Gefördert im Fonds TURN der Kulturstiftung des Bundes im Rahmen des Projekts SCHULD

WATCH & WRITE

Twelve culture journalists from ten African countries are coming to Braunschweig to accompany the festival in writing and discuss their work with each other: what criteria can be used to measure art? How do you evaluate art when you don’t know about its social and political context? How can uninterested editorial boards be convinced to cover cultural topics? How crazy and playful can new kinds of texts and formats be? And how can culture journalists network with each other on the African continent?

Sérgio Raimundo (Mozambique) is mainly a film and art critic. He has also published two volumes of poetry and worked as a curator.

Yvon Edoumou (Côte d'Ivoire/Democratic Republic of the Congo) is a culture manager and entrepeneur. He also works as a culture journalist and blogger. 

Stéphanie Dongmo Djuka (Cameroon) was chief culture editor at Le Jour newspaper and now mainly writes for pan-African media. She also trains culture journalists and publishes short stories.

Heba El-Sherif (Egypt) works as a journalist and culture critic for the independent English-language online newspaper Mada Masr.

Ismail Fayed (Egypt) is a critic and scholar who works mainly on visual art and film.

Enos Nyamor (Kenya) is a culture journalist writing mainly about visual art, literature and the performing arts. He works for various publications, including the weekly newspaper, the Sunday Nation.

Milisuthando Bongela (South Africa) works as a culture editor for the newspaper Mail & Guardian and has been awarded several prizes for her work. She’s currently working on a documentary film about black identity in South Africa.

Aboubacar Demba Cissokho (Senegal) works as a culture editor for the Senegalese press agency APS. He also writes a blog.

Monica Nkodo (Cameroon) is in charge of the culture department at the daily paper the Cameroon Tribune, which was redesigned and expanded under her leadership. Her focus is on theatre and film.

Caroline Uliwa (Tanzania) works as a culture journalist and columnist for various newspapers and magazines. 

Ayodeji Rotinwa (Nigeria) works as a reporter for culture, development and social innovation for the daily newspaper This Day.

Carla Lever (South Africa) has a PhD in performance studies, in which she researched South African identity. She works as a theatre critic and culture journalist and has also taught as a lecturer.

Led by: Mounia Meiborg (Süddeutsche Zeitung) and Parfait Tabapsi (www.mosaiques.com)

Funded by the TURN Fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung des Bundes)