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Instead, I write about still open questions and I provide context. An article on the complicated situation. @TableBriefings (in German, €). Thanks to everyone who answered questions. 2/

https://table.media/africa/analyse/human-remains-irritationen-nach-uebergabezeremonie-der-charite/

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While attending that repatriation ceremony at Charité on January 16, I thought I‘d write about the truly moving ceremony, cite from those touching speeches, and that I’d tell more about the 12 Hehe ancestors whose remains were (supposed to be) repatriated. 1/

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My latest (in German) at @riffreporter :

Decolonial initiatives lose project room and exhibition space in Berlin’s Wilhelmstraße 92, which is about where in 1884/85 the Berlin Africa Conference took place. Now the decolonial initiatives can no longer rent that room. The lease will not be renewed.

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https://www.riffreporter.de/de/gesellschaft/kein-raum-dekoloniale-erinnerungskultur-wilhelmstrasse-berlin-afrika-konferenz

About the opening of “Histories of Tanzania” at Humboldt Forum. My reporting (in German) @riffreporter . With pictures by Tanzanian photographer Imani Nsamila. Thanks @SporkPeter for editing.

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https://www.riffreporter.de/de/international/tansania-humboldt-forum-kolonialgeschichte-restitution-cultural-belongings

In the same context, this afternoon Amani Abeid, an artist who is part of “Histories of Tanzania” told me: “The museums should extend the capacities of spreading the knowledge about histories - not only in Tanzania but throughout the world. The new generation, they have their spaces.”

Photo Credit: me

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In a museum hall. Wooden entanglements in the background. A man who is talking in front.

With Nicholas Calvin Mwakatobe, an artist is part of both VINYAGO and “Histories of Tanzania”. Also, the documentary film about VINYAGO was shown as part of this weekend’s accompanying program.

Here, a famous scene about Tanzania’s young generation.

Photo Credit: me
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A screen showing a scene with people who wear masks

While thinking about omissions, I’ve been thinking of Mnyaka Sururu Mboro. A key diaspora person in decolonizing TZ-GER colonial legacy. And someone whose voice was to be heard in VINYAGO.

Photo collage: drawing by Marco Tibasima, photo by me.

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A photo collage: An older man drawn in front of an information board which reads: “Remembering, reconciling, bearing united responsibility for our future

Big respect to the community representatives who have come to Humboldt Forum - not just any space. And the two panels with them yesterday - wow.

And I feel grateful for each conversation. Here, with Chief Adam Mkwawa.

Photo Credit: Imani Nsamila

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A conversation between a woman in a business suit and a man in white traditional clothes

While listening to the panels at Humboldt Forum this weekend, I’ve also been reminded of the talks after the VINYAGO performances at Humboldt Forum in 2022.

What is the state of Tanzanian-German colonial legacy?

Drawing: Marco Tibasima for our #gjheritagewalks #pamojart

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A drawing. A round circle discussion. In the background there are masks.

These days, with “Histories of Tanzania” now open at Humboldt Forum, I’ve been thinking a lot of when two years back, VINYAGO was there, co-curated by Isack Abeneko, Nicholas Calvin Mwakatobe and Gita Herrmann.

Drawing: Marco Tibasima for our #gjheritagewalks #pamojart

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A drawing. A performance. An audience watching dancers who wear masks. In the background visuals of Humboldt Forum.

As I’m on my my way to #DinoInTheRoom - a civil society dialogue @BoellStiftung on German colonial history in Tanzania - I’m thinking of @MarcoTibasima and my 2020 dinosaur drawing, part of #gjheritagewalks .

A white woman with a face mask in a hall looking up at the mounted skeleton of a tall dinosaur. A thinking bubble, there: the woman and a Black man sitting, in the background the skeleton surrounded by palms, a big tree, an ancient building.

Team 🙏🤗. Pamoja Tunajifunza. Pamoja Tunaweza. Together we are learning. Together we can. Thank you, @MariamGichan

Photo Credit: 🙏 Dir. Vipper, Multi Motions Studio, Mwanza

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Two women, standing next to each other and smiling for a photo op. One woman in a long dress with flower print and wearing a black head scarf. One woman wearing black trousers and a blazer.

Again at Museum of Natural History in Berlin @mfnberlin , looking at the Tendaguru dinosaurs. - Drawing from 2020 when Tanzanian artist @marcotibasima and I started our ongoing graphic journalism project #gjheritagewalks on colonial legacy of Tanzania and Germany.

A woman with a face mask in a hall looking up at the mounted skeleton of a tall dinosaur. A thinking bubble, there: the woman and a man sitting, in the background the skeleton surrounded by palms, a big tree, an ancient building.

Berlin: The renaming of Petersallee into Maji-Maji-Allee to come. Contestation dismissed. (1/2)

(Drawing from 2020 when Tanzanian artist @MarcoTibasima & I did our #gjheritagewalks remotely: me walking, Marco drawing.
In 2022 the renaming into Manga-Bell-Platz was completed)

A woman standing at a crossing in front of street signs with names: “Nachtigalplatz” and “Petersallee”. In her hand a phone and a map app open. There, different street names: “Manga-Bell-Platz” and “Maji-Maji-Allee”. In the background an ambulance.

Bye, Bye, Baboon Public Camp Site, Serengeti. @mariyamgichan @PochaRamadhan #gjheritagewalks

Tents on grass at a camp site, trees in the background.

(No picture). And sometimes it’s the pictures we do not take which tell a story - and more than one story. And the danger of the single story is always there. We see, we listen, we learn, we fact-check.

At NCA.

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Good morning (4) from Ngorongoro

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Photo Credit: @kibasafariguide