African Object Lessons

Benjamina Efua Dadzie & Chris Wingfield
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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.

Episodes

  1. 12/08/2021

    Episode 5 - Alafuro Sikoki-Coleman on exhibition design

    Alafuro 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.

    38 min

  2. 09/27/2021

    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.

    44 min

  3. 08/09/2021

    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 project.

    31 min

  4. 07/10/2021

    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.

    37 min

  5. 07/03/2021

    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.

    26 min
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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.

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    Benjamina Efua Dadzie & Chris Wingfield
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  • Episodes
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