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.

Kim and Rachel are also celebrating the beginning of Black History Month by sharing new research that they’re excited about, the books and articles that they are reading, and some upcoming events on their radar.

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
• Goods of Luxurious Material
• The 15th and 16th century Portuguese visits
• Annunciation, 1515
• Ambassadors from the Kongo

Previous Episodes We Mentioned

• Ep56. A conversation with Dr. Anta Sané and Dr. Ndongo Symba Sylla about the Senegalese elections
• Ep58. A conversation with Wendell Marsh on the history (and modernity) of Islam and the African world

Transcript

Coming soon!