The premiere book presentation of "Also By Mail" by Olumide Popoola on Saturday, February 16th was a great success. Well attended (over 80 people) and well received, this was the second of the Black History Month 2013 series of events in Frankfurt, which opened on Saturday, February 2nd with a launch party in Circus.
For the entire BHM 2013 programme visit the ISD website.
Further book presentations are planned in Berlin (Friday, March 1st) and in Hamburg (Friday, March 29th). For more information watch this space!
The second publication in the Witnessed series will be launched this month in Frankfurt!
"Also By Mail" is a modern family comedy-drama by author and poet Olumide Popoola. It follows the experiences of Nigerian German siblings Funke and Wale who fly to Nigeria to bury their suddenly deceased father. Their upbringing clashes with their uncle’s expectations and initial misunderstandings soon come to an éclat. When Wale returns to Germany, frustrated, he is bitterly reminded of how little his father acknowledged and prepared them for racist encounters there.
Loss and racism, sibling rivalry and cross-cultural etiquette, the play incorporates and subverses it’s urban, neo-African elements of story-telling to give a contemporary picture of a family that struggles not only with the legacy of its patriarch but with being racialized within the German context as well. Where does each stand in a circle of relations and needs? Where does each want to end up? And who is willing to help? It takes an inside-outside job to lighten the mood and the surprise startles them all.
