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Latitude – Street in Berlin-Mitte renamed as Anton Wilhelm-Amo-Straße

Anton Wilhelm Amo
A Transnational Memory

Initiatives and researchers in Germany, the USA, the Netherlands and Ghana have joined forces to the “Anton Wilhelm Amo Legacy” to honour Anton Wilhelm Amo. Amo gained his doctorate in the 18th century as the first African philosopher in Europe, and was the first non-white professor to lecture at German universities.

Photo (detail): © Kéré Architecture

Sustainable architecture: the new Goethe-Institut in Dakar
Back to the Future

(05 July 2021)
The Senegalese capital Dakar is the setting for the new Goethe-Institut designed by architect Francis Kéré from Burkina Faso. It embodies architecture as a cultural, societal and climatologically evolved term.

©Goethe-Institut Ghana/ John Owoo

Wole Soyinka in a chat at Goethe-Institut

Easily one of Africa’s greatest writers and most inventive advocates of native culture, Soyinka shares his views on various issues with a Ghanaian anthologist