African Object Lessons

About African Object Lessons

What lessons do African objects have for us in the twenty first century? What can we learn from them about Africa’s long relationship with Europe? What can they teach us about being and becoming human?This podcast expands the conversation around objects from Africa – in, about and beyond the museum.

Publisher

Benjamina Efua Dadzie & Chris Wingfield

Category

arts · education · history · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Jul 2021

Latest episode

8 Dec 2021

Latest episodes

5 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Dec 2021

   Episode 5 - Alafuro Sikoki-Coleman on exhibition design

   Alafuro (https://www.studiosikoki.com/about) is an industrial designer and artist who worked on the [Re:]Entanglements exhibition. We talk about her engagement with museums, as well as her conception of objects as language in solid form.

2. 

   27 Sept 2021

   Episode 4: George Emeka Agbo on researching near home

   George speaks to us about his experiences with the Thomas collection in Cambridge, his positionally as an African researcher, as well as the different attitudes to collections he encountered in the UK and Nigeria.

3. 

   9 Aug 2021

   Episode 3: Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo on Igbo Audio Recordings

   Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo tells us about her engagement with Igbo audio recordings as part of her involvement with the [Re:]Entanglements (https://re-entanglements.net/) project.

4. 

   10 Jul 2021

   Episode 2: Paul Basu on [Re:]Entanglements

   Paul Basu tells us about the background to the [Re:]Enanglements: Colonial Collections in Decolonial Times and his work with the collections assembled by Northcote Thomas that has fed into recently opened Cambridge exhibition (https://maa.cam.ac.uk/events/re-entanglements-colonial-collections-decolonial-times-22-june-2021-17-april-2022).

5. 

   3 Jul 2021

   Episode 1: Introducing African Object Lessons

   Podcast hosts - Benjamina Efua Dadzie and Chris Wingfield - introduce themselves. The episode sets out ambitions for the podcast as a digital space where the conversation around objects from Africa can be expanded - in, about and beyond the museum.

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