Excerpts from a presentation offered to the Ticknor Society of Boston http://www.ticknor.org
For further information on the work and accomplishments of Chao Tayiana Maina see:
Visible Histories, Invisible Data: Documenting the Histories of Migrated Objects and Archives in Africa
and
African Digital Heritage)
This African Digital Heritage website contains the excellent video documentary by Deutsche Welle.
See also: https://africandigitalheritage.org/chao-tayiana-maina/ )
and
Museum of British Colonialism – MBC
and
Open Access to Information on Restitution
as well as:
Chao Tayiana – Digital skills for Kenya’s cultural heritage sector
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See related topics concerning “who owns history,?” what constitutes the “legitimate history” of empire? How can se bound the “peoples’ story?”, etc…
- The Problem of Collection Creep [from The Ticknor Society] “Book Collecting at the End of Empire…”
- Recovering a Looted Past: “Repatriating” African History & The Question of “Just” Reparations
- Maps, Stones & Plants: Agents of Empire and the Ecology of the Atlantic Trade
- Agents of Empire: Steps Toward an Ecology of Imperialism | T. C. Weiskel
- “From Gallery to Reality (… and Back): The Display of Art and the Art of Display in the Digital Age”
- Recovering a Looted Past: “Repatriating” African History – Digitizing Historical Maps, Images & Artifacts to Enhance Global Collaborative Research & Understanding
- University of Cape Coast – Conference Resources
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Historical maps and the books they come from underscore the centuries-old crises of coastal settlement in Africa that have become increasingly acute through the successive periods of African history since the 1480s. From the age of the slave trade itself, to the era of so-called “legitimate” commerce, the period of colonial rule and the most recent stage of African political “independence” the continent of Africa has demonstrated to the world that humankind is in grave danger of the global changes underway in Earth’s changing climate.
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Transition Studies 