The Year of Return / Das Jahr der Rückkehr

7:00 p.m. | Prägehalle | Scenic reading

THE YEAR OF RETURN | THE YEAR OF RETURN

"The Year of Return" is a modern ghost story and a memorial against forgetting - Moses Leo brings the story to the stage!

In 2019, Adwapa travels back to her home country of Ghana, as the country commemorates the abduction of the first enslaved Africans to the USA with the "Year of Return". But she is not the only one to return to Ghana - Adwapa encounters the ghosts of the past in unexpected ways.

Three women are at the center of Ivana Akotowaa Ofori's novella. At the opening of the African Book Festival 2025, they will be played by Bea Masala, Edith Saldanha and Vanessa Yeboah.