of urban street culture. His Iwalewahaus- sentedresidency the was exhibition the first “ Whereoutcome were of a you new when cooperation I was here? between the Iwalewahaus and the Goethe Institute Nigeria. During his stay in Bayreuth, Uche Uzorka pre ” at the Forum Phoinix in cooperation with the Bayreuth-based cultural association Kültürclüb. The- exhibition was curated by curatorial trainee Maimuna Adam and the artist Anja Zeilinger. The show was a preview of his engagement with the Iwalewahaus ar chive and collection, which will be continued in 2015. Uzorka sees the archive, in general, as “a restricted library” where information is stored, valued, respected and conserved. Through the process of cutting up images that are part of the artworks of the Iwalewahaus archive, the artist raised questions related not From left Irina Turner, Dianne Shober, Rémi Tchokothe, Clarissa Vierke becauseonly to our of limited day-to-day access relationship to the original with works. and consumption of the works stored in the archive, but also the problems artists in Nigeria and other countries face Vincent Ambe Tanda Luis Carlos Dianne Shober - Patraquim - Vincent Ambe Tanda, Associate Professor of Linguistics, pioneer Head of the The In May 2014, Dianne Shober, Professor, of African Litera Department of Linguistics and contact person of the partnership cooperation ture and Head of the English Department at the Univer between the University of Buea and the University of Bayreuth, was guest of poet, playwright and journalist from Mozambique, sity of Fort Hare, South Africa visited the Department Afrikanistik II (Dymitr Ibriszimow) in June 2014. Vincent Ambe Tanda has been Luis Carlos Patraquim, visited the Bayreuth Academy in of African Language Studies in Bayreuth. Her research teaching at the University of Buea since 1994. He completed his MSc. (1987) 2014. He was guest of the sub-project “Revolution 3.0”, areas are South African literature, especially the works and his PhD (1993) in computational linguistics at the University of Manchester- which focuses on image productions about revolutions, of SindiweDuring herMagona, stay in literary Bayreuth, history, she gave feminist a talk theory on “South and tics.Institute He has of Scienceco-edited and recent Technology. titles such His fieldsas Language, of teaching Literature and expertise and Social include Dis- social change and utopia. With colleagues in Bayreuth, popular culture. - coursegenerative in Africa syntax, linguistic theory, machine translationThe Bafaw and Languageapplied linguis (A10) Patraquim worked on a contribution to a publication - about the role of Mozambiquan cinema, particularly- African literary history” at the Africanist research Col (Bamenda: Agwecams, 2009) and looking at the politics of images of the National Institute loquium. Within the framework of the BIGSAS Salong- (Bamenda: Langaa, 2011). His current research focuses on the documentation for Cinema (INAC), in the revolution of FRELIMO move espräche, she gave a presentation on “Women in higher of endangered Cameroonian Grassfield Bantu languages. In this regard, he gave- ment and Samora Machel. Patraquim also took part in education in South Africa” and engaged in a lively discus- a lecture on “Worldviews and proverbs in the human-nature relationship: An the workshop on “Utopia” organised by the sub-project sion with BIGSAS experts in the field. Students of the BA ecolinguistic exploration of Grassfield Bantu proverbs” at the Afrikanistik Re “Revolution 3.0” of the Bayreuth Academy. and MA study programme “Afrikanische Sprachen, Lit search Colloquium. anderaturen how itund affects Kunst” writers here in in South Bayreuth Africa. benefitted from Kitso Lynn Lelliott her insights into the South African publishing landscape Benjamin Soares long-termDiane Shober’s student stayand offeredstaff exchange a good opportunitybetween the for De a- - fruitful exchange of ideas from which the concept for a gust 2014 at the Bayreuth Academy, working on her re- - - Researcher Kitso Lynn Lelliott spent the month of Au partments African Languages, English and Comparative Benjamin Soares, Senior Researcher and Chair of the Researcher’s Assembly - Studies at Fort Hare and the Department of African Lan at the African Studies Centre Leiden, holds a PhD in anthropologyth from century North to search on figures such as ghosts within images; and how- guage Studies at the University of Bayreuth emerged. In Western University. He is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in Africa. His the visible within the image elicits other possible visibil spring 2015 already, Irina Turner (Afrikanistik I) will be research focuses particularly on religious life from the early 20 ities. The conceptual reference in her work – both as art teaching at Fort Hare University within the framework the present. In his recent work, he looks at the connections between changing ist and writer – is the ‘near-by’. While here in Bayreuth, of the DAAD-short term lecturing programme. modalities of religious expression, different modes of belonging, and emergent Kitso Lynn Lelliott worked with Katharina Fink on an social imaginaries in colonial and postcolonial West Africa, especially in Mali. ongoing art and research project entitled “Futures of the In addition to his ongoing research on religion, the public sphere, and media, he past” whichth focuses on people from all over the world- is also interested in contemporary Muslim public intellectuals in Africa. During whotion was worked realised at the in court the New of Markgräfin Palace of Bayreuth. Wilhelmine This in his visit to the Institute of African Studies Bayreuth, he offered a workshop for the 18 century. As part of this project, video installa BIGSAS junior fellows, in which he presented his latest projects on Religion in 48 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 49 Mali, and mentored the BIGSAS junior fellow Ahmed Khalid Ayong. project will be continued in 2015. REPORTS REPORTS

Future Africa

VAD International Conference in Bayreuth

TEXT & Photos DORIS LÖHR

conferenceris Löhr (Bayreuth addressed Academy). issues like the ambivalentThe papers images presented on Africa, during their the Studies Association in Germany (VAD)From 11-14held her June biannual 2014, theconference African - - respective prevalence and outreach from the perspective of diverse aca at the University of Bayreuth. The re demic disciplines as well as the impact- search project “Future Africa - Visions of such images on social development. - Selbstinszenierung: Konstruktion von was organised by young scholars from in Time” of the Bayreuth Academy of- Under the guiding theme “Future Afri Hauhs) gnon, Barbara Polak) Geschlechteridealen und -hierarchien Advanced African Studies inspired futureca”, sub-themes of Africa likewere development extensively disand- roads” (Michael Bollig, Michael sumption in Africa” (Isaie Dou unter Studierenden der Universität therebythe scientific for mutual committee enrichment to the of con the cussed.change, projectionsThese discussions and visions also of took the Dar es Salaam, and the University of Bayreuth, namely debatesference themeon ‘Africa’s “Future future’. Africa”, Bayreuth hoping into account those visions that are “Bayreuth Academy - Future “Visions of theatre: Future in/of her PhD dissertation, The formation Lena Kroeker, Renzo Baas, Johanna was again chosen as the venue of the “VisionsAfrica - Visionsand re-visions:in Time” (Susan The African performing arts” (Julius of a victim’s subjectRita position Kesselring in today’s for Sarre and Katharina Fink. - 2014 conference, after the VAD Con- within African countries or that were Arndt, Achim von Oppen) Heinicke, Christine Matzke) South Africa: Embodiment and juridifi- The conference was spiced with a powerful in concrete configurations “Future concept Africa – A mix- cation of apartheid era violence (Basel, rich cultural programme,Speculative which Voyages in the future’. quest(ion) of the future in the- tumba)of European and African views” cluded, inter alia, the projection of the ference took place here in 1998 under powerful in the sense of a ‘history of- uelworks Ndogo) of Ngũgĩ” (Gilbert Ndi “Beyond(Katharina a Greven,rock and Yvette a hard Mu The four round-tables of the con- short film series Stories of the theme “Africa and Globalisation”.- sues in African studies and neigh- “TransformationsShang, Tirop Peter Simatei,of Islamic Sam 2013). - Cairo’sand exhibitions Drivers - bySandok Frank el Marshall, Donia. The as About 500 researchers and scholars In 45 panels, current research is conferencewell as the concluded performance with of a musical from Africa, Europe, and the USA in - place?” (Antje Daniel) Africa:ference focused principally on con tables,bouring cultural disciplines and artistic were discussedsessions. mann)knowledge in Africa: Media” 11th temporary socio-political issues in in lively debates, workshops, round- (Britta Frede, Rüdiger Seese The conference was opened on the- “Contesting the modernity of highlight by “The Ghana Bigshots” by scholars from Bayreuth and their June 2014 with a reception at the who had their first major appearance The following panels were organised “Religious pathways to better Bayreuth City Hall. Brigitte Merk-Er down-townin Europe in Bayreuth. an outstanding, dance- world: “Contestedfutures” (Katrin legitimacy Langewiesche, and state Hallbe, Mayor on the of eve Bayreuth, of the conference.welcomed the In Bayreuth)witchcraft in Africa” (Hosts: packed concert at Das Zentrum in research partners from around the Eva Spies) conference participants at the City “DebatingMagnus Echtler African & agriculture: Leo Igwe, funding by various institutions in- “Transmedial migration of im- Current contestations and fu- The conference benefitted from ages: Imaginations of revolution power in Africa” (Asebe Regassa, the following three days, the campus- - the Bayreuth International Graduate Alzbeta Svablova) of the University of Bayreuth became er & Peter Dannenberg, Köln) Schoolcluding: of the African University Studies of Bayreuth,(BIGSAS), - “African“Traveling movements Africa” (Kurt in globali Beck,- the centre of multidisciplinary dis ture challenges” (Clemens Grein Bayreuth Academy of Advanced Af- and future in different media” Rami Wadelnour) Bayreuthcussions. Afterin charge the official of international opening by “Visions(Ute Fendler, of the Ulf future Vierke, in the Katha his- the Vice President of the University of “Digitale Afrikaarchive und –- rina Fink, Nadine Siegert) “Aufsation dem and Weg: transnationalisation” Zukunftsvorstel- - furt)bibliotheken” (Hauke Dorsch, rican Studies, The German Research (Bettina Engels, Melanie Müller) versity,affairs, AnnaSokoto, Köhler, Nigeria) Fatima gave Adamu the Mainz & Richard Kuba, Frank- Halle,Foundation the Global (DFG), South the Centre Max Planckof the Whyte)tory of Africa and the Atlantic” - (Sociology, Usmanu Dan Fodiyo Uni Institute for Social Anthropology in- (Achim von Oppen, Christine- lungen und -perspektiven von - Bekolo,“Speculative Cameroon, voyages”: Daniel An AfriKojo - tensively discussed new research “GlobalKindern” ideas (Tabea and Häberlein, local strategies Jean keynote lecture on the provocative canist intervention” (Jean-Pierre University of Cologne, The Oberfrank “Uncertainty and future” (Valer nett Martin, Christian Ungruhe) outstandingtitle “Is Africa young too poor scholars to drive on its Afri fu- Bayreuth,enstiftung, and the TheInstitut British für AuslandsAmerican conference. The conference was or- “Theie Hänsch, futures Lena of theKroeker, African Carsten (mid- - ture?” At the opening ceremony, two Gunkel,Schrade, Bayreuth) Germany/US, Maha Tobacco,beziehungen Bayreuth. in Stuttgart, To them the all, City the of topics during the three days of the Mildner) for the future: Perspectives on Scholar’s Award of the VAD: Annika Maamoun, Egypt, & Henriette local organising committee as well as Tadessehigher education” Woldegeorgis) (Akiiki Babye can studies were awarded the Young Preceding the conference was the the VAD say thank you for the extraor- ganised by Georg Klute, chairperson- “Conservationdle) classes” (Tabeaat the Scharrer, cross- siza, Christine Scherer, Emnet- thesis, Zwischen Zuschreibungen und of the VAD, Hanna Lena Reich (both Florian Stoll) Lehmann (FU-Berlin) for her MA 50 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 51 Department of Anthropology) and Do “Rural remigration and con Young Scholars’ meeting of the VAD. It dinary support. REPORTS REPORTS

