Making African Connections blog
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By Gase Kediseng, Khama III Memorial Museum Even though I haven’t had the privilege of seeing the actual objects, I am intrigued by the craftsmanship displayed in the objects which spells excellence and perfection. Imagining that they did not have the luxury of specialised tools to enable them to work on the finer details of …
Continue reading “Local Meanings for the Willoughby Collection”
In this blog Emma Watson discusses her project ‘Moments of exchange in colonial collections: the 1937 Diana Powell-Cotton Angola diaries and their legacy’, funded by the University of Sussex Junior Research Associate Scheme. Emma is currently studying a BA in English and Art History at the University of Sussex. The Powell-Cotton Museum’s rich archive of …
Continue reading “Reconsidering the Narrative: Diana Powell-Cotton’s 1937 diary”
In this blog JoAnn McGregor, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sussex and Principal Investigator of the Making African Connections project, discusses ongoing research in Botswana. Nicola Stylianou (Post-Doctoral Research Asssociate) and I spent the last 10 days with our Botswana colleagues Scobie Lekhutile (Curator, Khama III Memorial Museum) and Winani Thebele (Chief …
Continue reading “The provenance and meanings of nineteenth century objects: research in Botswana”
I’m James, I’m a co-investigator on Making African Connections, and I run the digital component of the project. This involved much more than running a website. It is it imaging, cataloguing, metadata processing, rights management, and digital preservation, all informed by the intellectual and ethical agendas of the project, which span Geography, Museum Studies, Digital …
Continue reading “Statement of Values, Principles, and Approaches”
One of the greatest pleasures in working on this project, and a cornerstone in the project’s methodology, is working with colleagues from Africa. We were delighted when our partners from Namibia and Botswana, who were visiting us for the project launch, agreed to contribute to a Sussex Africa Centre Seminar. The topic was ‘Heritage in …
Continue reading “Heritage in Southern Africa: debating decolonizing agendas”
Last week was the first time that everybody working on the Making African Connections project was in the same room together. This was a very exciting moment for us and was no small feat, people travelled from Namibia, Botswana, Sudan and all across the UK to attend our first project workshop. We began by discussing …
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