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:
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
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...
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...
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...
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...