- ion law held at students advice and ofpointed. regional He integration will pay particular law and anchor atten counsellingof Tanzania in offers all areas re- of Bayreuth, the tion to German and European aspects lating to their studies or their the University- While the core curriculum is future careers. He also holds cludes visits to these in the programme. - programme in - Court in Bayreuth, taught by staff from the University of- seminars to help students ac the Regional High Dar es Salaam School of Law, there are quireBy theorganising professional conferences skills need with extra courses with a comparative le ed for leadership positions. - the German Federal gal component that are taught jointly- Parliament, the Foreign- by professors from Bayreuth and Dar renowned participants, the TGCL con Office and the Ministry of- businesses Salaam. administration The programme and is econom round- Africantributes toCommunity the study andlaw. development These con- stitutionsJustice in Berlin;in Brussels and alsowhich to enables a num The TGCL Autumn University group ed off by interdisciplinary courses in ferences,of the relatively which are young held fieldat least of once East ber of European Union-related in at the Foreign Office in Berlin. from Bayreuth. A German language every year, have earned for the Centre courseics which is held are in taught which by students professors ac- - students to make direct comparisons between the European Union and the and learn about Germany and its the reputation of being the leading in East African Community. quire basic knowledge of the language stitution on EAC law. TGCL leadership TGCL: Legal training for future Study trips culture. An experienced judge of the Court of Appeal of the United Republic leaders in Eastern Africa - The TGCL management consists of the- moteEach dialogue LLM class within undertakes the region a study and following persons: Ulrike Wanitzek, totrip become within Eastfamiliar Africa with in order legal tostruc pro- Project Leader (University of Bay- TEXT Johannes Döveling & (DAAD), within the framework of the substantially to the networking of the reuth), Benedict T. Mapunda, Project Ulrike Wanitzek Centre. Coordinator (University of Dar es Sa PHOTOS Yannick Tylle & TGCL - travelledtures in other to Arusha, EAC Partner Kigali States.and Nai In- laam) and Johannes Döveling, Project ‘African Excellence’ programme. The the past few years, the students have Manager (University of Bayreuth). thematic focus of the TGCL is on re- Academic programme The management cooperates closely- gional integration law, with special robi, where they participated in talks- with the leadership of the University- The TGCL and its emphasis on the law of the East Afri with high-ranking representatives of wa,of Dar the es Associate Salaam School Dean ofTulia Law, Ackson espe can Community (EAC). Accordingly, lawthe faculties. judiciary, the ministries respon cially the Dean Bonaventure I. Rutin students TGCL students are drawn from all five The TGCL programmes lead to the sible for EAC affairs and the deans of- Partner States of the EAC and South studentsaward of attend LLM anduniversity PhD degrees courses on by andIn the the Headcoming of years the Departmentthe Centre will of Sudan. So far, a total of 97 students- the University of Dar es Salaam. LLM- An annual summer school in Eu- Public Law Khoti C. Kamanga. The Tanzanian-German Centre for (50 females and 47 males) with partial rope (also sometimes organised in order to guarantee its continued ex- Eastern African Legal Studies (TGCL) or full scholarships have been admit topicsand international including law human of economic rights intelaw. autumn) gives the students an oppor implement a sustainability concept in Africa.offers Master’s The Centre and PhDwas programmes founded in ted to TGCL programmes. Of these, 23 gration, East African Community law tunity to compare legal institutions in- funding. in law for future leaders in Eastern- thewere number admitted of tograduates the PhD programmeis growing, dissertation. In order to ensure suc- East Africa and Europe. In addition to istence independently of the current sities of Dar es Salaam and Bayreuth, and 74 to the LLM programme. As cessThey inare their required studies, to write students a Master’s also lectures on German and European Un 2008 as a joint project of the Univer attend courses in research methodol- alumni are playing an increasingly ogy with individual tutoring. A DAAD arising from their cooperation in the important role. They participate in Lillian Mongella (Tanzania) and Anatole Nahayo (Burundi) after the University of Dar es Salaam field of law studies. It is funded by the TGCL conferences and in the selection - graduation ceremony 2014. German Foreign Office through the of new students. Many of them work long-term lectureship was recently German Academic Exchange Service in prominent positions and contribute created to which Tomasz Milej was ap

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From Mbari Mbayo to the Iwalewa-Haus The Bavarian Research Institute Celebrating the estate of Ulli and Georgina Beier of African Studies (BRIAS)

TEXT Sigrid Horsch-Albert & - Katharina Greven - note address: “The beginning of the New Perspectives for Research and Transfer of Knowledge PHOTO Iwalewahaus siblehaus andfor digitising the Digital the Research-Archive documents and eral topic of the conference in his key makingof African them Studies accessible (DEVA) for are future respon re- TEXT Franz Kogelmann & GIC Africa - new contacts between the engineer- Oshogbo School.” PHOTO Peter Kolb The conference dealt with the con- The conference had a broad scope sciences,as well as social more sciencesthan 30 andAfrican-cen humani- search projects. as can be seen in the panels: “Mbari- tred disciplines in the fields of cultural- ing Itand is culturalvery clear sciences”, even underlinedtoday that The international conference “From- - Mbayo and Oshogbo: A historical President Stefan Leible. erke,Mbari Sigrid Mbayo Horsch-Albert, to the Iwalewahaus” Katharina (18- cept of the Mbari Clubs in Nigeria in review”, “Iwalewahaus: and “The The idea begin of beenties. Theengaging Ingolstadt in innovative University technolo of Ap- 20 October 2013), organised by Ulf Vi the 1960s and the support and influ nings and the present”, “Art patrons “Something unique in Germany.” giesplied in Sciences the area on of renewablethe other hand energies has Africa is an aspiring continent. Co- ofences the Iwalewahaus,of art patrons in theseAfrica Clubs on them. and and their archives” These were the words of Ludwig for more than ten years and seeks to operations in academia, economy and Greven and Kristina Udechukwu, was The influence of Ulli Beier, the founder the Iwalewahaus today.” The range- andSpaenle, Arts, Bavarian referring State to the Minister Bavarian for culture will thus gain in importance. one of the last events inside the “old” searchers,of participants journalists, was also art broadcollectors and Education, Cultural Affairs, Science “Another central task for BRIAS will multidisciplinary, and included re- Research Institute of African Studies and famous artists like Obiora Ude (BRIAS),The new who institute attended is the borne institute’s out of chukwu, Muraina Oyelami and Nike foundation on 6 February 2014. - Davies-Okundaye, who discussed the - idea and history of Mbari Mbayo and the cooperation between the Univer the different workshops organised in- sity of Bayreuth, University of Würz relation to it in Oshogbo. In this vein, burg, Ingolstadt University of Applied- Beier,the artistic was discussed. influence The of theart histo work- Sciences and Neu-Ulm University of shop teachers, especially Georgina teachingApplied Sciences. related toIts Africagoal is tounder consoli the date their expertise in research and rian Chika Okeke-Agulu explored the involvement of the Oshogbo artists umbrella of BRIAS. - in the Duro Ladipo-led dance theatre- Spaenle, during his first official- tratedgroup beforehow this they historical were introduced fact is cru to- visit to the University of Bayreuth, em painting and printmaking. She illus phasised the new institute’s outstand ing significance in both the academia cial to our understanding of Mbari and the political scene, whose value is Minister Spaenle and the presidents of the four BRIAS universities. His royal Highness Oba Jimoh Oyetunji, the Ataoja of Oshogbo Kingdom Mbayo. universitiesnoteworthy throughoutand two universities Europe. of On the first day of the conference, The four partners, comprising two- the exhibition “Visions & Talents” increasingly utilise their enormous be the transfer of knowledge from was opened. It showed a selection of applied sciences, differ in their sci the area of research to the decision moved to the new building on Wölfel- ofposters the Iwalewahaus and flyers from and the modern 1950s andart- inentific relation and to organisational Africa, as well profiles;as their straßeIwalewahaus 2. Besides at Münzgasse celebrating before the end it the entire cultural scene in Oshogbo works1960s, ofthe the guestbook Iwalewahaus of the collection.beginning internationalnevertheless theircontacts research with capability African potential in African countries. The- - of a glamorous and successful era in and Bayreuth was a prominent theme Another highlight that recreated the University of Neu-Ulm will foster its makers in politics and the economy” this building, the conference was also of the conference. Also prominent was - long-standing cooperation with Af commented Leible, explicitly thank organised to welcome and celebrate the impact of other art patrons like- dentsUniversities, of the four complement universities, each Walter other rican partners in the field of health- ing the Bavarian State Ministry of Pancho Guedes and Frank McEwen ‘journey’ from Mbari Mbayo to the perfectly. In this manner, the presi- management, while the University of Education, Cultural Affairs, Science Georgina Beier, which is hosted by in these significant cultural and aca- Iwalewahaus was the presence of His biologyWürzburg and will natural further material develop chemis its ex- and the Arts for its support in the the acquisition of the estate of Ulli and demic projects of the 1960s. Another Royal Highness Oba Jimoh Oyetunji, Schober (Ingolstadt University of Ap- pertise in tropical medicine, tropical treatycreation agreed of BRIAS. that the foundation of - topic of the conference was the devel the Ataoja of Oshogbo Kingdom, Osun- plied Sciences), Uta Feser (University All signatories of the cooperation- the Iwalewahaus since Spring 2012. opment of the Iwalewahaus, based on State, Nigeria, who pointed out the of Neu-Ulm), Alfred Forchel (Univer try under the umbrella of BRIAS. - theThe Centre University for Black of Bayreuth Culture isand work In- the concept put in place by Ulli Beier- heritageimportance is underof the theOsun administration Shrine in Ni sity of Würzburg), and Stefan Leible- “In our cooperation, we focus on- BRIAS will open up new funding op- ing on the estate in cooperation with in the 1980s, its transformation over geria. This UNESCO world cultural (University of Bayreuth), intend to developing and realising new re- portunities, on a European Union the moveyears toin thethe newdigital location age, and in 2014. pro actively support the new Bavarian Re search ideas together with our part institutelevel, for will research further projects increase and the coin- ternational Understanding (CBCIU)- jections on its future, especially after- of the Ataoja of Oshogbo Kingdom. search Institute BRIAS in the future. - ners in Africa, thereby promoting aca- ternationaloperation between visibility universities. of Africa-related The Oshogbo, Nigeria. On the part of the The conference was sponsored by the The University of Bayreuth brings demic exchange. The profile of BRIAS research in Bavaria. University of Bayreuth, the Iwalewa Rowland Abiodun introduced the gen Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation. to the partnership an extensive net opens up exciting perspectives of in 54 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 55 work of African partner universities terdisciplinary cooperation, including REPORTS REPORTS

