“The Unfinished Conversations Series / Colonial Slavery and its Afterlives in South Africa” exhibition with HIAA PhD Candidate Yannick Etoundi as lead curator opens in Cape Town, South Africa
Congratulations to HIAA PhD candidate Yannick Etoundi and Simmons Center Director Anthony Bogues for the opening of an exhibition adapted from The Unfinished Conversations Series oral/public history project at the Iziko Slave Lodge in Cape Town, South Africa. “The Unfinished Conversations Series / Colonial Slavery and its Afterlives In South Africa” is a glimpse into the living repository of over 150 oral histories that has been collected to tell the global story of how racial slavery and European colonialism were foundational planks of the making of the modern world. As the third iteration of this traveling exhibition following a recent opening at the Instituto de Pesquisa e Memória Pretos Novos (IPN) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, “The Unfinished Conversation Series / Colonial Slavery and its Afterlives in South Africa” brings focus to the lasting legacies of colonial slavery, colonialism and apartheid in farmworker communities in the Western Cape.
This exhibition is part of a series of initiatives instigated by the Global Curatorial Project, which includes the major global exhibition “In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World” now on view at the Iziko South African National Gallery and the documentary “Uncorking the Bitter Truth: Slavery’s Legacy in Cape Wine.” Institutional partners for these projects include the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice, the Iziko Museums of South Africa and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture.
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