Sudan
Impressions from Khartoum

After a bumpy start, the AFRICOMICS workshop in Khartoum has come to a successful end. The workshop, which was supposed to take place from 24.10 - 28.10.21, unfortunately had to be suspended after the first day due to local turbulences. In the end, the workshop was continued in April as an online workshop. A total of 10 participants took part in the workshop. The workshop was conducted by the Sudanese coordinator Cloud Aster and the German trainer Birgit Weyhe. The particpants showed very high engagement and were able to benfit especially from the indivdual sessions, which were part of the online coaching sessions.

The workshop facilitators

© Yousif Elamin Yousif Elamin Elkhair Elamin is a self-taught graphic designer. He was born in Sudan in 1991. Like most kids, he started with disjointed doodles, later drawing inspiration from various mascots and cartoon series. He developed a variety of artistic styles and skills in comics, storyboards, character design and illustrations. Throughout his career, he has been involved in various publications, from online and print comics to editorial illustrations for various local and international organizations. He loves visual storytelling and hopes to leave his own mark on others.
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© Vera Drebusch Birgit Weyhe was born in Munich in 1969. She spent her childhood in East Africa and studied literature and history in Constance and Hamburg. In 1997 she obtained her Magister Artium. After studying illustration at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, she has worked as a freelance illustrator and comic artist in Hamburg. Her graphic novels have been nominated for several awards in Germany, France and Japan and her comic "Madgermanes" received the Bertholt Leibinger Stiftung Comic Book Award in 2015 and the Max-und-Moritz-Preis as best German-language comic in 2016. From 2017 to 2019, she published a monthly comic series "Lebenslinien" in Berlin's "Tagesspiegel." Weyhe's work has been shown in exhibitions in Germany and abroad and has been published in a wide variety of international magazines and anthologies. On behalf of the Goethe-Institut, she has given workshops in numerous countries and participated in an artist exchange in Sao Paulo and Helsinki. Since 2012, she has taught as a guest lecturer at various German and US-American universities.​​​​​​​
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