Études sur la linguistique VAD Young Scholars Conference 2014 historique berbère ‘Future Africa’ The perspective of students and junior scholars in African Studies The 8th BaFraLe International Colloquium

TEXT & Photos Johanna Sarre

onlyThe afternoonto young workshops scholars indealt African with th Studiestopics of but particular also to young importance scholars and not

theOn Wednesday,bi-annual conference 11 June of2014, the Verone- of them entitled “Academic Writing & day before the official opening of PhD researchers in general. The first in Deutschland (VAD), VAD young - scholarseinigung in für African Afrikawissenschaften studies gathered Publishing” was facilitated by Renzo Baas, and provided the chance to in teract with invited speakers from dayin Bayreuth conference for thewas “Young organised Scholars by journalvarious CARGO print and online publishers- Conference – Future Africa”. The one- such as the anthropologicalworks!, the student VAD’s Bayreuth Academy of Advanced Afri- Afrika Spectrum, BIGSAS working pa Katharina Fink, Lena Kroeker (both per seriesMattering BIGSAS Press. Sarre (both BIGSAS). and the open access canAfter Studies), brief Renzo words Baas of andwelcome Johanna by platform - The workshop “How to do a PhD” ars of African Studies engaged in- focused on questions of mentorship the organisers, five emerging schol wereand supervision Annika Clarner and was(Doctoral facilitated stu- by Lena Kroeker. Invited speakers visionstensely of with the future the question, of African “Where Stud- - and what is Africa?”, outlining their- versitydents’ representative, of Bayreuth Graduate FAU Nürnberg- School), - - Erlangen), Nadine Chmura (The Uni- TEXT Rémi Tchokothe ies. Julian Tadesse (Zentrum Mod - Bergenthum also presented the ac PHOTO Dymitr Ibriszimow Berber languages in social networks erner Orient, Berlin) proposed “con- Michael Mayer (Internationales Pro tivities of the initiative “ilissAfrica”. countries (Algeria, France, Germany,- andcent contextualised developments suchmobile as thecommuni use of- tingency” as a concept to grasp the Scherermotions (Coordinator, Programm BIGSAS). “Cultural En The workshop on “Research ethics” getherItaly, Libya, to discuss Morocco, their the research Netherlands, on the variety of experiences and expec counters”, Bayreuth) and Christine- was facilitated by Johanna Sarre.- th - Niger, Russia, Spain and UK) came to world terminology in the Souss region tations that shape African futures. Invited speakers included Ulrike of the six families of the Afro-Asiatic cation. A presentation on the marine scholar’sDeborah dream Nyangulu research (University destina of- The workshop “The need for net Krause (University of Marburg), Pe The 8 Bayreuth-Frankfurt-Leiden Berber languages that make up one Münster) presented Africa as “every- working”, facilitated by Katharina ter Pels (Leiden University, NL) ander Kolloquium zur Berberologie maintainof Morocco world foregrounded marine heritageefforts made and Fink, presented the perspectives of- ityMichael of ethical Schönhuth codices, (Universitythe individual of (BaFraLe) under the theme “Études Bayreuthlanguage phylum. The members of the by speakers of a Berber language to- tion” due to the multiplicity of prom- tiatives.people involved Among inthe academic discussants networks were: Trier), who discussed the applicabil thesur lanew linguistique Iwalewahaus historique in Bayreuth. berbère” BaFraLe network created in 2000 in ising research opportunities it offers. and interdisciplinary outreach ini- the voice of the researched in re- Ittook was place organised from 9-11 by the October chair 2014of Afri in- particularly welcomed the the ecosystem. In line with the ques Kani Tuyala (Freie Universität Ber- - searchresponsibility in African of theStudies. researcher and input of young scholars in the field as tion of world heritage, the main topic of lin), founder of the association “Lions- naThorsten Turner Parchent(co-founder (International of the BIGSAS Of The fruitful exchange of ideas, - well as the participation, for the first the next BaFraLe that will take place in of Science”, presented his vision of in fice, The University of Bayreuth), Iri stories and contacts continued at the can Linguistics II and was generously- oftime, historical of a colleague linguistics, from Libya.linguistic ge- 2016 in Frankfurt is “La linguistique et (Centrenovation for and African entrepreneurship Studies, Basel) in Afre- leaguesfunded byfrom the universities German Research and research Foun The presentations covered aspects- la documentation écrites en berbère”. - rica. Agnes Lusito and Sandro Simon “BIGSisters-network”), as well as - dation (DFG) which enabled 17 col es on Arabic, grammatical and lexical The permanent committee of the- Irene Münch (Equal treatment officer reuthForum summer Phoinix night Bayreuth, before where the thebe- conference. studies,ography, thethe impactverbal ofsystem Berber of languag Berber, Bayreuth-Frankfurt-Leidener Kollo visited the constructions of “Africa” of the Bayreuth Municipal Council participants enjoyed the warm Bay institutes in Africa to participate in the - quium zur Berberologie consists of Dy in Europe, engaging the audience in and representative of the “Deutscher mitr Ibriszimow (BT), Harry Stroomer a lively African-European dialogue. Akademikerinnenbund”). Hartmuth ginning of the “big” VAD Conference. Thirty-two participants from 11 toponymy, language in poetry and re (Leiden) and Rainer Vossen (FRA).

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Religion, Ecology, and the Environment HIV/AIDS: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Africa and the African Diaspora An international and multidisciplinary conference on HIV/AIDS

Bayreuth scholars attend the AASR 2014 conference in TEXT & PHOTO Ramona Pech Cape Town, South Africa ference “HIV/AIDS: Interdisciplinary- disciplines and professions related Perspectives” that took place from to HIV/AIDS. In 19 contributions, 11-13 September 2014 at the Univer scholars and practitioners from all TEXT Magnus Echtler today.Discovered There more has thanbeen 30considerable years ago, sity of Bayreuth, were inspired by the- over the world presented, shared and PHOTO Franz Kogelmann HIV/AIDS is still a global phenomenon complex character of HIV/AIDS and Presentationsdiscussed their focused projects mainly as well on as the conceptualisations of, and dis their working experience in the field. progress in prevention and therapy courses about, it in different parts of - - ternationalA number of conference scholars from of thethe AfricanUniver sity of Bayreuth participated in the in

