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The name is Ikhide. I am an African. This African rises to applaud Jason Russell the filmmaker, and  Invisible Children, the geniuses behind the epic video Kony 2012, a riveting documentary that has now been watched by over 50 million human beings. Kony 2012 is a ringing indictment of a silent horror, of the murderous acts of a barbarian and child murderer Joseph Kony and his sick Lord’s Resistance Army, operating in Uganda and neighboring states. Please stop whatever you are doing if you care about the fate of children in this world and watch this 30-minute film. And when you are done, pay tithe to this wonderful organization that has damned the consequences to tell the truth about the shame that is happening to children in Africa. The world is silent as an indifferent political and intellectual elite sips alien wine in stolen mansions. I say to you Jason Russell, do not stop what you are doing, you are an angel.  Ignore the nattering nabobs of negativity. They are experts at babbling and doing nothing to save Africa’s children.

Let me restate this to our tone deaf Western liberals and their co-opted African intellectuals: Joseph Kony’s deadly acts are being wreaked on beautiful children whose only crime is to be born in the war that Africa has become, thanks to thieving rulers and narcissistic African intellectuals. Watch the video, it is masterful. If it does not bring you to tears, nothing other than onions will. As a brilliant side benefit, it showcases the rank incompetence and barbaric greed of the African intellectual and political elite. Let me restate once more:  I am an African, and I salute Jason Russell and Invisible Children for producing KONY 2012, and for shining a bright light on one of the open sores of Africa (apologies to the venerable Wole Soyinka). I said it, I mean every word, sue me please.

I have been reading on the Internet what appears to be some lame grumbling about the intentions of Russell and  Invisible Children. There has b

The reading room “Center of Unfinished Business”, curated by Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba from Contemporary And, is accessible to all visitors during ifa Gallery Berlin’s opening hours. It provides a selection of books that are connected to the topic in various ways, showing the diverse impacts of colonial legacies and multiple realities of contemporary times. Among these books are loans provided by the association Each One Teach One (EOTO) e.V., a Berlin library on literature, history and current lifes of people of African descent. Furthermore, C& invites various cultural producers to read, perform and discuss in the reading room. C& is pleased that the “Center of Unfinished Business” is also supported by the Canadian foundation Musagetes.

This “Center of Unfinished Business” offers an especially designed reading room structure, which works as a knowledge producing platform. It is one option of bringing together content focusing on the issue of colonialism from subjective perspectives and associative. However, it is not about creating a library on colonialism that is consistent and complete, because: when would it ever be? Colonialism is an unfinished business and keeps existing in many ways.

The “Center of Unfinished Business” stretches the topic into the diverse areas affected by colonialism: What, for example, have Emil Nolde and the German expressionist artist’s collective “Die Brücke” to do with colonialism? It is their romanticizing and at the same time stereotyping perspective on the “beautiful savages” overseas that expresses colonial and biased mindsets.

How is a book about Wall Street and the Occupy movement related to colonialism? The centuries-old ways of taking away and selling off goods from Africa and other, non-Euro-American places and the exploitation of its people built the basis of the successful stock market companies working on a global scale today.

What is a novel by Alexander Pushkin doing in this reading room? In ca