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Silence is My Mother Tongue

By: abf-admin On: 31. Oktober 2020

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The African Book Festival Berlin is an initiative for more diversity in Berlin’s and Germany’s cultural and literary scene. InterKontinental also runs a bookstore specialized on African literature in Berlin-Friedrichshain.

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Titled Voices From the Beginning – Books Born From Songs the author of Também os brancos sabem dançar – an autobiographically inspired fictionalised biography of Kuduro – explores the manifold entanglements of music and literature. The conversations with the guests about their works are accompanied by their musical inspirations. In addition the actors Martha Fessehatzion and Moses Leo will perform staged readings of passages of the texts in question.

Guests:

José Eduardo Agualusa [Angola | Mozambique]
acclaimed Angolan writer / journalist, host of the RTP Africa programme A Hora das Cigarras on African music and Poetry

Ondjaki [Angola | Brazil]
filmmaker and witer of novels, short stories and childrens literature and music enthusiast

Telma Tvon [Angola | Portugal]
HipHop artist and author of the novel Um preto muito português

Yara Monteiro [Angola | Portugal | Brazil]
writer and visual artist

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Toty Sa’Med [Angola]singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, one of the leading artists of the New Angolan Music scene. His influences range from Psychedelic Rock to Jazz, from Soul to Semba—the prototypical genre at the heart of modern Angolan music.

Stay tuned for the main events of the African Book Festival 2021 in Berlin 27th-29th May 2021: www.africanbookfestival.de

African Book Festival 2021 - Voices from the Beginning | München

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African Book Festival 2021 - Voices From the Beginning | Leipzig

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Am 14. November 2020 stellte Flora Veit-Wild im Gespräch mit Julius Heinicke (Professor für Kulturpolitik an der Universität Hildesheim) ihr jüngst bei Jacana Media erschienenes Buch They Called You Dambudzo vor.Die emeritierte Professorin für afrikanische Literaturen an der Humboldt-Universität Berlin setzt mit ihren Memoiren dem früh verstorbenen simbabwischen Schriftsteller Dambudzo Marechera ein Denkmal. Dabei nimmt die sehr persönliche und intime Beziehung der beiden einen zentralen Platz ein.

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On 14 November 2020, Flora Veit-Wild presented her book They Called You Dambudzo, recently published by Jacana Media, in conversation with Julius Heinicke (Professor of Cultural Politics at the University of Hildesheim).With her memoir, the emeritus professor for African Literatures at the Humboldt University Berlin pays tribute to the Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, who died at an early age. The very personal and intimate relationship between the two occupies a central place in the book.

About the book

This book is a memoir with a 'double heartbeat'. At its centre is the author's relationship with the late Zimbabwean writer, Dambudzo Marechera, whose award-winning book The House of Hunger marked him as a powerful, disruptive, perhaps prophetic voice in African literature. Flora Veit-Wild is internationally recognised for her significant contribution to preserving Marechera's legacy. What is less known is that they had an intense, personal and sexual relationship. This memoir explores this: the couple's first encounter in 1983, amidst the euphoria of the newly independent Zimbabwe; the tumultuous months when the homeless writer moved in with his lover and her family; the bouts of creativity once he had his own flat followed by feelings of abandonment; the increasing despair about a love affair that could not stand up against reality.; and the illness of the writer and his death of HIV-related pneumonia in August 1987. What follows are the struggles Flora went through once Dambudzo had died. On the one hand, she became the custodian of his life and work, on the other she had to live with her own HIV infection and the ensuing threats to her health.

Book Launch "They Called You Dambudzo" | Flora Veit-Wild im Gespräch mit Julius Heinicke

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Siphiwe Ndlovu is a Zimbabwean writer, scholar and filmmaker. Her debut novel, 'The Theory of Flight', was published by Penguin Random House (SA) in 2018. She has just finished writing her second novel 'The History of Man'. She is a recipient of a 2018 Morland Scholarship and is currently working on her third novel, 'The Murder of Emil Coetzee'. She holds a PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University.

Tête-à-Tête with Siphiwe Ndlovu moderated by Marlene Schneider #ABF 2019

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Emmanuel Sigauke has been published in poetry and fiction anthologies, and his collection of short stories, "Mukoma's Marriage and other Stories", was a finalist in the 2015 NAMA awards, Zimbabwe.

Tête-à-Tête with Emmanuel Sigauke moderated by Nora Chirikure #ABF2019

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Tsitsi Dangarembga from Zimbabwe is an internationally known filmmaker, screenwriter and novelist and has been awarded numerous prizes. She has published her debut novel "Nervous Conditions" in 1988, at the age of 25. The novel has become an absolute classic and has been translated into various languages. It was listed on the May 2018 list of 100 stories that shaped the world by BBC. Her latest novel "This mournable Body" was just released last year.

Tête-à-Tête with Tsitsi Dangarembga moderated by Flora Veit Wild #ABF2019

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Tête-à-Tête session with the author of "The January Children" (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), which received the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and a 2018 Arab American Book Award. Safia Elhillo is co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books, 2019) and was listed in Forbes Africa’s 2018 “30 Under 30.”

Moderated by Nick Makoha
Presented by Wasafiri

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Tête-à-Tête with Safia Elhillo | moderated by Nick Makoha #ABF2019

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Tête-à-Tête session with the author of "House Of Stone" (Atlantic Books, 2018). Moderated by Venice Trommer (InterKontinental).

This session was part of the AFRICAN BOOK FESTIVAL BERLIN 2019.

Tête-à-Tête with Novuyo Rosa Tshuma #ABF2019

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"Writing in Migration", Berlin´s very first African Book Festival took place in 2018. Curated by Nigerian-German poet and author Olumide Popoola, more than 40 of the most popular African and/or African-diasporic writers and artists came together to speak abouth their craft.
Here: Curator Olumide Popoola in Conversation with Headliner and acclaimed Author and Poet Chris Abani (26th April 2018)

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Olumide Popoola and Chris Abani | African Book Festival 2018

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