Association for the Study of Religion- (AASR), “Religion, Ecology, and the Environment in Africa and the Afri can Diaspora” that took place from 30 July – 3 August 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa. Centerpiece was a panel Kogelmannon “Wilderness (both as/in Bayreuth), sacred space”which chaired by Magnus Echtler and Franz-

was the outcome of cooperation be andtween the the Bayreuth Department Academy of the of Study Ad- of Religion’s research on sacred space

vanced African Studies sub-project on natural parks. In this panel, Magnus Echtler (Study of Religion) and Ziva Kopezka (BIGSAS) analysed the use of the world. Bringing together scholars - wilderness in religious space in South - inAfrica, Zimbabwe, Kupakwashe where Mtatasacred (Bayreuth sites con- HIV/AIDSsince the epidemic which still started remains in the a greatearly currentcontext factsand aboutbroached the HIV/AIDSthe issue epi of Academy) presented the Matobo Hills- 1980s, but there is still no cure for and practitioners from different oc socio-economicdemic in the European effects of and HIV/AIDS; German chael Hauhs and Georg Klute (both studycupations HIV/AIDS was intended discourses to illustrateand the an overview of HIV counselling and verge with a national park while Mi- problem in many parts of the world. knowledgehow the various gathered approaches about HIV/AIDS used to - But it is not just a medical problem; tionsBayreuth of the Academy) nature-culture presented divide. model HIV/AIDS has a political, an economic, conference was organised by Alex- andtesting Botswana. practices Somein Tanzania, contributions and the ling and anthropological reconfigura- a psychosocial and even a cultural and could be beneficial to others. The antiretroviral therapy in Germany hasreligious to be faced dimension. on various It is levels. a complex sensitisation messages in Germany, In another panel, other schol and multifaceted phenomenon that- andra Groß, Ramona Pech and Ivan dealt with prevention strategies and- BIGSASars from junior Bayreuth fellow alsoSerawit presented Bekele ried out HIV/AIDS-related research in Vlassenko in cooperation with the - their ongoing research. For instance, The University of Bayreuth has car Department of Romance and General eroon,the Dominican while others Republic, discussed franco how Linguistics and the Department of thephone disease West has Africa, been Nigeria received and in Camliter- Debele outlined the ecological aspects the past decade mostly in linguistics German Linguistics. It was funded by in the Irreecha ritual in Ethiopia while and anthropology. Since 2002, many the University of Bayreuth Graduate forGabriele the study Cappai, of religions in a plenary in Africa session, and contextsstudies andhave PhDemerged, projects the most on HIV/ re- theSchool, International BIGSAS, Oberfrankenstiftung, PhD Program (IPP) ature, theatre, film, photography and proposed a new methodological frame centAIDS offrom them, different within perspectives the framework and the Universitätsverein Bayreuth and- Drescherthe media. (BIGSAS Four presentations senior fellow), were Di- scholars from Bayreuth, both in num- of Bayreuth International Graduate sity of Bayreuth. held by members of BIGSAS: Martina elsewhere. The strong performance of School of African Studies (BIGSAS). ‘Cultural Encounters’ of the Univer- conference. The organising committee of the con- (BIGSASdérot Djiala alumni). Mellie (junior fellow) and ber and quality, was duly noted at the The conference provided interest Kofi Evam Glover and Baba Mai Bello ing insights into a broad spectrum of 58 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 59 REPORTS REPORTS

The Imaginary of Renewal Doing politics – Making kinship

A Point Sud workshop in Dakar, Senegal Back towards a future anthropology of social organisation and belonging: An International workshop

TEXT Tabea Häberlein & André Thiemann Thomas Zitelmann (Berlin), a British- the kinship problem called “incest”. Hague) paper. Kinship as politics was- focused on trends in cultural idioms ticesaddressed of non-heterosexual by Marit Melhuus Norwegian (Oslo) - American military anthropologist, who talked about reproductive prac

The international workshop, “Do linked to kinship while the historianth and couples. Focusing on Russia, Inna ing Politics – Making Kinship: Back Davidth Sabean (Los Angeles) moved- Leykin (Tel Aviv) described a new- towards a Future Anthropology of the discussion back to the 18 rygenealogy of the Palestinian building method West Bank in Russia was Social Organisation and Belonging”- 19 century kinship politics in Eu atcalled the “Rodologija”.centre of Hendrik The recent Hindrich histo- 13-15 February 2014, was organised rope showing how the importance of sen and Arne Worms’ (Göttingen) as part of the IRC international con- kinship increased with the process of investigation of generational conference, “Work and the Life Cycle in- verymodernisation. different relations Signe Howellbetween (Oslo) kin- - reuth)Global andHistory”, Tatjana at Thelenthe Humboldt (Vienna). Uni reflected on three societies that have- versityIn Western Berlin by societies Erdmute and Alber Western (Bay inburgh) looked at blood donation tookflicts a overcritical political look at (non-)participa the ideology of ship and politics. Janet Carsten (Ed tion. Jeanette Edwards (Manchester) - distinctsocial science unrelated research, realms kinship of social and practices and their relationship to transparency and accountability in politics are often conceptualised as everyday life and politics. Francis Great Britain’s politics of assisted re- TEXT Aminata Cecile Mbaye ings by the writers Ken Bugul (Sene- Academy, facilitated the analysis of - Pine (London) revisited the public- productive technologies while Daniel- PHOTO Ute Fendler gal) and Sami Tchak (Togo), as well as images from revolutions. life. Anthropological research on the private dichotomy as it is uncritically- J. Smith (Providence) examined dis Valdiodio N’Diaye: sub-disciplines of kinship and politi reproduced in studies of socialism in- courses about good and bad corrup- L’Indépendance du Sénégal, directed (Germany/South Africa) and the cu- havecal anthropology worked increasingly began in the on 1940s. state Poland. Lucia Michelutti (London) de tion as practised in Nigeria. Opening the film screenings: ratorThe and photographer Bayreuth Academy Abrie Fouriefellow Recently, kinship anthropologists- scribed how ordinary people in Ven describedup a complex the situation case of culturalof underem inti- Senegal) and Nèg Maron, directed by herezuela study and of India a Greek consider maternity leaders ward, to macy, Ivan Rajković (Manchester) From 17-21 May 2014, Ute Fendler,- by Amina N’Diaye Leclerc (France/ South Africa) realised a session of regulation of reproduction and adop be invested with divine kin(g)ship. In factory. Viviane Azarian, Ulf Vierke, Aminata Storm Janse Van Rensburg (Germany/- tion, while political anthropologists - ployed male workers in a Serbian car Cécile Mbaye and Nadine Siegert or- Jean-ClaudeIn the framework Flamand Barnyof the (France/ confer- entanglementshave studied nationalof state and identification kin. These migrantIrini Papadaki mothers (Mytilini) and their looked new-born at the ganised an international “Point Sud”- Guadeloupe). “Stories and Conversations”. All par or belonging focusing particularly on process of de-kinning between im The relaxed atmosphere of the versityworkshop in Dakar, on “The Senegal. Imaginary The ofevent Re day to the exhibition “Precarious Im- anticipants image, were which invited led to tothe bring discussion along social workers. Charlotte Brucker- workshop facilitated the fruitful- newal” at the Cheikh Anta Diop Uni ence, a visit was organised on the first and share a story to be supported by- similar foci have progressively eroded children under the influence of state- discussions on the topic of politics - the conceptual boundaries between memory,and kinship belonging, from different national discipli iden- which was part of the “Programme mosexualityaging” at the in Raw Africa. Material Homosexuality Company, of the relationship between narra- the sub-disciplines. - mann (London) illustrated the rela- tity,nary or and other professional ‘truths’ are lenses. relevant In all,for Point Sud 2013-2014” was funded by waswhich one dealt of the with themes the question of the Dakar of ho tives and photography. In his keynote address, Michael tionship between China’s one-child- the German Research Foundation Biennale conference given that it is someA visitcurators to the of theDakar 2014 Biennale edition. pro Herzfeld (Harvard) defined corrup policy, consumerism and family net - curators,(DFG). The scholars participants, and activists, among them dis- vided an opportunity to discuss with tion as “too much politics” and a theworks. focus The of political Kristen economyCheney’s of(The in ability.understanding corruption in politics writers, filmmakers, photographers,- criminal or condemned in several Af- practice that could be likened, from ternational adoption in Uganda was and social trust and procedural reli topical in Africa at the moment – it is- KenThe Bugul activist (Senegal) Malal offered Almamy a guided Tall an anthropological perspective, to acrosscussed the and world, reflected and onfocused current on imthe “Fou malade” (Senegal) and the writer ages and representations of Africa- included:rican countries. Other practical activ NAB Call for Papers ities that were part of the conference city tour of Dakar to participants. The- NAB: Newsletter of African Studies at the University of Bayreuthis published annually by the Institute of African Studies. central question of the relation be liticalgroup andvisited historical particular moments places ofin the The deadline for submission of contributions is 20 October every year. tween the aesthetic and the politic. Three Icon Lab sessions with the city which are linked to certain po Reports should have around 450 words. Short texts (Guests, Personalia, In brief) should have 100-150 words. Main articles The workshop was opened by the- curator Karen E. Milbourne (USA), should have at least 750 words. Dean of the Faculty of Sciences and the associate professor of literature- country such as the uprising by the Technology of Education and Forma and artist Kara Lynch (USA) and the- collective “Y’en a marre” and “M23” Photos are always very welcome and should be submitted in original size and file format (not resized, not cropped). tion (FASTEF) that hosted the event- BIGSAS alumnus Louis Ndong (Sen- in 2012. The city tour opened new- Minimum file size for report photos is 1,200 px width. One coloumn photos need to have at least 600 px width. and the Point Sud coordinator in Mali, egal). The Icon Lab, a methodology de latedperspectives or linked on to theother question images, of narra how- All submissions should be sent in separate files with clear labels to [email protected]. theoreticalMoussa Sissoko. discussions, The five-day literary workread- veloped in the context of the sub-pro certain places produce images, are re shop was structured around texts and ject “Revolution 3.0” of the Bayreuth 60 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 61 tives and political changes. REPORTS REPORTS

Middle Classes in Kenya New Dynamics in Swahili Studies

A research training excursion to Kenya: An international symposium MA Cultural and Social Anthropology TEXT & Photo Clarissa vierke

