African Object Lessons
5 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -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.
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Episodes
Episode 5 - Alafuro Sikoki-Coleman on exhibition design
December 08, 2021 18:15 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBAlafuro 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.
Episode 4: George Emeka Agbo on researching near home
September 27, 2021 15:35 - 43 minutes - 40 MBGeorge 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.
Episode 3: Yvonne Chioma Mbanefo on Igbo Audio Recordings
August 09, 2021 17:00 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBYvonne Chioma Mbanefo tells us about her engagement with Igbo audio recordings as part of her involvement with the [Re:]Entanglements project.
Episode 2: Paul Basu on [Re:]Entanglements
July 10, 2021 08:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBPaul 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.
Episode 1: Introducing African Object Lessons
July 03, 2021 08:00 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBPodcast 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.