Africa Agenda
In the month before the Africaday there are several events on Africa and African culture. Discussions, musical performances and other activities are organized throughout the Netherlands. So get in the Africa mood!
From the 11th of March until the 29th of May you can swing
with the Daugthers of Africa. The musical show, Daughters of Africa, offers promising women from 9 different African countries an opportunity to show their skills on stage. These vital young African women, who fill every place with a positive vibe, will perform in a spectacular show with music that has African roots as well as contemporary spirit. Their performance is a good example of the way in which art and culture can make difficult topics more easy to discuss.
From 1 April to 31 October in the Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal: how the Kasena of northern Ghana design their dwellings. Songo shows the construction process of the house and introduces visitors to its residents. In an architecture that is created without a plan, text or language, it is the everyday actions of women that continuously create the house.
Below you find an overview of several events on Africa until the end of April. Is there an event missing, let us know and we will add it.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 11 mrt - 29 mei | Daughters of Africa (throughout the country) |
| 25 mrt - 31 mrt | Movies That Matter Festival (in The Hague) |
| 25 mrt - 25 aug | Photo exhibition Gentlemen of Bacongo (in Amsterdam) |
| 1 apr - 31 okt | Exhibition Songo in the Afrika Museum (in Berg en Dal) |
| 2 apr - 29 aug | Portrait Cloths exhibition 'Long live the President' (in Amsterdam) |
| 9 - 17 apr | Fatoumata Diawara Malinese music and dance performance (in several Dutch cities) |
| 9 apr | The Malinese guitar player Vieux Farka Touré (in Nijmegen) |
| 12 apr | Farewell Lecture Leo de Haan (director African Studies Centre) (in Leiden) |
| 12 apr | ISS Development Research Seminar: Counterycyclical Macro Policy for Low Income Countries in Africa (in The Hague) |
| 13 - 14 apr | Movie 'Lumumba' (in Amsterdam) |
| 15 apr | NGO Security Conference 2010: 'Acceptance: Limits and Possibilities' (in Amsterdam) |
| 22 apr | Movie 'Jupiters Dance' (in Amsterdam) |
| 24 apr | AFRICADAY 2010 (in the Hague) |
| 24 apr | Musical performance 'Sam Mangwana & Odenba Ok All Stars' (in Amsterdam) |
| 25 apr | Musical performance 'The HA!Man' (in Amsterdam) |
| 25 apr | Lecture 'George Weah' (in Nijmegen) |
| 19 - 20 jun | Festival Mundial (in Tilburg) |
Other calendars of activities in the area of non-Western culture, development and international cooperation you find on The Power of Culture.