TEXT & Photos Florian Stoll

“New Dynamics in Swahili Stud- How can middle classes in Africa be On 10-11 June 2014, the symposium - Bayreuth. It was jointly organised ies” took place at the University of dodefined? they constituteHow do members and which of the future mid dle classes in Kenya live? What groups (Bayreuth)by Rose Marie with Beck, funding Irene from Brunotti the (both Leipzig) and Clarissa Vierke expectations do they have? What do - onthey Sundays consume? and Howwho dorather they goes spend to Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung and BIGSAS. their leisure time? Who goes to church Bayreuth and Leipzig are synony- nalmous Swahili with SwahiliForum while studies: Bayreuth Leipzig the gym? These questions and many hosts the Swahilipeer-reviewed Colloquium online. jour others were the starting point for a- th an- group of eight MA students from the niversary of the Swahili Forum and University of Bayreuth who conduct organisedOn the on occasion the sidelines of the 20of the ed guided field research in Kenya in th August-September 2014. The 6-week research trip was organised under the 27critical Swahili directions Colloquium, in Swahili the aimschol of- supervision of Erdmute Alber, Dieter- this symposium was to open new- Neubert and Florian Stoll as part of the- - Participants of the symposium “New Dynam- Masters programmes “Culture and So arship, taking into account the his- ics in Swahili Studies” together with partici- ciety in Africa” and “Cultural and So tory of Swahili Studies, its present The historical development of Swa pants of the Swahili Colloquium and the 21st - Afrikanistentag during a Reception in the cial Anthropology”. It was organised newcoordinates trend by and a generation also future of perspec Swahili hili scholarship was revisited from Botanical Garden Advancedby the sub-project African Studies. “Middle Classes on scholarstives. For who instance, have moved there hasaway been from a a critical interdisciplinary perspec the Rise” of the Bayreuth Academy of - tive by scholars like Mark Kandagor- - (Kenya), Aldin Mutembei (Tanzania), visual culture as well as literary texts The students’ projects covered the the text- and language-centred ap Kimani Njogu (Kenya), Georges Mu- fields of sport (e.g. “Middle classes in proaches to Swahili and now critical- lumbwa (DRC), Farouk Topan (UK)- socialthe gym” commitment and “What (e.g. does “Narratives it mean to ly question the “object of research” and Alena Rettová (UK). The archae- from interdisciplinary perspectives be a football player?”), motives for areas wellbroader as itsand epistemological include a number as ologist Mark Horton (UK), the geogra was the core of the talks by Ulf Vierke- women’s motives in voluntary work in sumptions. Their research interests- pher Julia Verne (Frankfurt), the his (Bayreuth), Andrew Eisenberg (USA), of NGO employees” and “Middle class tural, historical and social studies. focusedtorian Geert on the Castryck global entanglement (Leipzig) and of Kimani Njogu (Kenya) and Alain Ri - - - of disciplines, especially from cul- the anthropologist Kai Kresse (USA)- card (France). - churches”), disability (e.g. “Disability- ingexpected informal results: house Nobody maids expected in Kisumu, to mobility. Another rather unexpected The symposium constituted an- among middle class academics”), so wherefind the maids diverse could market either for contractbe hired butcollect special data, moment in Kenya’s was thatlargest one body pro To discuss this development, schol Swahili-speaking cultures. John Karu important step in writing a criti cial class and employment (e.g. “Do- buildingfessor found contest herself, amid in her well-trained attempt to ars from neighbouring disciplines gia (Frankfurt), Daniela Waldburger cal interdisciplinary history of Swa mestic labour” and “The floating class and half naked athletes. The results of (African)like anthropology, art, and economics history, mediawork- of(Austria) linguistic and and Birgit cultural Englert uniformity. (Austria) hili scholarship since it incorporated in slums”), and art (e.g. “Self-percep- temporarily from the informal street- studies, literature, political science, added critical perspectives on notions paradigms from other disciplines. It- doret,tions of the artists”). students Starting were divided with a kickinto corner ‘labour market’ or employed- insights into the life of Kenyan middle sisillustrated of area studies. the potential The transregional of Swahili off-workshop at Moi University El full-time. Results from another pro the excursion promise to offer many- ing on Eastern Africa were invited.- In the panel on “Swahili studies as the- Studies to provide answers to the cri surroundingject indicated rural that areas many into NGO the emcity - Three continents, America, Europe- way)study investigated of community changing of practices” notions Pat of Swahili society along with its multi- two groups. After three weeks in the ployees in Eldoret moved from the classes and will hopefully be docu lowsand Africa, from the were Bayreuth represented, International as ex SwahiliCaplan (UK)identity and bothKjersti within Larsen the (Nor so- entanglement of the cosmopolitan- field, the first results and challenges - mented in the participants’ forthcom Graduateperienced Schoolscholars of and African 10 junior Studies fel ciety and within the academia. A call of the fieldwork were discussed in a therand thatresearch there wereto understand few Eldoret-born these theing Masterstheme “Nature theses. andThe Society:next research Natu- (BIGSAS) brainstormed on these for the study of cultural archives con- lingual practices offer alternative per- mid-term workshop at Moi University- NGO workers there. This calls for fur training excursion in 2015 will be on new dynamics in Swahili Studies. structed in music and sound, art and spectives for conceptualising identity, Eldoret. belonging as well as linguistic compe This workshop revealed some un patterns of social origin and labour ral Parks in Ethiopia”. tence and literary practice. 62 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 63 REPORTS REPORTS

BIGSAS FC! Second in the Wilde Liga 2014

A little bit of play after work

BIGSAS FC celebrates after winning a tournament in Nurnberg

BIGSAS mascot, Thalia, carries a BIGSAS FC balloon just before a match Swahili and New Media and Technologies TEXT Eric Anchimbe PHOTOS BIGSAS, Cheikh Babou ments. In June 2013, the team was The 27th Swahili Colloquium champion of the Nurnberg Africa- Festival football tournament while in - 2012, it won the Interkulturelle Dop TEXT & Photo Clarissa vierke - In 2014, BIGSAS FC continued to carry- pelpass tournament organised by the the colours of BIGSAS and the Univer Sports Institute of the University of eties in Africa and the diaspora. Sev music and dances. New virtual spaces Itsity was of Bayreuththe third deeperyear that into the the team big Bayreuth. In 2015, BIGSAS FC will also eral presentations focused on the role Swahili,of expression have havefound emergedfertile ground where ger Bayreuth space through football. playWe in welcomethe Wilde anyone Liga, the who Wilde is inter Cup,- th asof socialwell asmedia new like mobile Facebook, technologies Twitter particularly African languages, like and other football competitions. - The annual Swahili Colloquium took and Youtube, blogs and chat rooms, - played in the non-professional league, ously or just for fun. There is always organisedplace for the by 27 Clarissa time on Vierke 8-9 June (Profes 2014- to flourish thanks to the new media Wilde Liga, organised by the city of ested in playing football either seri at the University of Bayreuth. It wason language and society. Hans Mussa- tendtechnologies. to be accessible Contrary only to to the a few, expen the toBayreuth move BIGSAS and other beyond partners. its academic The we train every Sunday afternoon on es) and brought together 40 scholars (Tanzania), for instance, analysed the sive forms of paper publishing, which- boundsleague offersand to BIGSAS give Bayreuthers FC the chance a was the most successful in the league. a place for everyone. In the summer,- sor of Literatures in African Languag- (Kenya)impact oflooked these at technologies the interface on of new lan lications in Swahili, its teaching as sardweg International Hostel and also guage use, while Hezekiel Gikambi new media offer new spaces for pub- sometimesthe football in pitchthe Hof next Garten. to theWe wish Bus of African linguistics from East Afri closer perspective on Africa. - In the Wilde Cup, organised alongside to thank the Bayreuth International ca, the United States and Europe. The- media and established print media in well as its literary expression, as ex- Playing in the Third League of the- the league, BIGSAS FC qualified for the Graduate School of African Studies theme “Swahili and New Media and andKenya. Daines Other Sanga contributions, (Bayreuth) like inves those- plained, for instance, by Daniel Brown- chimbe,Wilde Liga, came the out BIGSAS second teamon the coordi league final round which unfortunately did - ofTechnologies” new technologies offered on scholars Swahili the soci op- tigatedby Zawadi these Limbe changes Daniel within (Tanzania) Swahili tations.(USA), Flavia Aiello (Italy) and Ange nated by BIGSAS senior fellow, Eric An not take place due to time constraints portunity to discuss the implications lus Mnenuka (Leipzig) in their presen related to the World Cup. - (BIGSAS) for the financial and logisti table with a total of plus 26 goals. With In the past two years, BIGSAS FC cal support not only for 2014 but also 64 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 65 48 goals scored, the BIGSAS FC attack has taken part in several tourna for the past years. REPORTS REPORTS

