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Five years of ACT - five perspectives

Since 4 May 2020, the ACT has been making African perspectives at the University of Freiburg and in the city more visible and promoting reciprocal research between Africa and Europe. We celebrate our fifth anniversary in May 2025.

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Date and Place
Reading and discussion: ‘Issa’ by Mirrianne Mahn

Weertje Willms (German Seminar, University of Freiburg) joins students in conversation with the author.

14.05.2025
19:30

jos fritz Cafe

Vernissage: The Currency Lab

This long-term artistic project explores the utopian potential of currencies and other value systems for an emancipatory future on the planet in dialogue with artists, musicians and scientists from Africa

15.05.2025
19:00

E WERK

Film screening: ‘Forgotten Voices’

The documentary film ‘Forgotten Voices’ vividly tells the painful stories of people who have been displaced from their homes due to the ongoing wars and conflicts in Sudan.

 in co-operation with Amica e.V.

18.05.2025
19:30

KoKi Freiburg

Migration - The challenge of the 21st century

Reading and discussion on Migration in Africa and to Europe

with Bartholomäus Grill, Daniela Evers MdL, Laura Lambert, Yayha Sonko, Franzisca Zanker

26.05.2025 7:30pm

Catholic Academy of the Archdiocese of Freiburg

Freiburg Africa Talks: The Rule of Law and the ‘Many Democracies’

An event as part of the ‘Freiburg Africa Talks’ series organised by the ACT together with the Colloquium Politicum of the University of Freiburg.

with Prof Dr Edwin Etieyibo, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)

16.06.2025
20:00

Short Story Reading: The Spiritual Mechanics of Within

Reading and discussion with Bumni Agusto and Dr Stephanie Boye, as part of the exhibition The Currency Lab

24.06.2025 19:00

Kammertheater E WERK

Scientific lecture: ‘Colonial violence and postcolonial identity: in search of self-determination in West Africa’

with Dr Kokou Azamede from the University of Lomé in Togo in cooperation with the Research Training Group 2571 and the De/Coloniality Now initiative

08.07.2025 20:00

HS1228, KG1