99 Questions Podcast with Feven Kaleta

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	Part of: 99 Questions
	Colonialism and Coloniality

Over the course of a year, the discourse series 99 Questions will be accompanied by the “99 Questions Podcast” featuring dialogues on museums and their multiple connections to colonialism. The monthly episodes welcome different guests such as artists, activists, and academics, to share their experiences, knowledge, and perspectives on past and future museum practices in postcolonial societies.

Episode 1

with Sharon Macdonald and El Hadji Malick Ndiaye

13 May 2021 In the first episode, our host Feven Keleta talks with anthropologist Sharon Macdonald about the relationship between museums and national identity, and the complex nature of big museum projects like the Humboldt Forum. We are also joined by art historian and curator El Hadji Malick Ndiaye who argues for the re-socialization of African objects and how this is intertwined with cultural heritage, history, and human rights.

Cultural Identity and Diaspora (1996) by Stuart Hall [PDF]
Will Germany Really Restitute Looted Benin Artefacts? (2021) by Dr. Kwame Opoku

Episode 2

with Njoki Ngumi and Jim Chuchu

In our second episode, we are joined by Njoki Ngumi and Jim Chuchu from the Nairobi-based collective The Nest. We talk about the politics of object restitution and provenance research as a means of distraction.The conversation also looks critically at the attempts of European museums to distract and legitimize, as well as at how the restitution of African objects can queer our past and present.

This is The Nest

Toni Morrison Quote Transcript

Recorded Lecture
(Note: At the time of the podcast recording, we did not have access to the quoted Toni Morrisson’s talk. But you can find the original recorded lecture here and the quote at minute 36.)

Episode 3A

In this episode, we’re joined by Sima Luipert, chairperson of the Nama Traditional Leaders Association and Nandiuasora Mazeingo, chairperson of the Ovaherero Genocide Foundation. Sima and Nandi talk about the ramifications of the first genocide of the 20th century by critically examining its planning and implementation.

This is the first part of our double episode that deals with Germany’s war atrocities and colonial crimes that were leading up to the genocide against the Nama and Ovaherero people in Namibia between 1904 and 1908.

For additional information, please visit the website of the Ovaherero Genocide Foundation

(OGF)https://ogfnamibia.org/ and https://www.namatraditionalleadersassociation.org/

You can also follow the OGF on Twitter: @OGF_Namibia.

Episode 3B

This is the second part of our double episode that deals with Germany’s war atrocities and colonial crimes that were leading up to the genocide against the Nama and Ovaherero people in Namibia between 1904 and 1908. In this episode, we joined by writer and researcher Dr. Zoé Samudzi and curator and artist Kathleen Bomani, who draw attention the manifestations of German settler colonialism in and outside of Namibia and East Africa.

Episode 4

with Naazima Kamardeen

What happens to the right to culture when the objects of its manifestations are forcibly dislocated? Can the return of objects restore this human right? And what does cultural diplomacy have to do with restitution? In this interview with law professor Naazima Kamardeen from the University of Colombo we learn about colonial collections and restitution processes through the lens of law and justice. Naazima Kamardeen also talks about the concept of guardianship and what the loss of the Buddhist statue of Tara means for Sri Lanka.