husband through the violence and the least, The Great Kilapy by the Angolan Wagner and the Voodoo Priest nist tries to cope with the loss of her Europe and Africa. And last but not a video entitled “Between Spaces” Les En- story of an Angolan student in Portu- filmed shortly before the festival A BIGSAS-IAS workshop on sacred performances fantspressures de Troumaron of the society on a widow. film director Zézé Gamboa told the- andbringing various together settings the in choreographyBayreuth (e.g. the Harrikrisnahidden violence Anenden’s in suburban film Port of Lulu Sala (Maputo, Mozambique) (2013) questions- gal who enjoys life in spite of the rac- - TEXT Magnus Echtler ism of the epoch. He gets involved in jectedthe Iwalewahaus, as background the Rotmain to a live Centre dance - meticulousLouis, Mauritius, study whereof the four characters teenag managesthe Resistance to trick and the once system. back in With An mall, the Cineplex cinema) was pro- Green Hill” made headlines in the stanceUlrich of Berner the re-enchantment (Bayreuth) treating of the anders dreamthe situations of love and they escape. get involved A very gola, he supports the movement and- - - linkGerman between press. art and religion in two Wagner’s opera festival as an in- in, often against their own will, reveal tive history of the colonial times is performance by Lulu Sala accompa- reuth), the joint BIGSAS-IAS work- The workshop investigated the hagen) described the holy-sublime in a hidden structure of violence. toldthis with outstanding a lot of humour. figure, an alterna nied by live music by Matchume Zan Organised by Magnus Echtler (Bay Parsifalworld. Nils Holger Petersen (Copen Soleils go (percussion) and Jean-Pierre Jo Sacred Performances in Bayreuth ways. On the one hand, some papers (Bayreuth) investigated miracles séphine (guitar). This intermediary shop “Wagner and the Voodoo Priest: studyinterpreted of religion the artistic while performanceon the other and magic while in Lohengrin Christoph Bochinger to followWith a griot Dani and Kouyaté’s the king’s daugh- HamiThe Binebine projections (author were offollowed Horses byof project, “Between Spaces”, was set hand,or opera religious with ceremonies concepts were from ana the- (Burkina Faso, 2013),th we are invited Goddiscussions with Imad Fijjaj (actor), in the spirit of MangrOove that was and Elsewhere” took place at the . Philip Smith founded in 2012 (see NAB XIII: 65). toUniversity identify similarities of Bayreuth between from 11-13 the - (Berlin)(Yale) identified discussed Wagner’s the role of Bayreuth Houston ter in Mali of the 14 century on a trip , and the film directors J. Kibinge, andParallel discussions to the withfilm week,the guests the chair on February 2014. The overall aim was lysed as artistic performances. Chamberlainas a failed pilgrimage, in linking and Wagner Sven Fritzwith through space and time that gives a D. Kouyaté, H. Krishna, Z. Gamboa. of RomanceCinema Studies and organisedBeyond. talks - On the first day, Timothy Bai big picture of history and explains The opening of Cinema Africa lishopera the and local vodun link ceremonies,between Wagner’s music yewu, Serawit Bekele, Ziva Kopecka the difficult relationship between 2014 was marked by a special event: the topic, and (spirit) possession, and to estab- and Genevieve Nrenzah (all BIGSAS) nationalistic and racist circles. On analysed religious practices from the last day, Almut-BarbaraFlying Dutchman Renger Wagneroperas andand Africa.African This religions rather was un West, East and South Africa from (Berlin) dealt with popular culture- usual relationship between Richard- a performative studies viewpoint, calisedadaptations the sacred of the in Schlingensief’s African Linguistics, while Rosalind Hackett (Tennessee) Africanwhile Magnus Opera VillageEchtler. (Bayreuth) lo Parsifalintroduced to the public by Chris reflected on the significance of music - toph Schlingensief who directed and sound in religious practice. Literatures and History at the Bayreuth Festival- On the second day, attention was- The workshop’s scholarly discus formances(Bayreuther entitled Festspiele) “Voodoo from on2004- the tweenon Wagner, Wagner with and Michael Buddhism von Brück and Housesions were in Bayreuth. supplemented by visits to 2007. An article about these per (Munich) discussing the links be the Wagner Museum and the Opera 21st Afrikanistentag 2014 in Bayreuth

TEXT Irina Turner BIGSAS Cinema Africa 2014 Works! The contributions deal with UK, Germany, Italy, Austria, Cameroon published as a special issue of - st Afri- thisand Spain.biennial conference of the Fach- Season 5: Capturing the spiral of violence on camera verbandAfter Afrikanistik 1998, it was was the hosted second by time the Swahili, Igbo, Lubukusu, Cameroo From 10-11 June 2014, the 21 - ofnian the French 21st Afrikanistentagand Wolof, among took others. the kanistentag took place in Bayreuth.- - chanceMany to of meet the overand 60exchange participants with TEXT UTE Fendler - Horses Opened by Friederike Lüpke (Profes University of Bayreuth. Apart from- - - of God (2012) is based on the novel sor of African Linguistics, SOAS, Uni marthe traditionalof African topicslanguages), of language the 2014 ty ed conferences, i.e. “New Dynamics in of the massive repression and op present. Nabil Ayouch’s film - versity of London) and Anne Storch- pology (e.g. syntax, semantics, gram participants of two other Africa-relat pression in the 1980s via the protag- - (Professor of African Linguistics,- Afrikanistentag to include new re- voltsonist. and The had protagonist now just been was arrestedreleased istby Mahiattacks Binebine in Casablanca. that recounts These pertwo University of Cologne) with the key- searchconference domains expanded in African the scope linguistics of the Swahili Studies” (10-11 June 2014) and Like in the previous years, the 2014- and imprisoned during the 1980 re sonal stories behind the 2003 terror note “Concepts of languages and dis - Bayreuththe VAD conferenceduring the same “Future week. Africa” The edition of the film festival “Cinema courses on ‘the field’”, this year’s in (11-14 June 2014), which took place in Africa” showed recent films on vari from prison in the middle of the Arab films offer insight into the problems areasternational such as conference language structures saw over and 37 andlike translating emotion and vs. transferring experience inAfrica. lan ous social, political andThey historical are the ofspring. journalists His search covering for histhe familyArab of contemporary MoroccanSomething society Nec- papers presented on topics covering- guage‚ popular culture, translocality exciting evening programme in the issuesDogs in Africa. The festival opened brings him into contact with a group essaryfrom very different perspectives. locality, communication and transla- on translation organised by BIGSAS theseBotanical conferences Gardens the of chance the University to enjoy with the Moroccan film Judy Kibinge’s film - typology, popular culture and trans- juniorThe fellows, papers Serenapresented Talento, in the Hector panel of Bayreuth gave participants of all by Hasrim Lasri which brings spring. The film is convincing in the (2013) also deals with violence- of academic brainstorming. together snapshots of the 2010 Arab construction of a complex storyline – this time the 2007-2008 post-elec tion. It was attended by over 60 par the cool breeze of summer after days spring and a personalised experience that brings together the past and tion violence in Kenya. The protago ticipants from various countries, e.g. Kamdem and Uchenna Oyali, will be

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New Perspectives in Anglophone Cameroon Drama and Theatre Child Soldiers in Context

DAAD sponsors alumni conference in honour of late Prof. Eckhard Breitinger Biographies, familial and collective trajectories in Northern Uganda

- tive and unobtrusive sense. This cor- TEXT & Photo Artur Bogner been extensive, of course, in a posi- hard Breitinger. responds with the personality of Eck -

The final day of theThe conference Road to Goma was, Work on this research project start- marked by a thrilling performance of- ology)ed in Mayand 2014funded and by is the directed German by Ba’bila Mutia’s play Dieter Neubert (Development Soci performed by the “Theatre for So - cial Change” under the direction of Research Foundation (DFG) for the Emelda Ngufor Samba. Set during the wasperiod designed 2014–2016. and Theis conducted principal rein Rwandan crisis, a group of seemingly searcher is Artur Bogner. The project- uninvolved civilians hook up on their turnquest tells for atheir supposedly story. Their safe harbour.testimo- collaboration with Gabriele Rosen niesAs the reveal play unfolds,their entanglement each character in anin thal (Center of Methods in the Social inhumane regime, as well the barba- Sciences, Georg-August-University Göttingen). The principal objective ofis former to reconstruct child soldiers biographies, and underage life The main instrument of data collec- case reconstructions with the analy- rous carnage that erupted from it. The courses and reintegration processes tion‘generational will be narrative units’ (Karl interviews Mannheim). with sisbiographical of local discourses and family-biographical and their histor- random.choice of The this Road dramatic to Goma performance former child soldiers or abductees of Ba’bila Mutia’s play was surely not- abductees of the Lord’s Resistance- and other members of their families of cases will be guided, among others, TEXT Uli Bauer Arts, drew from his lifetime of aca- ing the roots of the human is condition political viousArmy inresearch, the central data part collection of northern and ical change. The theoretical sampling- PHOTO Eunice Fonyuy intheatre times at of its crises. best, dedicatedAs a socio-cultural to expos analysisUganda. However,shall focus in contraston embedding to pre histories. This method of data collec- Breitinger both as a close friend and - about their biographies and family- generationsby disputes orand tensions generational between units) dif demic collaboration with Eckhard - in the contexts of family histories - ferent groupings (including historical- If an academic event can be termed the strong and dedicated academic phenomenon, as well as an outstand- andtheir the biographical histories of self-presentations their local social tion was tested in a pilot study con - linka colleague. between His Cameroon is but one and example Germa of- resentsing example exactly of the contemporary form of cultural Afri - ducted in Uganda. Case reconstruc- that are related to diverse or conflict conference that was hosted by the can and Cameroonian drama, it rep ing them within these diachronic and icaltions work will for aim the to life capture courses the and effects self- froming interpretations adolescence to ofadulthood. e.g. the transi emotional, this surely applies to a was interested in. socio-collectivesettings and collectivities, contexts and interpret taking of familial pasts and family-biograph tion from rebel-fighter to civilian and Cameroon,ny that was but not also limited involved to the other field re of- expressionsThe conference that Eckhard was funded Breitinger by into account their intertwining with before and after demobilisation. Bio- University of Yaoundé I through the- gionsAnglophone of Sub-Saharan Drama and Africa Literature and other in - the latter. interpretations of the interviewees- We envisage comparisons to the itinger,Department Professor of Arts emeritus and Archaeology of African - The methodological design of the terviews with family members shall findings of our previous project on the in honour of the late Eckhard Bre arts. Being the outcome of individual gramme.the German In this Academic context, Exchange it is notewor Ser- graphical and family-biographical in post-conflict process in the adjacent- contributionsfields of literature and diverse and performing forms of vice through the DAAD Alumni pro fortsWest Nileas well region as methods of northern of research Uganda. Literature, University of Bayreuth, study is based on the principles of be complemented, among others,- andWe hope counseling to help inimprove the context practical of the ef memorableon 21-22 July event 2014. who There did was not hardly have thy that Eckhard Breitinger was the- social-constructivist biographical lyby from interviews their local and social group settings. interviews reintegration of former child soldiers ananyone academic among encounter the participants or even ina life-this discoursecollaboration, is largely the propagationBreitinger’s merit. of an first among the scholars in Bayreuth research and figurational sociology with other informants, predominant or abductees into civilian life. long story of collaboration to tell that AnglophoneParallel sessions Cameroonian were dedicated literary African Studies to set up, in 1998, a se with an emphasis on family histories.- theries DAAD.of thematic In accordance alumni workshops with the netand- entationA prominent and objectivecollective isdiscourses, to unveil An important aim is to combine scholars, largely from various univer- - workingcapacity aims building of the events, event, funded Bayreuth by the intertwining between self-pres- Contact information: sitiesinvolved in Cameroon, the deceased. but also A including group of to diverse topics such as “Language Artur Bogner guests from Bayreuth assembled in and/in theatre”, “Leadership and dra differences,self-interpretation tensions and and interpreta interde- Universität Bayreuth, Entwicklungssoziologie, D-95440 Bayreuth ma/theatre”, “Women, representation was represented by Eric Anchimbe, tion by others. Focus is also on the - email: [email protected] and drama/theatre”, among others. who provided helpful information for historical generations and between Inthe his multipurpose keynote address, building Bole hosting Butake, the It was from the personal stories and prospective PhD students. It is no sur pendencies between various socio- ProfessorDepartment emeritus of Arts and of Archaeology.Performing Cameroonresearch focus drama of the and papers theatre that hasthe muchprise thatsought concrete after. information on the “German influence” on anglophone application process for BIGSAS was 68 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 69 PROJECTS PERSONALIA

