Daima Exhibition in Wiesbaden - Opening Saturday March 11th

I am excited to announce that exhibition to accompany the publication "Daima. Images of Women of Colour in Berlin" by the late Nzitu Mawakha will be shown again in Wiesbaden during March 2017.

"Daima" is a collection of black and white images of Black women from or living in Germany. The exhibition was produced in November 2013, at the same time as the book publication of the same name. The photo-book "Daima" is the third publication of the Witnessed Series.

The opening of the exhibition is on Saturday March 11th from 1.30pm and it is being shown alongside the ISD exhibition "Homestory Deutschland" in the context of the Internationale Wochen gegen Rassismus 2017.

Venue: vhs Wiesbaden, Alcide-De-Gasperi-Straße 5, 65197 (Haus B, Erdgeschoss)

Eintritt frei!

Organisers: vhs Wiesbaden and Spiegelbild 

Opening of the "Daima" Exhibition in Wiesbaden - Thursday, November 12th, 7pm.

The exhibition "Daima. Images of Women of Colour in Germany" by the late Nzitu Mawakha (1973-2014) will finally be showing again, this time in Wiesbaden from Thursday, November 12th until Sunday, December 13th 2015.

"Daima" is a collection of black and white images of Black women from or living in Germany. The exhibition was produced in November 2013, at the same time as the book publication of the same name. The photo-book "Daima" is the third publication of the Witnessed Series.

This exhibition showing in Wiesbaden is part of a programme of events taking place to celebrate 30 years of the Initiative Black People in Germany (Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland), a non-profit organisation which was founded in Wiesbaden in 1985.

On Thursday, November 12th the exhibition will be opened by Sharon Dodua Otoo, Editor of the Witnessed Series, and Christelle Nkwendja-Ngnoubamdjum, one of the protagonists in Daima.

Exhibition opening times: Wednesday from 3pm, Thursdays and Friday from 5pm, Saturdays from 3pm and Sundays from 1pm.

Venue: Deutsches Filmhaus, Wiesbaden, Murnaustr. 6, 65189 Wiesbaden

Organisers: „WIR in Wiesbaden“, Hessische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (ISD Bund), Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung

Nzitu Mawakha 1973-2014

Daima Exhibition, August-Bebel-Institut, Berlin-Wedding
Photo ©2014 Ralf Steinberger

Nzitu Mawakha was, for many reasons, a remarkable woman and I will forever be grateful, that I am one of those, fortunate enough to be able to have called her my friend.

At one point during the misery of Winter 2012, Nzitu and I huggled together on her sofa and dreamed up a plan to work on the third edition of Witnessed together. It was quite literally a dream. Neither of us realised at the time how many people's hearts this project would come to touch. We didn't even know that it would really come to exist. Nzitu loved photography. It was clear that this would be a book of her photographs. Beyond that, we simply did not know.

Now, nearly two years later, Daima is easily the best selling publication of the Witnessed Series. The exhibition of same name is being constantly booked to be shown in cities across Germany. The media interest in an English language publication about Black women by Black women caught Nzitu and I both off guard. There has yet to be a book presentation where tears have not been shed. The photograph above was taken at the opening of the exhibition in the August-Bebel-Institut earlier this year. The place was quite literally bursting at the seams.

Nzitu is now gone.

She died suddenly and unexpectedly at the beginning of August 2014.
She leaves behind her partner, her young daughter and many, many grieving family members and friends.
And yet, with Daima, we have a beautiful, lasting legacy of her work, her passion and her vision.

Nzitu Mawakha

Nakupenda sana, Nzitu.
Nakupenda sanaa!

I love you with all the pieces of my broken heart....daima!

Sharon Otoo
Series Editor, Witnessed

Daima. Images of Women of Colour in Germany

Nzitu Mawakha (2013)

Daima goes Dresden!

The exhibition "Daima. Images of Women of Colour in Germany" will be shown in Dresden from next week Tuesday, 6th May in IG Metall as part of a series of events to raise awareness about racism in Germany.

As part of the exhibition opening Nzitu Mawakha, photographer, and Pasquale Virginie Rotter, Empowerment Trainer and Grinberg Practitioner will give presentations.

Copies of the book of the same name, the third publication in the Witnessed series, will be on sale.

All welcome!

Tuesday, 6th May 18:00
"Daima bedeutet "für immer" in Kiswahili
IG Metall Dresden - Entrance Hall
Schützenplatz 14