Katharina Wilhelm Otieno

Jul 31, 2023 | en.qantara.de | Katharina Wilhelm Otieno

In 2011, the year of the Arab Spring, Egyptian ethnomusicologist Mina Girgis decided to launch a music project. It was not inspired by the protests around Cairo's Tahrir Square but by one of the few constants in Egyptian life: the Nile. However, the Nile is not just Egyptian. Girgis quickly realised that such a project – like Africa's longest river – would have to flow across national boundaries.

Jan 29, 2023 | dandc.eu | Raphael Mweninguwe |Katharina Wilhelm Otieno |Pamela Lizette Cruz

Moreover, many people view children with disabilities as a curse upon parents, imposed by a supernatural power to punish them for a wrong. Strange traditional mindsets amidst rampant poverty are to blame for this bizarre behaviour. This is especially unfair as caring for people with disabilities is being left almost only to women. The males mostly escape from their childcare responsibilities. This also happened to 30-year-old Luwiza Davidson, a mother of a 7-year-old disabled girl.