How can artists in the Global South contribute to the process of retracing the path towards a fading and sometimes seemingly forgotten past, thereby articulating and redefining the region’s cultural, political, social and economic vision?
“Even without additional barriers, digitisation remains theoretical for many people: three-quarters of people in Southern Africa have no internet connection.”
It was considered the pearl of science during German colonial rule: the Amani Biological-Agricultural Research Centre in Tanzania. Joint German-Tanzanian exhibitions are currently exploring the flagship-project from an ethnological and artistic point of view.
Belgium, Spain, France and Portugal link their previously isolated discourses on the handling of colonial objects and deal with the subject from an artistic point of view.
International experts are jointly developing Africa's museums of the future: the aim is a critical redefinition of current forms of exhibition and presentations, which have been characterized by colonial thinking.
Berlin is home to one of the world's most important collections of Angolan art, compiled during the colonial period. In 2018 Angola and Germany started a museum cooperation.
The Goethe-Institut is preparing young Cameroonian historians and other experts for research on the files of the German colonial administration housed in the National Archives in Yaoundé.
The series of events critically questions German-African relations. The focus is on the discourse on the so-called developing countries as a continuation of Eurocentric colonial thinking on superiority.
