In this episode, Dr Valence Silayo, Lecturer of Archeology and Heritage Studies at the University of Dar es Salaam, talks about his research on the entangled history of Tanzania and Germany. He is presently a guest scholar at the Linden-Museum Stuttgart where he has co-curated the exhibition "Celebrating Womanhood" on cultural belongings of the Chagga community in the Kilimanjaro region held by the museum. Among many collaborative projects with Germany, he is involved in the restitution of knowledge to Tanzania with the Leipzig Missionary Society.
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Episode 10 (English) with Bernard Laulian Ntahondi
The guest of this episode is Bernard Laulian Ntahondi, an artist and expert of heritage studies in Tanzania. His work, to a considerable extent, focuses on the legacies of German colonialism in his country. He talks about memories practices in many parts of Tanzania, the role of the national Restitution Committee and collaborative efforts to address the entangled history between Germany and Tanzania.
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Episode 09 (English) with Imani Nsamila
In this episode, Imani Nsamila, an independent photographer and visual artist from Tanzania, talks about remembering German colonial rule in his country. He calls on civil societies in Tanzania and Germany to deepen collaboration on the entangled past, thus creating possibilities for a new relationship between the two countries. He particularly commends the twinning arrangement between Hamburg and Dar es Salaam for fostering intense people-to-people contacts.
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Episode 08 (English) with Dyoniz Kindata
In this episode, Tanzanian scholar Dyoniz Kindata talks about his ongoing doctoral dissertation "Poetic and Photographic Practices in the Kiongozi German East African Colonial Newspaper 1885 to 1918". His research addresses questions such as: What was the linguistic and cultural status of Swahili before and during German colonization? How did Kiongozi and similar colonial publications function within the broader intellectual sphere of the time? How might we think about these print practices as early forms of community-making or even decolonial strategies, despite their origin within colonial frameworks?
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Episode 07 (English) with Dr Salomé Soloum
In this episode, art historian Dr Salomé Soloum talks about her research on the history of clothing, sexuality and mores in pre-colonial Africa. Her academic interest also extends to the restitution of African heritage, particularly regarding the Republic of Benin. Dr Soloum is a member of the Académie des Traces. Presently, she is a guest scholar at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin supported by a grant from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The focus of her present work is a fabric from the Far North of Cameroon, looted by a German colonial officer in 1908 and presently held by Grassi Ethnological Museum in Leipzig.
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