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African History
Africa's history and historiography have been distorted by the colonial powers in the course of their quest for domination of the African continent. Follows the colossal task of retracing, rebuilding and recreating the African past, a task which has been taken up especially with independence. In this context, UNESCO has published the path-breaking "General History of Africa" which is at the basis of our approach in this section.
Kwame Opoku: Declaration on the Importance and Value of the Universal Museum (DIVUM): Singular Failure of an Arrogant Imperialist Project
The Declaration on the Importance and Value of the Universal Museum (DIVUM) of 2002 in now 10 years old. The DIVUM, writes Kwame Opoku, is a very remarkable document that differs essentially from other declarations and documents that include in their title... |+| read article
Bruno Jaffré: "Drei Jahre Hoffnung" - zum 25. Todestag von Thomas Sankara
Als Präsident von Burkina Faso begann Thomas Sankara einen Idealstaat zu verwirklichen. Seine Ermordung vor 25 Jahren setzte den Utopien ein Ende. Von Bruno Jaffré. Dieser Artikel erscheint in einer leicht gekürzten Fassung in der September-Ausgabe des... |+| read article
Kwame Opoku: Blood Antiquities in Respectable Havens: Looted Benin Artefacts donated to American Museum
In this article Kwame Opoku takes position on the donation by Robert Owen Lehman, great-grandson of founder of Lehman Brothers of 34 looted artefats to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The people of Benin have tried for years to have their precious works of... |+| read article
Editorial: Germany’s genocide in Namibia – Unbearable silence, or How not to deal with your colonial past
On 22 March 2012, the German parliament will debate a |+| motion to acknowledge its brutal 1904-08 genocide of the Nama and Herero peoples. Germany’s... |+| read article
Reinhart Kössler/Henning Melber: The genocide in Namibia (1904-08) and its consequences: Toward a culture of memory for a memory culture today – a German perspective
The repatriation of human remains more than a century after they were taken to Germany from Namibia has evoked painful memories of colonial wars in which primary African resistance was crushed, and genocide perpetrated (1904–08) in what was then the colony of... |+| read article
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