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Zeitgeister

Which topics and discourses are we dealing with worldwide? The online magazine Zeitgeister invites experts, artists and authors to a joint exchange. It offers local and global perspectives – on postcolonialism, sustainability, post-digital cultures, feminism and current affairs.
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Our Contribution to a Global Project
Black History Month

The month of February is known as Black History Month (BHM).
This year, the Goethe-Institut Kigali is contributing to the global project for the first time.
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Feminism Series

International Women's Day is celebrated on 8 March. We have taken this as an opportunity to dedicate the entire month of March to women.

German Language

Magazine

Interview-Series about Passion
Passions of young Rwandans

Foto: ivanovgood © Pixabay This series is about passion. What constitutes passion? What is the significance of passion in our everyday lives? In a series of interviews with different people, we get to know their passion. The focus is on young Rwandans who are pursuing their passion in the professional world.

Intersex
Gender diversity

Impuls Neue Musik Photo (detail) © HannaH Walter At the beginning of 2019, population registers in Germany were amended to include a third gender category. The option box is headed ‘divers’, which translates as ‘miscellaneous’ or ‘other’, and it was introduced for a dual purpose: to remove the burden from parents faced with deciding an intersex child’s future and to show that being different can also be normal.

Reclaiming Space
Expanding Voices from Africa Online

Attendees of the "Wikimania" in 2013 Photo (detail): Alex Hofford © picture alliance / dpa There is more content on “Wikipedia” about France than about all the states of Africa combined. The WikiAfrica Education initiative aims to counter that. Adama Sanneh, co-founder and CEO of the Moleskine Foundation, the organisation which founded this initiative, discusses the importance of adding African languages and histories to online databases and the global discourse.

Projects

Decolonize the Internet

Wikipedia Competition cropped Goethe Institut If you want to learn how to write, edit and publish articles on Wikipedia, then this is for you!

Learning feminism from Rwanda

Feminisms instead cropped Goethe Institut What experiences of female self-determination and equal rights can be found on the continent? What civil society commitments are activists and artists focusing on? "Learning Feminisms" explores these questions in a variety of local and national formats.