Ep. 106: Repatriation of Museum Objects, Part 2

This week's episode features Cécile Fromont, an associate professor of art history at Yale University, who was a panelist for "Repatriation of Museum Objects," an event held by Cornell University's Institute for European Studies. She shares her perspective through four stories, drawing on her work as a historian of African and visual material culture in the early modern period. Listen to part 1 of this episode for more context about the event. Books, Links, & ArticlesWhite Ferocity:The Genocides of Non-Whites and Non-Aryans from 1492 to Date by Rosa Amelia Plumelle-Uribe"Histories of Dress: Fashioning Identity in West Africa and the United States" by Kayla Renée Wheeler and Jody Benjamin"Black Islam Syllabus" by Kayla Renée Wheeler"A Genealogy of African Islam Modernity" by Wendell MarshAfrica Development, Volume 45, n° 2, 2020"Ferocity of Whites, Ferocity of Capitalism" by Samir Amin"Some GOP members didn’t accept Biden’s win. What happens when an anti-democratic faction rocks a democracy?" by Rachel Beatty Riedl and Kenneth Roberts"There’s a long, troubling history behind the Capitol attack" by Kathleen Klaus and Aditi Malik"Museveni’s Rhetorical Belief in Democracy and the 2021 Elections in Uganda" by Moses Khisa"Uganda opposition leader Bobi Wine calls on court to nullify election result" by Samuel Okiror"EO.0.0.7943 in Forum on Decolonisation and colonial collections: An unresolved conflict" by Maarten Couttenier"Common Threads: Cloth, Colour, and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Kongo and Angola" by Cécile FromontJohann Theodor de Bry and Johann Israel de Bry, First Encounter of the Portuguese with the Ruler of Soyo and his BaptismPrevious Episodes We MentionedEp56. A conversation with Dr. Anta Sané and Dr. Ndongo Symba Sylla about the Senegalese electionsFind the books, links, and articles we mentioned in this episode on our website, ufahamuafrica.com.