Reiseprogramm London
10.-13. Juni 2005

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Freitag, 10. Juni 2005

  • 09.40 Uhr: Abflug Berlin Schönefeld

  • 10.30 Uhr: Ankunft London Stansted

  • 12.00 Uhr: Einchecken im „Hotel“

  • 14.00 Uhr: Britain’s Africa Policy and the Report of the Commission for Africa
    Gespräch mit Rosemary Stevenson (Department for International Development, DFID, Afrikareferat, ehem. stellv. Leiterin des Büros der Africa Commission) im DFID

  • 16.00 Uhr: Africa und New Labor – Renewal of an old passion?
    Treffen mit Member of Parliament (Angefragt), im Parlament

Samstag, 11. Juni 2005

  • 09.00 Uhr: 500 Years Black London – Guided City Tour with Steve Martin

    Whitehall - History of the Black Guardsmen 1680-1850’s; Black routs and taverns; Famous lives: Westminster - Ignatius Sancho; Covent Garden - Mary Seacole, Paul Robeson; Trafalgar Square – the black presence in the Gordon Riots; Trafalgar Square - Black British radicals of the 18th & 19th centuries; ‘Freaks’ and curios, beggars and fairs – Charing Cross; Strand/Covent Garden - Characters, haunts and habits of the St. Giles Blackbirds; Wits and wenches - Julius Soubise, Francis Barber and Covent Garden’s ‘ladies in mourning’; Actors and performers - Ira Aldridge and Samuel Coleridge Taylor.

  • 14.00 Uhr: The African Diaspora and Africa’s ‘Development’
    Treffen mit Onyekachi Wambu, Information Officer bei AFFORD - The African Foundation for Development (31-33 Bondway, Vauxhall Cross, London SW8 1SJ, Tel: +44 (0)20 7587 3900)

  • 16.00 Uhr: Nachmittag und Abend zur freien Gestaltung (Vorschläge)

    • Besuch des Africa Book Centre
      (38 King Street, Covent Garden, London WC2 8JT, Tel: +44 (0)20 7240 6649)
    • Back to Black – Art, Cinema and Racial Imagery: Open Screening

  • 20.00 Uhr: Moolaadé (Bambara with English subtitles)
    Acclaimed as his masterpiece, Ousmane Sembene's most recent film tackles the highly sensitive subject of female circumcision


Sonntag, 12. Juni 2005

  • 09.00 Uhr: Vormittag zur freien Gestaltung

  • 13.00 Uhr: Views from Africa – Africa at the British Museum
    (Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG, Underground: Holborn, Tottenham Court Road, Russell Square, Goodge St.)

    No one could have guessed how the world would change when Europeans first arrived in West Africa 500 years ago. Views from Africa, the second season of Africa at the British Museum, tells a story of the most ordinary and extraordinary encounters. African encounters extend well beyond Europe, however. Human culture began on the continent and its influence, from Egypt to America, is captured in a new trail: ‘Africa around the Museum’. Wealth of Africa the iconographic development of a continent through its economic administration; Tree of Life installation made from weapons decommissioned from the Mozambique civil war; Africa in the British Museum lecture looks at Africa's place in world history through the museum's galleries; Ground Force Africa Garden with newly commissioned sculptures, the garden has been designed as a walk through the continent, with 3 sections: desert, tropical and temperate. Visitors to the garden will be able to make connections between the plant life, its native cultures and the African objects inside the British Museum; Mummy: the Inside Story acclaimed 3D journey into an unopened 3000 year old mummy (Admission Charge)

  • 16.00 Uhr: Zimbabwe’s Future – What about its diaspora?
    Gespräch mit Wilf Mbanga (Chefredakteur der Zeitung ‚The Zimbabwean’) im British Museum (angefragt)

  • 19.30 Uhr: Abend zur freien Gestaltung
    • Candido Fabre y su Banda (Cuba)
      Candido Fabre wird als einer der besten Singer-Songwriter Kubas und der afrokubanischen Musik gehandelt. Seine Lieder werden in der ganzen Welt gesungen, er schreibt und komponiert für viele Künstler, die die kubanische Musik bekannt gemacht haben. Sein Gefühl für Improvisation und Rhythmus haben ihn zum eigenwilligsten Interpreten des Son werden lassen

Montag, 13. Juni 2005

  • 11.30 Uhr: The Africa Centre and the Empowerment of the African Diaspora
    Gespräch mit Dr. Adotey Bing, Direktor des Africa Centre (38 King Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E; Underground: Covent Garden on the Picadilly Line)


  • 14.00 Uhr: Southern Africa – British Africa Policy under Scrunity
    Treffen mit dem Direktor von Action Southern Africa, Ort ist noch zu klären


  • 18.40 Uhr: Abflug aus London Stansted


  • 21.30 Uhr: Landung in Berlin Schönefeld