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  • "Allo Kafi Gida" by Antoine Lema

    "Allo Kafi Gida" by Antoine Lema

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    Published by Five Continents Editions in 2019, Allo Kafii Gida: Secret Qur’anic Boards from Northern Nigeria by Antoine Lema constitutes a hybrid object situated between ethnographic documentation, art-historical inquiry, and...

    "Allo Kafi Gida" by Antoine Lema

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    Published by Five Continents Editions in 2019, Allo Kafii Gida: Secret Qur’anic Boards from Northern Nigeria by Antoine Lema constitutes a hybrid object situated between ethnographic documentation, art-historical inquiry, and...

  • Where does history begin? Does it begin within a bounded window of the past? Or does it begin yesterday?

    Where does history begin? Does it begin within ...

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    "On the Chronology of Benin's Art: Between Museum, Market, and Myth" by Dr. Stefan Eisenhofer. This is the title of a lecture announced by the “Association of Friends of African...

    Where does history begin? Does it begin within ...

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    "On the Chronology of Benin's Art: Between Museum, Market, and Myth" by Dr. Stefan Eisenhofer. This is the title of a lecture announced by the “Association of Friends of African...

  • Provenance research and the Continent behind the wall

    Provenance research and the Continent behind th...

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    When I enter an ethnological museum, I expect something simple: stories about objects. Masks, figures, vessels—things that have traveled a long way before ending up in climate-controlled display cases. I...

    Provenance research and the Continent behind th...

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    When I enter an ethnological museum, I expect something simple: stories about objects. Masks, figures, vessels—things that have traveled a long way before ending up in climate-controlled display cases. I...

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