Personalia

Uli Beisel - nology in Africa. She is also a senior fellow with the Bayreuth International Since April 2014, Uli Beisel holds the Junior Professorship for Culture and Tech-

Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS). Uli Beisel studied psychology, sci ence and technology and human geography in Bremen (Germany), Pune (India) and Lancaster (UK). She holds a doctorate in human geography from The Open researchUniversity focuses (UK). She on heldhuman-environment positions at the London relations, School global of Hygiene health andand Tropical energy. Medicine, University of Halle-Wittenberg and Lancaster University. Uli Beisel’s - Her research has been on topics like malaria control in Ghana and Sierra Leone, the translation of new health technologies in Uganda and Rwanda and the im TEXT Wolfgang Bender plementation of renewable energy technologies in Germany and Madagascar. The professorship, Culture and Technology in Africa, is designed to bring the insocial science, and engineeringtechnology and sciences society. in Bayreuth into closer conversation. Uli Beisel’s aim is to spark students’ and colleagues’ interest in interdisciplinary research (Auswärtige Amt) granted funding In 2012, the German Foreign Ministry- Digitalising Cameroon’s Carolin Herzog through its programme “Kulturerh alt” (Cultural Preservation) for the - digitisation of the reel-to-reel tapes musical heritage Theof the Goethe Cameroon Institute Radio Cameroon and Television also Carolin Herzog has been working as a Project Assistant in the Tanzanian-Ger (CRTV) archives (see NAB XII: 49).- man Centre for Eastern African Legal Studies (TGCL) in Bayreuth since August- CRTV’s recordings of choirs, folklore and popular 2013. Her tasks at the TGCL include, besides the day-to-day tasks of project jointsupported venture the by the project Iwalewahaus, wholeheart the dance music management, the organisaton of the annual TGCL Summer or Autumn Univer- edly. The digitalisation project is a sity which usually takes place at the University of Bayreuth. Carolin Herzog studied Germanistik and Romanistik at the Friedrich-Alex- yearUniversity (2014) of after Bayreuth nearly and three the CRTVyears ander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg where she also obtained her MA in 2013.- in Yaounde. The funding ended this- massive agglomeration of information She taught German, French and English languages at a private school in Nürn berg. She has also held internship positions at the Goethe Institute in Stras of dubbing tapes onto a digital car known if anywhere else in the world hasneeds often to be been done limited in this byfield. the lack of bourg, the German-French Institute in Erlangen and the German Embassy in rier. The CRTV owns hundreds of reel- todayunprecedented anybody has in thisa bigger field. collection It is not digitalResearch access on to music these in recordings. Cameroon Brussels, from which she acquired extensive practical intercultural experience. Cameroonianto-reel tapes music containing dating recordingsas far back of information on Cameroonian mu- - of choirs, folklore music and popular - Tilman Musch - ranging from the beginning of mod- Thissic database archive forwill any hopefully audio- orbe sound-a suit as 1960s. ernsic than music this. in ItCameroon is exhaustive to today, in scope, and basedable research analysis companion of Cameroonian and the music. ba Having been stored under inap covers all genres. We look forward to having the hard Conceptions of Space among the propriate conditions for the past four - drives here in Bayreuth for long-term TubuSince in 2013, Eastern Tilman Niger Musch has been the coordinator of the three-year German decades, these tapes have become gang Bender in a bid to safeguard this Research Council (DFG) funded research project fragile and restoring them required The project was initiated by Wolf- - at the University of Bayreuth. He is particularly interested lovera lot ofof experienceCameroonian and music, expertise. who over For storage in Digitalisierung, Edition- in nomadic peoples and ethnobiology. His PhD on space among Buryat-Mongol thethis delicateyears had task, accumulated Joachim Oelsner a huge – a part of the cultural heritage of Cam und Vernetzung in den Afrika-Wis- pastoralists – based on three years of fieldwork in Siberia – was awarded by the - extensivelyeroon. A quick heterogeneous look at the overnature 1000 of senschaften (DEVA) archives. The dig Institut National de Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) Paris in 2007. tapes already digitised, reveals the- soitisation that they equipment could continue used in digitising the pro His current research project deals with conceptions of space among the Tubu private collection of music from Cam sent state of the metadata, we do not ject will be handed over to the CRTV- in the far east of Niger from a spatial anthropological perspective. His overall formeroons, a hilariouswas the most virtual suitable archive person. that Cameroonian music. From the pre- ly, in the long term, the whole treasure aim is to investigate the impact of changing spatial orders, the negotiation of- tracesHis collection the heritage and the and CRTV evolution archives of niments or instruments these songs current music for the future. Hopeful (new) spaces between different actors and the Tubu discourses on space and Cameroonian music. wereknow made. with whatThis is kinds an indication of accompa of and made accessible to researchers its appropriation. Tilman Musch is also interested in ethnobotany and ethno The outcome of the digitisation is a the amount of research work that still andof the music CRTV lovers. archives will be digitised ofzoology, his research. especially the uses of plants for medical purposes, in particular, in the treatment of snakebites. Studying local knowledge on snake-fauna is also part

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Benedict T. Mapunda DAAD Award 2014

Benedict T. Mapunda was appointed as the new coordinator of the Tanzanian- Jimam Timchang Lar German Centre for Eastern African Legal Studies (TGCL) in Dar es Salaam in- April 2014. He took over from Kennedy Gastorn. The TGCL is a joint project of the Universities of Bayreuth and Dar es Salaam. Benedict T. Mapunda is a Sen - ior Lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam School of Law. He received his niorThe 2014fellow DAAD of the PrizeBayreuth for Outstanding International Achievement Graduate School of a LLB and LLM degrees from the University of Dar es Salaam and his PhD from Foreign Student was awarded to Jimam Timchang Lar, ju the University of Ghent, Belgium. Before joining the University of Dar es Salaam in 1994, he worked in the Tanzanian Attorney-General’s Chambers as a Senior of African Studies (BIGSAS). Jimam Lar studied History- State Attorney. His main research interests are procedural law and criminal at the University of Jos – Nigeria, graduating with a BA- law, in which he has published several manuals on evidence. - (Hons) in 2001 and an MA in the History of Central Nige He has held various positions at the University of Dar es Salaam School of ria in 2007. In 2008, he earned another MA in Conflict, Se Law, including Associate Dean for Administration (2002-2003), Head of the Le curity and Development from King’s College London, UK. gal Theory Department (2003-2009), and Head of the Private Law Department Since October 2011, Jimam has been a Doctoral student in (2009-2012). Since 2011, he is the Chairman of the University of DarThe es Law Salaam Re- “Vigilantism,African History State, and and Politics, Society at BIGSAS. in Plateau Jimam’s State, Doctoral Nigeria: Tenderformer JournalBoard. He is also a member of the Governing Board of the Law Reform- project under the supervision of Achim von Oppen is titled Commissionform Commission. (since 2011) and Chairman of the Editorial Board of thesis, he seeks to trace and illustrate an otherwise lit- (since 2014), a legal journal published by the Tanzanian Law Re A History of Plural Policing (1950 to the present)”. In this

Jimam Lar on research in Nigeria tle known link between the plural policing landscape of- Ivo Ritzer colonial Nigeria and the evolution of a new plurality of policing, that emerged in the first decade after independ - ence and has continued to evolve in response to changing political and social contexts. withIvo Ritzer the Bayreuth was appointed International Junior ProfessorGraduate Schoolfor Media of AfricanStudies Studieswith focus (BIGSAS). on Af rica at the University of Bayreuth in October 2014. He is also a senior fellow

Before moving to Bayreuth, he worked at the University of Siegen, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and the University of Applied Sciences Mainz- where he taught courses in theatre, film and television studies,New Perspectivesvisual culture, on Mediamedia Aestheticsand cultural theory. He is author of several essays, monographs and ed Publications ited books, and also the editor of the Springer book series (Neue Perspektiven der Medienästhetik). His research interest- ¢ - ¢ Struc- is on representations of the body in the media, media and genre theory, media tural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives

aesthetics, media anthropology, media archaeology, media and cultural globali Alber, Erdmute & Christian UnAnchimbe Anchimbe, Eric A. (ed.). 2014. Eric A. Anchimbe Editor on Indigenisation: On Multilingualism Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Indigenisation Eric A. Anchimbe Editor sation, film and television theory and world and transnational cinema. Ongruhe. Multilingualism and Language2014. Evolution Fans and statesSoccer at work: & So- and Language Evolution. Dordrecht:

