After departing from Germany, they settled in Australia and began archiving their visual memories, which were eventually sent to Iwalewahaus. Their professional legacy has since been digitized and shared with the Centre of Black Culture and International Understanding (CBCIU) in Osogbo, Nigeria. Their collection has been researched in the frame of collaborative research projects and individual PhD topics, questioning Ulli and Georgina Beiers legacy and its inherent dominant narratives as well as contributing to a broader understanding of Modernisms. Currently, Iwalewahaus as an institution still feeds from its initial strategies, trying to navigate between different stakeholders and ethical commitment.
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11.10.2024 | by Katharina Greven
Material and bodily relations and interactions are of fundamental importance for framing cannibalism of the technologies of conquest and of ethnographic museums specifically. The museum instead is not seen as an institution but as part of the bigger continuum of conquest and it’s embodiment by the Western powers. The body is not seen as a monad, as a discrete and spatially limited category, but as a source, a force and an opportunity, as a site of otherness within oneself but also as limited by difference.
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27.09.2024 | by Ekaterina Golovko
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Portuguese Revolution and the centenary of the birth of one of the most influential leaders of the African decolonization movement. Transatlantically, Cuba played an important part militarily and politically in ejecting the colonizers, while Brazilian educator Paolo Freire was influenced by Cabral’s education for the people. Their ideas are very relevant today.
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10.09.2024 | by Graham Douglas
It is important that a public work (especially a memorial) does not show just one face, but that it opens up to different readings. It is a plantation in mourning, burned, which reflects the lugubrious and funerary side of the plantation. And it also pays tribute to the resistance of the enslaved by the gesture of burning the plantation and boycotting the regime of oppression. The plantation is where the process of dehumanization occurs.
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19.06.2024 | by Marta Lança
Toy Boy has followed the various stages of the country’s post-independence and initiated his artistic practice after the civil war. His work is an expression of life in Luanda, intrinsically linked to the suffering and creativity one feels in the streets. In tune with the city’s artistic movements and circles (such as Elinga Teatro and Fuckin’ Globo), Toy Boy tells us his story with the sincerity and sensitivity that describe him. Dribbling the difficulties in his path and the need for survival, he appropriates a certain pop art, making collages or ready-mades, installations, and using recycled materials such as rust, but, above all, he gives body and voice to the singularities of urban life. In Luanda 2022.
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12.06.2024 | by Marta Lança
We walked down the Avenue with hundreds of people shouting, «Rabble united will never be forgotten», or would it be «Rabble forgotten always united»?, «our fight is every day, against racism and xenophobia».
Cláudia Simões, another Black woman beaten, her face destroyed in a rear-naked choke, in which the lion was PSP police officer Carlos Canha who attacked her in front of her desperate daughter, watching her mother's despair. Listening to her mother scream: “He wants to pierce my eye.” Listening to the irascible policeman: “Bite, bite, bite,” “these people don’t know the laws” or “you’ll get hit with a bullet.” And the girl begging: “Don’t kill my mother!”
City
12.06.2024 | by Marta Lança
The Syndicate of Angolan Journalists (SJA) marked, on March 28th, another anniversary of an organization that entered the history of the country's democratization in a pioneering position that no one can take away from it, when talking about syndicalism in Angola. But not only that, the SJA will also be called upon to testify for future memory when talking about the achievement of freedom for all, which until then did not exist, with the performance of the state average - the only one that existed - a good mirror of this reality full of omissions and manipulations, where only the booming “voice of the owner” could be heard and little else.
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08.06.2024 | by Reginaldo Silva
It is considered a treasure of Haitian culture, which reflects the society of the Caribbean country. The krik-krak, the art of telling riddles or tales (kont, in Creole) is a living tradition that unites and transcends generations through oral speech.
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31.05.2024 | by Pedro Cardoso
Meanwhile, at the resort, the tourist gets bored with the life of being comfortably laying down, among flabby women taking selfies, strutting families, monotonous food, and swimming pools all the time. The entertainment area only offers the disinterest of bored couples, or a group of bank colleagues getting loudly drunk. The islet has little of the Africa he had dreamed of (except for the impressive landscape, but that resembled some corner of Brazil). The local inhabitants, all expelled for pocket change to build little houses and free up the islet for tourists. A few young people from São Tomé who come and go in little rubber boats to sell handicrafts to tourists and fish to the restaurants. If he manages to extract information about the lives of the “locals,” as he was told, it is perfectly conditioned by the commercial relationship that mediated them.
Mukanda
27.05.2024 | by Marta Lança
French ethnologist Jean-Yves Loude returned to the “black city” for a workshop on the figure of Lisbon in literature (you can consult the program here) and insists on counteracting the manipulation of facts that erases the African contribution to the great achievements of the world.
