Her new exhibition is a visceral and complex display of knowing oneself and one’s lineage in the absence of, and despite, history and memory. 

This project initiated by the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg aimed for participants from different African countries and Germany to face their common history. Here is what three participants experienced on their journey.

The appointed curator of the Berlin Biennale 2018, Gabi Ngcobo, speaks about postcolonialism and the importance of revisiting history.

Three years until the opening of Berlin’s Humboldt Forum: at a Goethe-Institut congress in Johannesburg, Hermann Parzinger, Neil McGregor and others discussed how it will not just be a museum, but can be a place where we can come to terms with the history of oppression in Africa.

Germany’s colonial past entails a considerable burden of responsibility that continues to this day. This is evident in debates about ethnological collections, the renaming of streets – and in the question of how to deal with guilt.