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, & Articles

• White 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 Marsh
• Africa 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 Fromont
• Johann Theodor de Bry and Johann Israel de Bry, First Encounter of the Portuguese with the Ruler of Soyo and his Baptism

Previous Episodes We Mentioned

Ep56. A conversation with Dr. Anta Sané and Dr. Ndongo Symba Sylla about the Senegalese elections

Find the books, links, and articles we mentioned in this episode on our website, ufahamuafrica.com.