In Lisbon in the Black City (2003) the narrator discovered a city full of signs of this African presence and showed us this privilege as Lisbon residents.
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16.05.2024 | by Marta Lança
Further deepening tensions that already existed between people who had often been enemies and who were now forced to live as compatriots in territories forced upon them by external forces. The colonizers began to give better treatment to those who were “assimilated” and, even better, those who were lighter and had “fine” features. And so, in a process of mimesis in relation to the concepts that reward the ideology of racism, the ideology of colorism emerges in which, the lighter and with finer features the Black person is the more easily they ascend socially.
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10.05.2024 | by Aoaní d'Alva
Shot of Avenida Marginal: tourists walk along it for leasure, Cape Verdeans working. The accumulation of images creates a parallel view, of a world that interacts, but is mutually unaware of each other. We then begin to discover a reading line of the movie. The two worlds are presented to us in a certain manichaeism, famously assumed by the directors. On one side, the resilience of the islanders and their ability to take advantage of scarce resources. The struggling Cape Verdeans who resist the constraints that harass them, whose difficult lives are mitigated by interpersonal relationships of solidarity and some alienation.
Afroscreen
08.05.2024 | by Marta Lança
In Kwanza-Sul, she noticed the various rhythms and grandiosity of a country that cultivates laughter and a short memory to defend itself from the dramas that dehumanize it: slavery, colonialism, domination, small and large powers, opportunism, and ignorance. How dizzying the scheme of history in everyday life is. The generation to which she belongs worried about recovering the lost cultural memory in these violences and others, also with a vivid and intriguing look of the naivety and militancy of independence. I
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13.04.2024 | by Marta Lança
It’s having for background the growing influence of the Internet/Social Networks in Angola and the extraordinary increase in information available from the most diverse sources, the importance of the role of the journalist among us has also been increasing, as is the case in other geographical contexts.
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04.04.2024 | by Reginaldo Silva
For a long time, we treated art as an illustration, the idea that it was a product of its context. But what if we inverted that, since we live in an image civilization, and think of an image as a production, not a product, it produces values, it produces conceptions. And also, when you criticize internally that whiteness classification, we can go through a lot of different questions: who are the people being portrayed? They are, in general, men.
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28.03.2024 | by Marta Lança
A investigação expõe o uso de um sistema chamado "Habsora" ("O Evangelho"), que utiliza tecnologia de Inteligência Artificial para gerar quatro tipos de alvos: alvo tático, alvo subterrâneo, alvo de energia e casas de família. Os alvos são produzidos de acordo com a probabilidade de que combatentes do Hamas estejam nas instalações. Para cada alvo, é anexado um arquivo que "estipula o número de civis que provavelmente serão mortos num ataque". Esses arquivos fornecem números e baixas calculadas, para que, quando as unidades de inteligência realizam um ataque, o exército saiba exatamente quantos civis provavelmente serão mortos.
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02.03.2024 | by Anaïs Nony
Four hundred years after the institution of slavery set off mechanisms devaluing African aesthetics, many on the continent still have a difficult relationship with African women’s hair. Granted, the natural hair movement has gathered momentum in African countries in the past five years, following earlier trends in the US and Europe. Many more young women today wear natural styles unapologetically just like Ms. Universe 2019. Yet resistance to natural hair, in particular afros and dreadlocks, persists.
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23.02.2024 | by Yarri Kamara
The river remembers the arrival of extractivism. One day many years ago, she feels the wake of huge ships against her current and became uneasy. Over time, she comes to share shivers with felled forests, to balk at the blanched palette of monocrop agriculture, to recoil at the sharp poisonous taste of chemical waste, and to deeply mourn the disappearance of her people: people sold into slavery, killed by disease, worked to death in mines, and severed from her nurturing flows by the breaking of their cultures. Oh, what she has seen. Oh, what she has endured.
Mukanda
24.12.2023 | by Imani Jacqueline Brown
Lee-Ann Olwage, who admits she struggles with her own mental health issues, also has family members who have suffered or are suffering from Alzheimer's. For this reason, she states that, with her work, she aims to create a space in which the people she photographs can play an active role in creating the images and that, above all, makes them feel like the true “heroines” of their own stories.
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13.12.2023 | by Mariana Moniz
The undersigned express our solidarity with the Kurdish movement made up of children, young people, women, diverse identities and the Kurdish people in struggle for their rights to autonomy and self-determination. And through our personal and collective voice we want to let the world know what is happening in Kurdish territory right now.
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08.10.2023 | by várias
