Talking Back
Reading: Tuğba Tekkal »Tor zur Freiheit« / Concert: Mori Dioubaté & Mamadou Sanou
Past dates
8/11/23
6:30 PM
8/11/23
8:30 PM
Reading
Tuğba Tekkal is a footballer and human rights activist. She is particularly committed to helping refugee girls and women and founded the human rights organisation HÁWAR.help together with her sister Düzen Tekkal. In her book "Tor zur Freiheit" (Suhrkamp / Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag, 2023), she combines her childhood in a Kurdish-Yazidi extended family, her love of sport, her career as a professional footballer and her work as a human rights activist into an inspiring story about exclusion and self-empowerment.
Concert
Mori Dioubaté is a musician from Guinea Conakry who started his career as a soloist in the State Ballet of Ivory Coast. Mamadou Sanou is a virtuoso master drummer
and griot from a respected family of musicians in Burkina Faso who presents a broad spectrum of West African music with balafon, ngoni and drums.