Suivez vous, follow us, folgt uns!

Here is the launch of the blog ‚The Red Couch - A Portrait of Africa’, which will accompany us and, we hope, you over the next 5 years. This is where we - my co-author Judith Büthe and I - will be sharing with you our observations, reflections and the creative production process on a regular basis (weekly, if we can manage it and if we have Internet access) …

On the basis of our experiences here, we will likewise express our opinions on the major issues that affect the continent; for example, the present and the future, the environment and the natural world, colonisation and decolonisation, social issues and the economy, rural areas and big cities, digitisation and industry, history and the zeitgeist, lifestyles and the family, woman and man, polygamy and matriarchy, Islam, Christianity und
animistic religions …