African Object Lessons: Recent Episodes
Benjamina Efua Dadzie & Chris Wingfield
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.
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.
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.
Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo tells us about her engagement with Igbo audio recordings as part of her involvement with the [Re:]Entanglements project.
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.
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.