20-03-14
La fondation publique Preußischer Kulturbesitz détient des milliers de restes humains du monde entier. Ceux-ci furent ramenés...
06-01-14
Interview von Prince Kum'a Ndumbe III. auf AfrotakTV Cybernomads. Im Rahmen der Debatten um den Wideraufbau des Stadtschlosses und der Errichtung des...
01-11-13
AfricAvenir vous invite le samedi 16 novembre 2013 à 19 heures à un forum de discussion avec Belinda Kazeem (théoricienne de la culture et...
03-09-13
Cultural commentator Kwame Opoku discusses in this text the partly estonishing answers given by the Berlin Senat to parliamentary question (Kleine...
23-08-13
It is no accident, writes Kwame Opoku, that the famous hip-mask of Queen-Mother Idia has become the most visible and popular image in African art; it has...
05-02-13
Cultural commentator Kwame Opoku is seeing red after reading Lee Rosenbaum’s comments on James Cuno’s participation in the World Eonomic...
25-01-13
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...
27-08-12
On reading reports that the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM)) has declared that the Nigerian terracotta seized by United States Immigration...
21-07-12
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...
31-05-12
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...
04-05-12
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...
19-03-12
On 22 March 2012, the German parliament will debate a |+|...
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...
Former Namibian Ambassador to Germany, Prof. Peter H. Katjavivi, who was instrumental in getting the repatriation process with Charité started, calls upon both...
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...
Names, dates, statistics, records, photographs – Namibia-based historian, Casper W. Erichsen, explains some of the factual evidence of the multiple atrocities...
Namibian-born Horst Kleinschmidt provides challenging observations and personal family history linked to the colonial era. Urging both Germany and...
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...
In the critical reading of their exhibition ‘Faces of the African Renaisance’, Adetoun Küppers-Adebisi and Michael Küppers-Adebisi deconstruct German colonial...
Largely unnoticed by most Namibians, the local German-language daily Allgemeine Zeitung provides a forum for colonial apologetics. Reinhart Kössler and Henning...
Statement by Chief Alfons Kaihepovazandu Maharero, Chairman of the Ovaherero/ Ovambanderu Council for the Dialogue on the 1904 Genocide (OCD-1904), on the...
The Germans’ inhuman treatment of the Namibian delegation is only the most recent in a long history of injustice and disrespect towards African peoples. It is...
To mark the occasion of the restitution by the Berlin Charité Hospital of the first 20 mortal remains of Namibian victims of the German genocide, the German...
22-02-12
In this article, Kwame Opoku reviews the latest book by James Cuno "Museums Matter - In praise of the Encyclopedic Museum". Cuno, he writes,...