Paulette Nardal News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

African-born director’s new vision for Berlin cultural magnet

One of the rare African-born figures to head a German cultural institution, Bonaventure Ndikung is aiming to highlight post-colonial multiculturalism at a Berlin arts centre with its roots in Western hegemony.Throughout the summer, there will also be performances, concerts, films, discussions and an exhibition of contemporary art from post-colonial societies across Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania.

Ndikung is one of the few people of African origin to head a German cultural institution, having been appointed as head of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Through a range of exhibitions, he aims to highlight post-colonial multiculturalism in a place that has long been emblematic of Western hegemony

Little Black Book, Agency launches open-air museum and short film

Olivette Otele’s African Europeans: An Untold History begins in 23 BC and ends in the present day, spanning two continents, from Sweden to Senegal, from Portugal to St Petersburg. Inevitably such ambitious scope requires a focus. Otele, who became the UK’s first female Black history professor in 2018, covers the terrain by orienting her study around extraordinary figures from each period.  Beginning in the Roman era, Otele explores how officials such as Marcus Cornelius Fronto and Emperor Septimius Severus navigated their African and Roman identities. Staying in the Mediterranean, a dis...