Stefan Rennicke
Stefan Rennicke has been active in international political cooperation for many years and has worked intensively with developing and emerging countries.
His work focussed on cooperation with countries in sub-Saharan Africa. As part of this work, he has implemented numerous projects with NGOs and governments – including in countries such as Liberia, Mali, Uganda, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar and Rwanda. Since 2016, he has been an entrepreneur and founder of the textile company KAYA&KATO. He works as an author and lives in Portugal and Germany.
Esther Ruth Mbabazi is a photojournalist and filmmaker from Kampala, Uganda.
Her work describes the changing conditions on the African continent, focusing on the social, physical and emotional aspects of daily life. Her work has been published in the New York Times, TIME Magazine, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and El Pais. Esther is the founder of The Candid Local initiative, which works with independent creatives on the African continent to tell stories from Africa with a distinct African gaze.
Esther Ruth Mbabazi
Axel Post
Axel Post runs a digital communications agency and prefers to tell stories in film form.
He also likes to talk to people of all kinds. He is driven by a deep aversion to the “image film” genre. In his free time, he experiments with new formats of digital art, designs apps, attends concerts ranging from punk to indie pop and is a fan of Borussia Mönchengladbach. Post lives with his family in the west of Cologne and only knows the African continent from television.