Deberlinization: Refabulating the World, a Theory of Praxis

140 years after the end of the Berlin/Congo Conference (1884–85) that resulted in the division of the African continent among the industrial and military powers of the time, a three-day programme at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Germany, reflected on the urgency and potentials of a Deberlinization process—an endeavour to disentangle this complex of colonial appropriation, identify its after-effects, and question its epistemological legacy.

This volume documents the contributions to the Deberlinization conference and presents the academic research, essays, polemics, and literary approaches that emerged from it. Through a transformative poetics of relation between creative action and forms of resistance, history, and memory it considers alternative narratives on the prevailing world order and possible future trajectories.

With contributions by Yousra Abourabi, Didier Awadi, Jean Godefroy Bidima, Memory Biwa, Mansour Ciss Kanakassy, Daniele G. Daude, Nikita Dhawan, Mamadou Diouf, Soeuf Elbadawi, Christine Eyene, Tiken Jah Fakoly, N’Goné Fall, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Maame A.S. Mensa-Bonsu, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Simon Njami, Ladan Osman, Raphaëlle Red, Mahamadou Lamine Sagna, Alioune Sall, Felwine Sarr, ¿ni¿lá Ànúolúwap¿¿ ¿óy¿mí, Hildegard Titus, Abdourahman Waberi, Hyam Yared

Curated by Ibou Coulibaly Diop, Franck Herman Ekra, and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung