There are strange rituals in Germany: When a house is inaugurated, a red ribbon is stretched, only to be cut with giant scissors. In the Berlin House of World Cultures (HKW), which reopened on Friday under the new director Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, things were done differently. The Haitian voodoo priest Jean-Daniel Lafontant called Papa Legba, the door opener and mediator between earthly and spiritual spheres, drew a pattern on the asphalt for him and offered him a bottle of Havana Club.
Reopening of the Berlin House of World Cultures – Culture