A Ghanaian fan trip to the FIFA WorldEd. Descriptionsciety of new varieties of European languages in postcolonial contexts have focused exceedingly on system-based indigenisation and variation. This volume–while furtherCup illustrating 2010 processes andin instantiatio Southns of indigenisation Africa. at this level–incorpo- Eva Spies rates investigations of sociolinguistic and pragmatic phenomena in daily social interaction–e.g. politeness, respect, compliment response, naming and address forms, and gender–through 1: innovative 1–22. analytic frameworks that view indigenisation from emic Springer. perspectives.¢ Focusing on postcolonial Cameroon and using natural and questionnaire“A qui appar- ¢ data, the book assesses the salience of linguistic and sociocultural hybridisation trig- geredtiennent by colonialism and, lesrecently, enfants?”globalisation in interaction inDes and across normes languages et des - and cultures. The authors illustrate how the multilingual nature of the society and individuals’Alber, multilingual repertoires Erdmute. shape patterns in the indigenisation2013. and evolution Anchimbe, Eric A. 2014. Attitudes ofpratiques the ex-colonial languages, Englishde andparenté French, and Pidgin English.sociale en Afrique withIn May the 2014, Bayreuth Eva Spies International was appointed Graduate Junior School Professor of African of Religion Studies Studies (BIGSAS). with de l’Ouest. Structural and towards(ed.). Structural Cameroon and English: Sociolinguistic A socio special focus on Africa at the University of Bayreuth. She is also a senior fellow 1 linguistic survey. In: Eric A. Anchimbe

Enfances? Reon Indigenisation - Perspectives and Sociolinguistic Structural Perspectives on Indigenisation: On Mul- présentations In: de Ute l’enfance Fendler en & Afrique Liliana Sociolinguistic tilingualism and Language Evolution. Before taking up the position in Bayreuth, she worked at the University of Mainz etRuth en Amérique Feierstein Latine (eds.). where she also obtained her PhD in Cultural Anthropology in 2006. Her current Perspectives on fields of interest are the diverse forms of Christianity and traditional religion . München: AVM, Indigenisation ¢Dordrecht: Springer, 121-144. in West Africa and Madagascar which she approaches from the perspective of ¢69-85. On Multilingualism and Language - religious plurality, religious anthropologies and modernity. She is particularly im Kosmos der Crosskultur. Hebbel am Evolution Anchimbe, Eric A. 2014. Gender Niger,interested four inedited the interconnections volumes and several between articles politics, in journals development like Afrika and Spectrum religious, UferAlisch,. www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/down Stefanie. 2014. Rendezvous- (ed.).and the Structural use of tags and in CameroonSociolinguistic Eng models of/for society and the self. Among her publications are a monograph on Linguistics lish discourse. In: Eric A. Anchimbe Journal für Entwicklungspolitik, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, among others. ISBN 978-94-007-7880-1 Perspectives on Indigenisation: On Mul- tilingualism and Language Evolution. load/5507/hau_cambodia.pdf.9 789400 778801 Veronica A. Dashaco) Dordrecht: Springer, 145-166 (with

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¢ ro-Fictional In(ter)ventions. Revisist- ¢ Daniel, Antje & Patricia Graf. 2014. Return Migra- ing the BIGSAS-Literature Festival. Transnational - tion in Romance Cultures Anchimbe, Eric A. 2014. Global Bayreuth 2011–2013 - Partnerships:effectiveness. Effectively In: Marianne Providing Beisheim for & Andreas Gelz (eds.). identities or local stigma markers?- Sustainable& Andrea LieseDevelopment? (eds.). Houndsmill: inFrauenbewegungen sich verändernden revisited:nationalen Parund . Freiburg: lieHow Barrat equal (eds.). is the Englishes ‘E’ in Englishes in Multilin in- . Münster: Assem transnationalentizipationsstrategien Handlungsräumen. und -strukturen ¢Rombach, 337-350. - gualCameroon? Contexts: In: LanguageAhmar Mahboob Variation & Lesand ¢blage, 186-190. - Femina Politica - Education Wenn ¢Palgrave Macmillan, 161–189. - Fendler, Ute. 2014.Critical Cinema Interventions in Mo RassismusArndt, aus Susan. Worten 2014. spricht. Wenn Frage, Ras ising on gender intelligent force. In: ¢ Daniel, Antje. 1: 2014.9-20. Der Streit um zambique: New tendencies in a com ¢ . Dordrecht: Springer, 47-62.- Kontroversen,sismus aus Worten Perspektiven. spricht. Zen- Besigiroha, Linda. 2014. Capital plex mediascape. - (eds.). Uganda Police: Celebrating 100+ ¢8 (2): 246-260. ing Anchimbe,the debate Ericon language A. 2014. evolution Indigeni YearsAndrew of Service. M. Mwenda The Independent & Bob Kasango Spe- transnationalerDeutungen: Kenias Normen. Frauenbewegung Forschung- sation and multilingualism: Extend 22.tralwohlfahrtsstelle der Juden in cial Project 020/2014 - sjournalim Kontext Soziale sich Bewegungen pluralisierender Fendler, Ute. 2014. Fabulating the- (ed.). Structural and Sociolinguistic Deutschland e.V. Materialien 185: 15- Indian Ocean – An emerging networkBeyond Perspectivesin Cameroon. on In:Indigenisation: Eric A. Anchimbe On Mul- ¢ Arndt, Susan. 2014. Wie . Kampala: Inde 27 (3): theof imaginaries. 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76 NAB XIV - 2014 NAB XIV - 2014 77 IN MEMORIAM IN BRIEF

1934 –2014 Franz Rottland In Brief

versity of Bayreuth, where he remained until his retire- New on the shelves: Third BIGSAS Journalism Award werement inthe 1997. Southern Influenced Nilotic by and his loveBantu for languages East Africa of and Kenya his understanding of the people, his special fields of interest The BIGSAS World! 2015 linguistic analyses of Nilotic and Bantu languages, and re- We are proud to an- For the third time, BIGSAS has announced its highly ac- and Tanzania. His long list of publications has enriched nounce that the first claimed “BIGSAS Journalism Award” for excellent print thesis, a reconstruction of the Southern Nilotic languages, edition of The BIGSAS and online journalism on Africa in the German language. flects his life-long interest in phonology. His Habilitation World! – the news- The submission of articles written in German opened in letter of the junior December 2014 and ends on 15 February 2015. The award published in 1982 is still the standard reference work for fellows of BIGSAS – was granted for the first time in 2011. It is intended to scholar.any description He was of also Southern a dedicated Nilotic teacherlanguages. who instilled covering the period honour journalistic reports on Africa in the German me- the Butlove Franz of African Rottland linguistics was more in his thanstudents. just aHis respected lectures 2012-2013 has now dia space that are not influenced by prejudices and ste- and tutorials were a legendary mixture of knowledge been published. The reotypes of Africa. As BIGSAS is not only a structure for newsletter offers a training and mentoring doctoral students but also a com- panoramic view of munity that transfers its wide-ranging knowledge on Af- lecturetransfer hours. and personal education given that he usually the junior fellows’ rica to the broader German society, the BIGSAS Journal- spent a lot more time with his students beyond the set academic and social ism Award is part of the outreach programme of BIGSAS. with Christine, his second wife, and there they made a experiences as young Through it, BIGSAS hopes to redress the often distorted After retirement in 1997, he moved to Tiwi, Kenya, researchers in the image of the multifaceted and rich cultural, social and lin- - Bayreuth Internation- guistic structure of African societies. home among the people they felt close to. Franz Rottland al Graduate School Journalists who want to be considered for the award had often regretted not being able to give back to the peo- of African Studies should send their articles or reports on any Africa-related terple hishe met retirement, during his and field so heresearch and his a wifelittle founded of the kindness the As- (BIGSAS). With the broad gamut of the BIGSAS family topic published in the print or online media in the German antethat hee.V. had association received infrom Kenya, them. which This hasbecame funded possible the edu af- both in terms of cultural background and academic train- language to BIGSAS at “[email protected]“. ing, this newsletter offers a diverse range of experiences The jury of the award is led by the emeritus Professor - and life-worlds that are exciting and inspirational, en- of African Studies and former president of the University cation of nearly 600 children and young people in Tiwi. tertaining and conscientious, creative and provocative, of Bayreuth, Helmut Ruppert, and is made up of BIGSAS When he fell ill in 2009, the Rottlands decided to re humorous and philosophical. Besides regular topics like alumni who now live and work in different places around turn to Germany. Here, Roland spent his last years in conference reports, fieldtrip accounts and publications, the world, especially in Africa. This year, the award, which timepeace together and contentment. with his wife Although in the country he lived he quietly loved so in a highlight of the newsletter is the creative column which is worth 2,500€ is donated by the Universitätsverein these years, he did make one journey to Kenya to spend carries poems written by junior fellows in various (Afri- Bayreuth. TEXT Angelika Mietzner can) languages including Fulfulde and Swahili. This first is- much. When Franz fell and broke his shoulder in May sue is a new direction in the outreach programme of BIG- 2014, a difficult time began for him, with operations and SAS, this time from the perspective of the junior fellows. - long stays in hospital. Franz wanted to be at home again, It is edited by Gilbert Ndi Shang, Peter Narh, Samuel Ndo- in peace and free fromSüddeutsche pain. This Zeitung wish in was front fulfilled of him and go (who have already successfully defended their PhD dis- For more information: Franz Rottland, Professor of African Linguistics at the Uni he fell asleep peacefully in the afternoon of 4 August 2014 - his glasses on his nose. sertations), Robert Owino and Šváblová Alžběta (who are www.bigsas.uni-bayreuth.de/jp/ versity of Bayreuth till 1997, died unexpectedly on 4 August – with his beloved guages. This love began when he lived, taught and researched in the final stages of their dissertations). The next edition [email protected] 2014. His life was shaped by his love for East Africa and for lan is scheduled for 2015. In Franz Rottland we have lost a uniquely tolerant- in East African countries: Congo (1965-1969), Uganda (1969- person. He lived in the present, never in the future and 1972) and Kenya (1979-1982). His first wife Margit was with- neverhim with in the unending past. I personally love and gratitude. have lost a father and men ticshim inand the his Netherlands two sons, Jens before and joining Tom, were the academic born there. staff of the tor, a special person who has shaped my life. I think of Franz Rottland obtained his doctorate in African Linguis - andFranz his nine Rottland grandchildren. leaves behind his wife Christine, his University of Cologne. After completing his Habilitation, he sons Jens and Tom, his daughters Susanne and Angelika, was appointed the Chair of African Linguistics II at the Uni

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