OUSMANE
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OUSMANE is about a man who is homesick and shows signs of depression. He meets Edith, his neighbor who makes him think of his mother and he takes care of her as she is his mother.
OUSMANE Direction: Jorge Camarotti, digital, OmeU, 25 min
Guests
In 1986, at the age of 4, Molley fled the civil war in Liberia for Germany. There, in the late 1990s, he discovered hip-hop. It's not only musically that he takes a clear stand against racism, sexism, homophobia, hatred and violence, he's also an active member of the N-Wort Stoppen Initiative and cooperates with other initiatives.
Joanna Peprah is the spokesperson for the Cologne local group and an advisor to the Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland e. V. (ISD) and co-founder of the "N-Wort Stoppen" initiative. In 2022, she was appointed to the Expert:innengremium (Post)Colonial Heritage of Cologne. In 2023, she was awarded the Cologne Volunteer Award for Democracy and Diversity.
Phyllis Quartey is mother, activist, educational consultant and a poet. She deals with the issues of anti-racism, colonialism and empowerment in the initiatives “N-Wort Stoppen”, “Decolonize-Wuppertal” and in various workshops. Her main concern is to enable a critical examination of the history of colonialism and its effects until today.