African Collections and Decoloniality - Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja
BAB Interviews and Conversations
English - November 13, 2020 11:05 - 9 minutes - 8.2 MBHistory Science Social Sciences namibia interview history archives oral history african history african studies southern africa sound archives historiography Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja, doctoral student at the University of Cape Town, performed the “Ondaanisa yo Pomudhime” (Dance of the Rubber Tree) at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien and inside its archives shortly before this conversation took place with the BAB archivist. He reflects about the challenges of “decolonizing the archive” and his roles as a performance artist in “cleansing a space which is speaking to ghosts.”.
Conversation with Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja, Namibian performance artist and scholar, September 2019
Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja, doctoral student at the University of Cape Town, performed the “Ondaanisa yo Pomudhime” (Dance of the Rubber Tree) at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien and inside its archives shortly before this conversation took place with the BAB archivist. He reflects about the challenges of “decolonizing the archive” and his roles as a performance artist in “cleansing a space which is speaking to ghosts.”.