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src=\"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DSCF2520_inPixio.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-4724\" alt=\"Visibiliti Media \/ Afrika Film Festival K\u00f6ln\" srcset=\"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DSCF2520_inPixio.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DSCF2520_inPixio-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DSCF2520_inPixio-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DSCF2520_inPixio-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DSCF2520_inPixio-391x260.jpg 391w, https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DSCF2520_inPixio-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" title=\"\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption 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Actors from Cologne&#8217;s Afro-diasporic communities make their wide-ranging commitment visible. Exhibitions, discussions and workshops reveal a complex, multi-layered and creative picture of modern Africa and its diaspora. Topics range from African start-ups, discourse around (post)-colonial heritage, to empowerment and consulting work.<\/p>\n<p>The view of Africa and black people in Germany is overshadowed by a colonial past that is still largely suppressed and continues to have a political impact today. &#8220;African Futures &#8211; Together on the Way&#8221; explores the question of what this shared history means for living together in Cologne today and creates space for discourse and encounter.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2d49b48 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2d49b48\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-38146a4 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"38146a4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;motion_fx_motion_fx_scrolling&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;motion_fx_translateY_effect&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;motion_fx_translateY_direction&quot;:&quot;negative&quot;,&quot;motion_fx_opacity_effect&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;motion_fx_opacity_range&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;%&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:{&quot;start&quot;:28,&quot;end&quot;:63}},&quot;motion_fx_translateY_speed&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:5.4000000000000003552713678800500929355621337890625,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;motion_fx_opacity_direction&quot;:&quot;out-in-out&quot;,&quot;motion_fx_translateY_affectedRange&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;%&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:{&quot;start&quot;:22,&quot;end&quot;:49}},&quot;motion_fx_opacity_level&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:10,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;motion_fx_devices&quot;:[&quot;desktop&quot;,&quot;tablet&quot;,&quot;mobile&quot;]}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\"I\u2019ve always strongly believed that in order for us to know where we\u2019re going as Africans, we need to know where we\u2019re coming from. 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