The right to listen to the voices of the ancestors: a plea
A plea for making phonographic recordings from Togo accessible to the people of Togo. Submitted to the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv on March 21, 2023.
Literature as colonial loot: histories of provenance
Ausstellung vom 26.04 bis zum 30.06. 26. April, 18 - 20 Uhr: Eröffnung und Gastvortrag von Mèhèza Kalibani: Stimmen als Beute: Wie Gesänge und Sprichwörter von Kolonisierten nach Berlin gelangten.
There and back again: From West Africa to Westphalia and back again
Felix Gräfenberg (History Commission for Westphalia) interviews Mèhèza Kalibani on how to deal with colonial sound records on Togo. Kalibani explains the significance of acoustic sources in colonial history research, tells about her research trip to West Africa and clarifies what all this has to do with Westphalia.
Accessing Colonial Sound Archives
By outlining the institutional histories of colonial sound collections and focusing on two particular recordings, we address the double sensitive nature of historical audio sources. We aim to raise questions about the politics of access and presentation of sensitive sound material and argue for a plurality of interpretations of colonial sound archives.
Colonial artifacts: Looted, exhibited and then hidden
The management of inventories by German ethnographic museums and the challenges for African researchers in the debate on the restitution of African heritage.
