Tag: Decolonising

• Mapping identities

  

  Starting with a flight into Dublin and ending with monoculture farming, this piece looks at the usefulness of categorisation as a way of understanding the world and its inhabitants. Influenced by the work of Lina Iris Viktor and ideas from Emma Dabiri.

  Debbie Meniru

  August 10, 2022

  Writing

  A Haven. A Hell. A Dream Deferred., Art, Art Collection, blackness, Categorisation, Categorization, Collections, Colonisation, Decolonising, Decolonizing, Emma Dabiri, Lina Iris Viktor, Maps, Mixed race, Museums, Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower, race, whiteness

• Ghosts in the museum

  A tour around a Bristol landmark revealed some ghosts that had been haunting the city all along.

  Debbie Meniru

  April 3, 2021

  Writing

  Bristol, Cabinet of curiosities, Cheryl Meszaros, Crest, Decolonising, Decolonizing, Edward Colston, Ghosts, Hauntology, Jacques Derrida, Logo, Museums, Sara Wajid, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building

• Fried yam in the museum

  I had long thought my dad was a poor communicator, but reading Things Fall Apart led me to reconsider what we desire from communication in museums and in life.

  Debbie Meniru

  April 3, 2021

  Writing

  Chinua Achebe, Communication, Deborah, Decolonising, Decolonizing, Family, Fried yam, Igbo, Interpretation, Language, Museums, Names, Nigeria, Nkechi, Things Fall Apart

• How did the African collection end up in the basement?

  After twenty years in the British Museum’s basement, Africa is due to be given greater prominence by a new initiative announced this month. But how did the African collection end up underground in the first place?

  Debbie Meniru

  March 27, 2021

  Writing

  Africa, British Museum, Collections, Decolonising, Decolonizing, History, Museums