Message from the Editors, Table of Content
Speaking, Narrating, Remembering
Striking continuity
What makes the Nigerian film so successful
By Pia Barth
Searching for the silenced memory
Literary studies in Zimbabwe embark on the search for alternative narratives
By Tanaka Chidora
“At home, we didn't even have a book about Africa"
Now and then: an intergenerational dialogue on African Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt
By Anke Sauter
Immersion in a new language
How Africans in the Rhine-Main region learn German
By Axel Fanego Palat
African scholars at Goethe University Frankfurt
Alain Joseph Sissao and Thompson Gyedu Kwarkye
Peace, Democracy, Future
A country between hope and uncertainty
Democracy, mobility and biotechnology in Tunisia after 2011
By Veit Bachmann, Kmar Bendana and Betty Rouland
Home advantage?
Local perspectives on the peace efforts of African regional organisations
By Antonia Witt, Omar M. Bah, Sophia Birchinger, Sait Matty Jaw, Adjara Konkobo and Simone Schnabel
Paradoxical successes, expected failures
Development projects in Africa
By Helmut Asche
Money can't always build a better community
The impact of World Bank participatory development projects in The Gambia
By Anke Sauter
The myth of development cooperation
Increasing demands from donor organisations make regional actors' work more difficult
By Jonas Krumbein
An ambivalent partnership
The AFRASO programme shed light on the complex relations between Africa and Asia – with a focus on China
By Uta Ruppert and Stefan Schmid
Spotlight on Africa
From Africa research to Africa-related research
A change in perspective can be observed in all disciplines
By Kokou Azamede and Hans Peter Hahn
Research in Africa – who is talking about whom?
Insights into the debate on representation, decolonisation and the future of African Studies
By Melanie Gärtner
Faces of Frankfurt
Mamadou Diawara
Learning from each other
The Frobenius Institute and the Oswin Köhler Archive have been cooperating closely with African partners for years
By Jonas Krumbein
Africa Alive
Frankfurt has hosted the annual film festival since 1994
By Anke Sauter
From slavery to Barack Obama
Simon Wendt, Professor of American Studies, on the multifaceted significance of Africa for Black America
By Dirk Frank
History without Words
News from the Stone Age
Archaeologists from Frankfurt study rock art in the Namib Desert
By Peter Breunig and Gabriele Franke
Small pieces, big impact
What carbonised plant remains and clay shards reveal about the Nok culture 3,000 years ago in West Africa
By Katja Irle
Far-travelled fragments
Archaeology wants to trace intra-African connections by analysing pottery
By Sonja Magnavita and Oumarou Amadou Idé
Teeth of our ancestors
Discovery of a lower jaw in Malawi and what happened next
By Markus Bernards
Climate, Earth, Environment
An attempt to rescue the savannahs
Impacts of climate change and adaptation strategies
By Andreas Lorenz-Meyer
Here we go gathering!
A German-Beninese team is studying the world of fungi in West Africa
By Stefanie Hense
Going with the flow
How climate and land use affect river sediments
By Markus Bernards
News
Legal notice, Illustration credits
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