October 15, 2024 - Discussion: Colonialism. How can Europe take responsibility. A pan-African perspective

The painful history of German colonialism is known to many in East Africa through the tragic fate of the population in the Maji Maji War and in South West Africa through the near extermination of the Herero and Nama. In contrast, the history of the German presence in Central Africa, Cameroon, and West Africa, Togo, is less talked about in the European public sphere. How do the people in these countries assimilate their colonial history, especially that of German colonization? What memory of this period remains in the memories and in the space (understood here as physical space, but also as political, cultural, religious or educational space, etc.) in these countries?

The event provides perspectives on German colonialism from an African point of view. Prof. Dr. Didier Houénoudé discusses with: Dr. Sonia Lawson, Director of the Palais de Lomé, the former German governor's palace that now serves as an art center, Dr. Hugues Heumen, Director of the National Museum of Cameroon, and Dr. Franck Ogou, Director of the École du Patrimoine Africain (EPA), a pan-African school that aims to reappropriate African tangible and intangible heritage.

The discussion will be held in French. A translation will be provided with the kind support of the Centrum Frankreich | Frankophonie of the TUD Dresden University of Technology.

WHEN: October 15, 2024, 18:00-20:00
WHERE: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections), in the atrium of the Albertinum, Tzschirnerplatz 2, 01067 Dresden