Amsterdam | De Balie
Sat 12 October, 19h00

This year’s festival has a special focus on artists from North-Africa and the North African diaspora. North-African countries are often not considered African, but seen as Arabic countries. How do artists from North-African descent or from the North-African diaspora express their identity in art? What is their sense of belonging? And how do they relate to ‘Black’ culture?

“When I see a picture or representation of the African continent, such as on jewellery or in/on artistic works, the depiction is usually of a single continent. The North is not cut off. That would be ridiculous. Yet in political, academic and other analyses of Africa, the North is somehow removed from the continent, and this is not considered ridiculous.

Nuunja Khaina in This is Africa