November 2026

Daniel Kehlmann’s 'Africa' recounts the Berlin Congo Conference of 1884–85 and holds up a bitterly comic mirror to our present day. Yet this satire on the powerful figures of that era also reveals the limitations of its narrative.

In "Die Last der Sonne", Matthias Häussler describes the wars waged by the Ovaherero and Nama against German colonial rule in Namibia – self-assured Africans come up against racist contempt for humanity.