Reading and talk with Tendai Huchu and musical accompaniment

More dialog between Africa and Europe? In one area, it seems to be making wonderful progress: The diverse movement of Afrofuturism is also reaching many young people in our country. Tendai Huchu, originally from Zimbabwe, seems to be doing everything right. His urban-fantasy books about the adolescent Ropa Moyo are equally appealing to young people and adults. They are rooted as firmly in Scottish history as in African myths, they look at social conditions with skepticism and trust in the resilience of the disadvantaged.

Two years ago, Tendai Huchu was a guest at an unforgettable evening at the Dragon Days fantasy festival at the Linden Museum, back then as a shooting star. Now he has lost his German publisher again, and the situation in the UK is also becoming increasingly difficult for him and many of his colleagues.

What’s going on? What is becoming of the dialog between Africa and Europe in literature? How are authors with their own profile coping in a world of manipulated book trends? Has a cynical entertainment market already banished Afrofuturism to the leftover cellar as last season’s fashion? It will be an exciting evening full of questions that not only concern literature.

Moderator: Thomas Klingenmaier

In English language

Reservation: Tel. 0711.2022-444, anmeldung@lindenmuseum.de