Dr. Edda Brandes

Ethnomusicologist, cultural projects in Africa, president of the association BENKADI Culture Space Africa. Lecturer at the research center CNRPAH in Algiers.

Prof. Mohamed Touré

Lector for Bambara (grammar, conversation, literature), Institute for African Studies/University of Cologne. Main research: Mali and the West African empires in german literature. Writer.

Dr. Wilfried Hoffer

TV journalist, consultant, environmental expert, former director DED and GTZ office, Mali; organisation Heinrich-Barth-Symposium, Timbuktu; translator; participation in documentary “Süsses Gift”; founding member Point Sud, Bamako, and Houses of Hope, Wiesloch.

Dr. Meike Meerpohl

Social and cultural anthropologist with research experience in Syria, Jordania, Egypt, Chad and Lybia. Her research interests are nomadism and pastoralism in desert areas, on trans-Sahara routes and trading routes as well as national parks and the management of world heritage sites.