Kunst & Kultur

Kunst und Kultur waren ohne Zweifel die Basis für das Überleben Afrikas und der Afrikaner/innen im Angesicht der Aggression und Unterdrückung von Sklavenhaltern und Kolonisatoren. Wie sehen zeitgenössische Kunstperspektiven aus Afrika heute aus? Welches sind die aktuellen Diskurse? Und wie definieren Künstler/innen sich und ihre Werke in der globalisierten Welt?

Kwame Opoku: Reflections on the Cairo Conference on Restitution: Encouraging Beginning

Article by Kwame Opoku writing about the Conference on International Cooperation for the Protection and Repatriation of Cultural Heritage, which was held 7-8 April 2010, Cairo, Egypt and which ended with demands for the return of certain cultural artefacts... |+| zum Artikel

Joy Onyejiako: The ‘Kingdom of Ife’: African art at the British Museum

An exhibition of art from the Nigerian Kingdom of Ife at the British Museum isn’t only exquisitely beautiful, it is ‘something of absolute historical importance’, writes Joy Onyejiako. But given the low-key public response to the show, how much will it... |+| zum Artikel

Kwame Opoku: Ile-Ife Triumphs in the British Museum, London. Who said Nigerians were incapable of looking after their cultural artefacts?

Aricle by Kwame Opoku. It seems every generation of Westerners has to “discover” the extraordinary beauty and sophistication of African culture even though Europe and Africa have been in contact, at the latest, since 15th century when the Portuguese sailed... |+| zum Artikel

Kwame Opoku: A History of the World with 100 Looted Objects of Others: Global Intoxication?

Article by Kwame Opoku on the occasion of the the British Museum and the BBC announcement of a programme with the title: “A History of the World in 100 Objects”. A pretence, writes Kwame Opoku, to serving the whole world, a title which indicates a wider... |+| zum Artikel

Kwame Opoku: France returns looted artefacts to Nigeria: Beginning of a long process or an isolated act?

According to a report in the Nigerian Compass reproduced below, the French Government has returned to the Nigerian Government two artefacts looted during the colonial days. This is good news. We have in various articles demonstrated the illegality, the... |+| zum Artikel

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