biotechnologist. He is currently serving as Director and chief curator of Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) Berlin. In 2009, he founded SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin and assumed the position of artistic director until 2022. He is also the artistic director of the 13th Bamako Encounters in Mali and a
is a Assistant Professor in Afrikanistik at the University of Bayreuth specializing in, among others, Afrophone literatures, African youth languages in the diaspora, and critical African studies. He studied linguistics and English literature in Cameroon and African linguistics, literatures in African languages, and developmental sociology at the University of Bayreuth,
Born in the city of Yaoundé, Cameroon in 1960, Elisabeth Hack worked as a nurse and businesswoman in her home city before settling in Germany in 2000. Here she participated as a member and activist in the organisation »Flüchtlingsinitiative Brandenburg«, which is active on behalf of asylum seekers. She has
