Historian of religions, using archival and ethnographic methods. A decade in Namibia on ritual, memory, and the dead who orient the living. I write Where Sacred Fires Burn; subscriptions support the Etanga Development Foundation. ajbeall.substack.com
Tony Beall · Where Sacred Fires Burn
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We're excited to announce the first installment of our series History in Africa Author Interviews! Enjoy this conversation on Benin City, archives, & archeological approaches between HiA author Tomos Evans and ERB member Jeffrey Fleisher on YouTube. https://youtu.be/dgFEaivJJ6A?si=NpDywuR9lR7TL9rN
Im #Linden-Museum Stuttgart rückt eine Ausstellung das Leben von #Chagga-Frauen am Kilimandscharo in den Fokus – und zeigt, wie wichtig die Zusammenarbeit mit der Community für das Thema „kulturelles Erbe“ ist. @thielec.bsky.social beleuchtet ein Projekt zwischen Forschung und Erinnerung:
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Ghana is set to receive over 2,000 cultural artefacts from the Netherlands, while Germany has also identified items linked to the Kpando traditional area for return, according to Foreign Affairs Minis...
Eine Ausstellung im Linden-Museum Stuttgart präsentiert exemplarisch Ergebnisse eines deutsch-tansanischen Forschungsprojekts. Der Archäologe Valence Silayo erforschte 450 Objekte und befragte Nachfahren der Gemeinschaft.
The intent is not ambiguous.
The full story: ajbeall.substack.com/p/the-weight...
Forensic work is reconstructing Shark Island, the first genocide of the twentieth century. Disturbing the dead in order to name them is its own fraught kind of repair. On that contest over Namibia's graves: ajbeall.substack.com/p/stones-bon...
Worth a listen. So much repair after colonialism is sought not in policy but in ritual, where the living still answer to the dead. The sacred is where healing gets negotiated: ajbeall.substack.com/p/speaking-w...
Fifty years on, Regina Mundi, Soweto's Catholic People's Cathedral, still carries the bullet scars from the day it sheltered fleeing students. A sanctuary is seldom consecrated; it is made holy by what it shelters.
The full story: www.scross.co.za/2026/06/june...
When German colonists named the coastal town Swakopmund, “Mouth of the Swakop,” they thought they were being tidy. What they had actually preserved was a local Khoekhoe joke.
The full story: ajbeall.substack.com/p/namibian-h...
