Name: 99 Questions with Njoki Ngumi and Jim Chuchu from the Nest Collective by 99questions
Duration: 44 min 48 s
Description: In our second episode, we are joined by Njoki Ngumi and Jim Chuchu from the Nairobi-based collective The Nest. We talk about the politics of object restitution and provenance research as a means of distraction.The conversation also looks critically at the attempts of European museums to distract and legitimize, as well as at how the restitution of African objects can queer our past and present.

In the first episode, our host Feven Keleta talks with anthropologist Sharon Macdonald about the relationship between museums and national identity, and the complex nature of big museum projects like the Humboldt Forum. We are also joined by art historian and curator El Hadji Malick Ndiaye who argues for the re-socialization of African objects and how this is intertwined with cultural heritage, history, and human rights.

99 Questions with Sharon Macdonald and El Hadji Malick Ndiaye

In our second episode, we are joined by Njoki Ngumi and Jim Chuchu from the Nairobi-based collective The Nest. We talk about the politics of object restitution and provenance research as a means of distraction.The conversation also looks critically at the attempts of European museums to distract and legitimize, as well as at how the restitution of African objects can queer our past and present.

99 Questions with Njoki Ngumi and Jim Chuchu from the Nest Collective

In this episode, we're joined by Sima Luipert, chairperson of the Nama Traditional Leaders Association and Nandiuasora Mazeingo, chairperson of the Ovaherero Genocide Foundation. Sima and Nandi talk about the ramifications of the first genocide of the 20th century by critically examining its planning and implementation.
This is the first part of our double episode that deals with Germany's war atrocities and colonial crimes that were leading up to the genocide against the Nama and Ovaherero people in Namibia between 1904 and 1908.
For additional information, please visit the website of the Ovaherero Genocide Foundation (OGF) https://ogfnamibia.org/ and https://www.namatraditionalleadersassociation.org/
You can also follow the OGF on Twitter: @OGF_Namibia.

99 Questions with Sima Luipert and Nandiuasora Mazeingo

This is the second part of our double episode that deals with Germany's war atrocities and colonial crimes that were leading up to the genocide against the Nama and Ovaherero people in Namibia between 1904 and 1908. In this episode, we are joined by writer and researcher Dr. Zoé Samudzi and curator and artist Kathleen Bomani, who draw attention to the manifestations of German settler colonialism in and outside of Namibia and East Africa.

99 Questions with Zoé Samudzi and Kathleen Bomani

The 99 Questions Podcast series provides conversations with interchanging hosts and a variety of guests on the subject of museums and their connections to colonialism, approaches to hosting relations within museums and processes of world-making.  
Responding to questions raised throughout the 99 Questions programme, each series contains 5 episodes dedicated to a subject and shares insights of speakers, including artists, activists and academics, and their experiences, knowledge and perspective on museum practices in postcolonial societies.

Newer episodes are available on our Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Deezer, Amazon Music and Google Podcast channels.

99 Questions with Njoki Ngumi and Jim Chuchu from the Nest Collective

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