Mourning the Dead: Connecting histories of people, places, and remains

Katika kipindi hiki, Bongani Kona anatembelea tena waasi wa vijijini ili kukomboa nchi yake ya Zimbabwe kutoka kwa utawala wa wazungu katika miaka hii ya 1970. Kona anasema kuwa jinsi maadhimisho ya waliouawa kutokana na vita hivi yanavyofanywa na serikali ya baada ya ukoloni, ni suala linaloathiri masilahi ya walio hai na waliokufa. Hili ni toleo la Kiswahili la podikasti hii. Unaweza pia kusikil...

In this episode, Bongani Kona revisits the largely rural insurgency to liberate his homeland of Zimbabwe from white rule in this 1970s. How the slain from this war are commemorated by the postcolonial state, Kona argues, is a matter that affects the well-being of both the living and the dead. This is the English version of this podcast. You can also listen to the versions in French and Swahili . C...

In this episode, we embark on a journey with the Karanga Aotearoa Repatriation Programme, which is situated at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The Karanga Aotearoa Repatriation Programme is as an indigenous-led and government-mandated authority who negotiates the return of ancestral remains from both public and private collections nationally and internationally. Since the programme wa...

Seŋ n’a midini ahiogi na yikini ɓa Batibo na e midin ka edi duk kai zan: dû handa a na midini seŋ na zamangai zaw allemangai ezin wiidi dai na murdakai. Seŋ zi dû hi handa a muda midini gir na a na kapai emidi edi midini ahiogi na yikini ɓa Batibo, ni na amra war buza mituwis, warni mefen zaw zaman na zamangai eda war Kamarun. Dû handa a na midini seŋ na nassarakai e firyi ɓa e midin edi kai. Buri...

This episode is about the impossibility of telling the story of a child from Batibo, who died during the German colonial period in Cameroon at about eight years old. It is about the deliberate erasure of people, their knowledge, their culture, societal and political structures and the very real challenges with which this violence confronts us today. Current efforts towards restitution have to navi...

Ci pàcc bii, Ibrahima Thiaw ak Lamine Badji dañuy indi ay leeral ci anam yi nga xamantane dañuy faral di tàr lool ci sosum xam-xam ci Institut Français d'Afrique Noire. Institut bi, ñu gën ko xamee cii IFAN, dakar lañ ko ubbi woon ci atim 1936. Porogaraamam mo nekkoo jang nit yu bokkoom ci deuk bu Afrik Soowu Jant bu Farañsé yi Kolonisé woon - seen aada, seen cosaan ak seen diiwaan. Ibrahima T...

In this episode, Ibrahima Thiaw and Lamine Badji shed light on the often brutal ways in which knowledge was created at the Institut Français d'Afrique Noire. The agenda of the institute, better known as IFAN, was to study the people of the French West African empire. Ibrahima Thiaw and Lamine Badji discuss the urgency of addressing the colonial legacy of institutions such as IFAN in a sovereig...

In 2003, kommie construction vanne groot residential en retail complex in Greenpoint, een vannie mee welaf, trendy districts vannie Kaap, totte grinding halt. Construction wêkes ondek toe ooskot van mense onnerie grond. Unexpectedly, trigger dié find die mees symbolic struggles relating na political memories and neoliberal urban planning inne post-apartheid era in Suid Afrika. Dit issie Kaapse wee...

In 2003, the construction of a major residential and retail complex in Green Point, one of the more affluent, trendy districts of Cape Town, came to a grinding halt. Construction workers found the remains of people beneath the ground. Unexpectedly, these findings triggered one of the most symbolic struggles relating to memory politics and neoliberal urban planning in the post-apartheid era in Sout...

Sophie Schasiepen introduces the histories discussed in the different episodes, gives some context to the choice of languages and talks about the reasons for creating the Mourning the Dead podcast.  'Mourning the Dead: Connecting histories of people, places, and remains' is a podcast about histories connected to the mortal remains of people. We talk about the violent dislocation of remains...