Pernille Bærendtsen3. dec. 20191 minColonialism reversedLast year (2018) South Africa’s Advertising Regulatory Board banned "a tongue-in-cheek commercial that imagines Africans colonizing...
Pernille Bærendtsen10. nov. 20195 minWho talks about refugees in Tanzania, and what do they say?In late 2018, Tanzania hosted 330,755 refugees and asylum-seekers divided between Burundi (245,9641), The Democratic Republic of the...
Pernille Bærendtsen26. apr. 20191 minUpdate: Everyday Poetics: Instagramming Life in East Africa in BelgradeHappy & proud how our exhibition 'Everyday Poetics: Instagramming East Africa' came together and has been covered so far since we...
Pernille12. apr. 20191 minPHOTO EXHIBITION: EVERYDAY POETICS - INSTAGRAMMING EAST AFRICA''Never in the history of Africa has there been a period where the most photographed and shared photos are not about wars, poverty,...
Pernille Bærendtsen30. jan. 20191 minOwl in Tanzanian Parliament - bad omen for freedom of speech and assembly.On 29 January, when the Tanzanian Parliament (Bunge) was assembled in Dodoma, an owl flew in and watched the assembly. The owl is seen in...
Pernille21. jan. 20191 minFILM: Wakamba ForeverColonianism revisited: ..''a hilarious take on Masaku and McMillan’s first encounter set in the 21st century. From a dramatic re-telling...
Pernille Bærendtsen20. jan. 20191 minChuchu: ''We are not the audience. We are the story''.Two important tweet threads (see below) which take point of departure in the New York Times coverage of the Riverside terror attack on 15...
Pernille9. nov. 20181 minField Work & moreI did my master thesis field work in Kigoma, and occasionally I'd use to hang out behind a little garage, right in between two of the...