16 06 2016 Academy Cologne: Fußball Postkolonial from meeting controls in teams meeting Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 50 min 42 sec
✓ Published: 23-Jun-2016

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The place is Yaoundé, Cameroun, the year 2014, and the German and French national teams are meeting for a match. But wait: why are all the players black? Is this a replay of the war between Germany and France a century before, fought not only in Europe, but also in Cameroun, with local soldiers standing in for their colonial masters? This provocative reenactment (called Nebensaison) by Berlin-based artist Philip Kojo Metz raises many complex questions. Is football the continuation of politics b