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.
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From Windhoek to Kamina to Nauen - A Workbook
From Windhoek to Kamina to Nauen listens to the present-day echoes of telegraphy between Nauen (Germany), Kamina (Togo), and Windhoek (Namibia).
The colonial ear
With the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the sound not only became a museum artifact in the European ethnological context but this invention also offered new opportunities for scholars in their attempt to study the so-called ?primitives?
