Introduction
Adetoun Küppers-Adebisi (Dipl.-Wirt.Ing., Author, curator, journalist and lecturer for black German literatures, culture and media, MINT - ambassador and diversity coordinator for civil society and Berlin administration.)
With her doctoral thesis on gender and anti-racism Perspective, she plans post & decolonial paradigm shifts in the categories of waste management, neo-colonialism and nation. She lectured at universities in Fulda and Göttingen, Hamburg Bremen and Berlin.
As president of AFROTAK TV cyberNomads and federal executive of The African Network Germany TANG, she realizes concepts for black and diasporic knowledge productions (educational archive, multimedia lab, online platform). She was the German speaker for the African Union in Paris and for the UN Decade for People of African Descent in Geneva. As a project coordinator, she closes gaps that are not covered in the mainstream (Black Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art and Discourse, DOCUMENTA Africana Germanica, Black Media Congress Berlin, National Action Plan against Racism & Ethnic Discrimination Berlin, DaMigra – Women migrant umbrella organisation).
As a chosen guarantor deputy she initiates cultural-political inclusion, lobbies and cooperation with institutions such as House of World Cultures HKW, Goethe Institute, Federal Agency for Political Education BPB, Heinrich-Boell-, Friedrich-Ebert- and Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation. UNESCO Germany proclaimed in 2004 the co-initiated literature prize as a project to commemorate the slave trade and its abolition (May-Ayim-Award). She was honored by Black Heritage magazine in 2010, 2013 and 2017 as one of the most important Afro-Germans. And the Berlin Senate, the Federal Government and the European Union have repeatedly honored her innovative approaches and interventions into civil society. In 2018 she was selected as a scholarship holder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Expert
Adetoun Küppers-Adebisi (Dipl.-Wirt.Ing., Author, curator, journalist and lecturer for black German literatures, culture and media, MINT - ambassador and diversity coordinator for civil society and Berlin administration.)
With her doctoral thesis on gender and anti-racism Perspective, she plans post & decolonial paradigm shifts in the categories of waste management, neo-colonialism and nation. She lectured at universities in Fulda and Göttingen, Hamburg Bremen and Berlin.
As president of AFROTAK TV cyberNomads and federal executive of The African Network Germany TANG, she realizes concepts for black and diasporic knowledge productions (educational archive, multimedia lab, online platform). She was the German speaker for the African Union in Paris and for the UN Decade for People of African Descent in Geneva. As a project coordinator, she closes gaps that are not covered in the mainstream (Black Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art and Discourse, DOCUMENTA Africana Germanica, Black Media Congress Berlin, National Action Plan against Racism & Ethnic Discrimination Berlin, DaMigra – Women migrant umbrella organisation).
As a chosen guarantor deputy she initiates cultural-political inclusion, lobbies and cooperation with institutions such as House of World Cultures HKW, Goethe Institute, Federal Agency for Political Education BPB, Heinrich-Boell-, Friedrich-Ebert- and Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation. UNESCO Germany proclaimed in 2004 the co-initiated literature prize as a project to commemorate the slave trade and its abolition (May-Ayim-Award). She was honored by Black Heritage magazine in 2010, 2013 and 2017 as one of the most important Afro-Germans. And the Berlin Senate, the Federal Government and the European Union have repeatedly honored her innovative approaches and interventions into civil society. In 2018 she was selected as a scholarship holder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Fields of expertise: Culture, Education, Gender equality