The Power of Culture

Virtually everyone comes to see the gorillas or to enjoy the spectacular natural beauty of the 'country of a thousand hills'. But the government wants more than eco-tourism.

According to Alem Desta, writer of Candace: Invincible women of Ethiopia most Ethiopians have no idea what women in the arts and in the cultural sector contribute to society.

Malinese master bricklayers created a business for the preservation of the loam architecture in Djenné. In addition they promote local employment.

How can museums from the South prevent putting more energy in contacts with western museums than with their own environment? Young museum professionals from Africa, Asia and Latin-America on May 15 and 16, 2008 joined their Dutch counterparts in order to discuss this issue and others.

Ethiopian and Dutch photographers offer a contemporary view of Ethiopia in a collective exhibition.

The Broken Memory Project was set up by a select group of artists, researchers, writers and exhibition organisers. It consists of an exhibition, debates, a series of films and a book.

For one month ten Sudanese living in other countries, from the New Sudan Organizations Network, traveled through the country. During conversations, but also in the shape of music, dance and theatre, they tried to contribute to the rebuilding of peace in an ethnically divided region.