Archives de News

Sur cette page, vous trouverez toutes les News (articles) publiés sur le site d'AfricAvenir, classifés par catégories. Utilisez la fonction "Rechercher" en haut de la page pour retrouver des articles en introduisant des mots clés.

Kwame Opoku: What Game was James Cuno Playing in Davos?

Cultural commentator Kwame Opoku is seeing red after reading Lee Rosenbaum’s comments on James Cuno’s participation in the World Eonomic Forum, Davos, as well as Cuno’s report of his own performance at the Swiss holiday... |+| lire l'article

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... |+| lire l'article

Kwame Opoku: Looted Nigerian Terracotta Returned by US Immigration are not Homeless or Orphans

On reading reports that the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM)) has declared that the Nigerian terracotta seized by United States Immigration (Homeland Security Investigations, HSI) and returned to Nigeria are not from the National Museum at... |+| lire l'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... |+| lire l'article

Kwame Opoku: Do They Know Queen-Mother Idia of Benin?

A recent visit to the British Museum confirmed what we have observed in previous years: many Western visitors to the museum have no specific interest in any particular Benin object, even if they visit the Sainsbury Gallery and look at the Benin Bronzes. They... |+| lire l'article

Kwame Opoku: Damage to Nok Scupture in Private Western Collection. Will Other African Artefacts End in this Way?

It has been reported in the New York Daily News that the widow of the French artist Arman, is suing in Manhattan Supreme Court for damage to a Nok sculpture caused during a photo shooting session for an art magazine. The sculpture fell and broke into pieces... |+| lire l'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... |+| lire l'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... |+| lire l'article

Peter H. Katjavivi: The significance of the repatriation of Namibian human skulls

Former Namibian Ambassador to Germany, Prof. Peter H. Katjavivi, who was instrumental in getting the repatriation process with Charité started, calls upon both Namibians and Germans to confront the past honestly as part of the process of recovering human... |+| lire l'article

Kwame Opoku: Return of stolen skulls by Germany to Namibia: Closure of a horrible chapter?

Refuting in detail the arguments proffered by Germany on the questions of apology and compensation for the genocide of the Herero and the Nama, Dr Kwame Opoku notes that the Namibia-Germany case is being keenly observed by other African peoples and states... |+| lire l'article

Casper W. Erichsen: Skullduggery and necrophilia in colonial Namibia

Names, dates, statistics, records, photographs – Namibia-based historian, Casper W. Erichsen, explains some of the factual evidence of the multiple atrocities that were part of the genocide in Namibia. At the end of the 19th century the rediscovery of... |+| lire l'article

Horst Kleinschmidt: The absence of reconciliation

Namibian-born Horst Kleinschmidt provides challenging observations and personal family history linked to the colonial era. Urging both Germany and German-speaking Namibians to confront their past honestly, he offers examples of apologies made in similar... |+| lire l'article

Alfredo Tjiurimo Hengari: The return of the Herero and Nama skulls: Coming to terms with a difficult history

In his analysis of the failure over more than two decades to deal with the genocide, Alfredo Tjiurimo Hengari looks at the changing attitudes of Namibia’s SWAPO-led government and the role of the Namibian media as well as Germany’s evasive political... |+| lire l'article

<< Première < Précédente Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Suivante > Dernière >>

> Nouvelle publication

> Archives de News

Sélectionnez une catégorie :