In Episode 05 of the podcast Decolonial Memories, Dr Priscillia Manjoh talks about her work as author, academic and community worker in Cameroon and Germany. Coming from the English-speaking minority of Cameroon, she is particularly interested in overcoming divisions within her country by exploring the potential meaning of German colonial rule for national unity. Dr Manjoh sees the need of closer collaboration with German civil society in addressing the entangled colonial history. Her organisation supports grassroots programmes in Cameroon.
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Episode 04 (English) with Dr Laibor Kalanga Moko
In this episode, Dr Laibor Kalanga Moko from Tanzania talks about his work as scholar with Freie Universität Berlin in the Collaborative Research Area "Affective Societies", Sub-Project "Contested Property". He was recently awarded with the Ernst Reuter Prize for his doctoral dissertation "Sensing the Colonial Order of Things: Maasai Materialities and Ethnographic Museums" (Supervision: PD Dr Paola Ivanov, Prof. Dr Kai Kresse). Findings from this research are summarized in the article (open access) "The (In)Alienability of Objects and Colonial Acquisition: The Case of Maasai Ethnographic Collections at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin". His present work focuses on the topic "Contested Property, Affective Dissonance and Relational Ethics in Museum Collaborations".
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Episode 03 (English) with Maike Schimanowski
In this episode, Maike Schimanowski talks about her insights and experiences as co-curator of the exhibition "Histories of Tanzania" at the Humboldt Forum Berlin. She informs about challenges & accomplishments of the collaborative project by National Museum of Tanzania, Ethnological Museum Berlin and Stiftung Humboldt Forum. A noteworthy aspect is how the joint curatorial team reached out to communities in Tanzania to ask for their consent before presenting colonial loot held by the Ethnological Museum Berlin. Presently, it is unclear how the agreed-upon second presentation of the exhibition in Tanzania could be implemented.
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Episode 02 (English) with Dr Richard Tsogang Fossi
In this episode, Dr Richard Tsogang Fossi talks about the challenges and progress in documenting cultural belongings from Cameroon, translocated to Germany during colonial rule. He is member of the research team around Prof. B. Savoy (TU Berlin) and Prof A. Gouaffo (Université de Dschang) which produced the highly acclaimed Atlas of Absence.
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Episode 01 (English) with Flaubert Djateng
In this first episode of the podcast Decolonial Memories, Flaubert Djateng, coordinator of the civil society organisation Zenü Network in Cameroon, talks about his work on the legacies of German colonialism in his country. Working together, academia, civil society and traditional rulers are exploring the historical translocation of ancestral remains and cultural belongings to Germany and searching for ways to have them returned. At the state level, Cameroon's government has established an Interministerial Committee charged with the repatriation of cultural belongings. Flaubert Djateng is a member of its Sub-Committee on Legal Affairs. He addresses the dynamics of interaction between the state, traditional rulers and civil society on these issues. He also comments on possible ways for German and Cameroonian civil society to cooperate on addressing the entangled past of the two countries.
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