Festival Women in Exile “No borders, No lagers”, intersectional arts & culture – 2024

This year, the Kine Diop Centre was invited for the second time to take part in the ‘No Borders, No Lagers, Intersectional Arts & Culture’ International Festival, organised by Women in Exile. The festival took place from 23 to 25 August 2024 at Oranienplatz, Berlin (Germany), and we went along with Nit Tekna Logik.

The aim of the festival is to combat racism, sexism and discrimination against refugee women and children, particularly the existence of lagers (refugee camps) which function primarily as prisons, turning refugees into prisoners of the European border regime.

Ouba Gueye, from the Kiné Diop Centre, explained the case of Dalifort (his neighbourhood) as a case study, as it is a neighbourhood that was developed collectively in the early days (during the 1970s and 1980s), when people from the interior of the country arrived at a site that was once a forest, they settled there and began to build a community, governed by themselves; they developed the neighbourhood’s infrastructure and established the first school and health centre, until the neighbourhood became part of the Pikine district. To find out more about Dalifort’s process of self-organisation, you can watch the documentary “Dalifort: Hands and Hope”.

We would like to thank the Women in Exile team for all the work they have done to make this festival happen, for inviting us, and for their commitment to developing this international network of women. Thank you for everything!