Lecture

Visual artists, filmmakers, musiciansand performers , will be on site or digitally connected from the African continent to meet and present professionals and the public with their work and research based on the museum’'s many (written, visual and sound archives). They will also discuss their practices and experiences, and to question their relationship with the archive and the museum institution. 
 
Saturday 14 October will be open to the public and will feature three types of encounters. Artists will present their work in three hour-long thematic sessions. There will also be a round-table discussion, at 2:30 pm, on the theme of Appropriating museum archives: practices issues; problems; featuring historian Amzat Boukari and researcher Lotte Arndt.
 
Sunday 15 October will be devoted to networking and discussions with the public, from 2pm in the auditorium. No reservation needed. Teddy Mazina will also be present at the public opening of the MY NAME IS NO-BODY exhibition, for which you do need to register. 
 
Participants include: On Ying Adila Yip, Eric Androa Mindre, Maximilien Atangana, Hilary Balu, Rokia Bamba, Tatiana Bohm, Sarah Carlier, Matthias De Groof, Beau Disundi, Koenraad Ecker, Eddy Ekete, Johan Grimonprez, Stephane Kabila, Kabeya, Victoire Karera, Jean Kamba, Sixte Kakinda, Pytshens Kambilo, Nicole Letuppe, Johnny Leya, Maliza Liebeskind, Emilio López-Menchero, Frédéric Lubansu, Arno Luzamba, Heritier M. Bilaka, Teddy Mazina, Aimé Mpane, Innocent Muhozi, Freddy Mutombo, Paulvi Ngimbi, Precy Numbi, Haldi Nzia Okudheyo, Rosy Sambwa, Prisca Tankwey, Anne-Françoise Tasnier, Fransix Tenda, Jérémy Tshiyembi Koyoka, Eric Van den Abeele, Jonathan Vatunga…

> (Re)-appropriation, artists biographies

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Als eerste in je familie starten met hogere studies is een hele stap. Maar wat als je daarnaast ook een migratieachtergrond hebt?

Op dit event focussen we samen met het AfricaMuseum, Trill en Karibu op de ervaringen van pionierstudenten met een migratieachtergrond. Zij krijgen in de praktijk met tal van extra drempels te maken. Gebrek aan representatie binnen het schoolsysteem bijvoorbeeld, maar ook racisme en discriminatie. En ze komen sneller in het watervalsysteem terecht.

Nadia Nsayi (AfricaMuseum) en Bitshilualua Kabeya (Avansa Oost-Brabant) hosten het event.

Tijdens het panelgesprek doen pionierstudenten hun verhaal. Zij wisselen schoolervaringen uit met elkaar en met het publiek vanop het podium. Kwestie van elkaar te empoweren.

Klinisch psycholoog Dr. Ama Kissi observeert en ondersteunt het panelgesprek. Zij geeft de studenten tools en tricks mee naar huis. Om met de kansen en obstakels om te gaan. Nadien verwelkomen we ook Fatma Özdemir gedragscounselor en auti-coach, stagecoördinator, docente voor bijkomende feedback.

We sluiten de avond af met Slam Poetry en een receptie.

Only available in Dutch.

À propos de l'oratrice

In 2001, Rosy Sambwa graduated from ESMOD, the first French fashion school dedicated to Fashion Design and Fashion Business. What marked her was the absence of African and Asian countries in her courses. This was the starting point for her research. Today, she speaks and writes about fashion, notably for the magazine ELLE Côte d'Ivoire, because every garment carries a message. In order to decolonise people's minds, she uses clothes, as they have been used to create a superior image of certain countries and peoples.

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Photo by Mokhamad Edliadi/CIFOR

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Dr. Anywar Godwin is a researcher, academician, entrepreneur and author. He holds a PhD from the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy & Immunology in Leipzig, the University of Leipzig and Makerere University, Kampala. He currently lectures at the Department of Plant Sciences, Microbiology & Biotechnology at Makerere University, Uganda. His research interests are in the field of natural product development, pharmacognosy, ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology and indigenous knowledge.

Dr. Njabulo Chipangura holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is currently working at the University of Manchester Museum as a curator of living Cultures and is responsible for the care of more than 20,000 objects from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. He is interested in looking at the empirical ways by which the museum practice in Africa can be decolonised through epistemic and aesthetic disobedience by undoing earlier ways of knowledge production in collection practices and exhibitions. Thus, he has carried out research that looks at how national museums in Africa continue to reproduce colonial forms of knowledge and at what it means to decolonise the museum practice.

The talk will be hosted by Mercy Gloria Ashepet. Mercy is currently conducting her PhD research at the AfricaMuseum, in which she explores the potential of 'citizen science' in Uganda. She is also co-facilitating the Decolonise Nature challenge of the Transdisciplinary Insights Honours Programme at KU Leuven.
 

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In this MuseumTalk, Sarah Van Beurden will present her book, which makes a remarkable contribution to the current debate around the decolonization of museums, restitution and cultural policy before and after the independence of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The MuseumTalk will be hosted by Anne Wetsi Mpoma.

About the speakers

• Sarah Van Beurden is Belgian and earned her bachelor’s degree in history from KU Leuven and her Ph.D in history from the University of Pennsylvania. She is now associate professor of History and African Studies at the Ohio State University. She is a member of the Expert Group of the Special Parliamentary Committee on the Colonial Past.
• Anne Wetsi Mpoma is an art historian, independent curator and decolonial thinker. In October 2019, she founded the Wetsi Art Gallery, a space whose starting point is the lack of visibility suffered by certain categories of artists. The space is entirely dedicated to the revaluation of artistic productions of the African diaspora in a broad sense. From 2014 to 2017, she was part of the group of experts from the African diaspora consulted by the AfricaMuseum for the selection of objects for the museum’s new permanent exhibition. She is also a member of the group of experts who drafted the first report of the federal parliamentary commission in charge of researching the Belgian colonial past.

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