DW The 77 Percent Jun 30, 2021
The sacred Ngadji drum of the Pokomo community in Kenya was taken by British colonial officers over 100 years ago and is today kept in storage in London’s British Museum. It is just one of thousands of artefacts which are now kept in museums abroad. But no one knows the exact number of missing objects, or where they are today.
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- The Africa Map Circle – “Explorations”
- The African Historical Graphics Archive
- The Africa Map Circle – Introduction & Digital Resource Directory
- Introduction to the BU African Studies/Afriterra “Mapping Africa” Workshop
- Selected Online Links to the Africa Mapping Project
- Learning Under Lockdown: Some Tools & Tips for Online Learning About Africa & the World
- Mapping the Slave Trade: 1556-1823 – A Digital Humanities Project
- Images of early maps on the web – 5. Africa (& the islands) by Tony Campbell
- What is the “Africa Map Circle?” What does it Do? What can it help me do? [Excerpt of “Looted Past”]
- Future of Africa-based Curatorial Practice Workshop | Harvard University Center for African Studies
- Curating a Fractured Past: The Role of Museums, Maps, Manuscripts, Prints, Rare Books, Photos, Artifacts, Literature & the Arts in Embracing Our Common Humanity on a Finite Planet
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