Remembering the Forgotten: Conversations with Senegal
17th November 2020, 13:30 GMT, online
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With professor Yankhoba Seydi, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, with Kenneth Thomas, People’s Heritage Museum.This event looks at diasporic histories of the transatlantic Slave Trade and how the lives and passages of those enslaved are represented and remembered in Senegal and the UK. Dr Seydi will speak about the approaches taken by curators at the House of Slaves on Gorée Island and the Museum of Civilisation in Senegal in a question and answer session with Kenneth Thomas of the People’s Heritage Museum, co-curator of the exhibition ‘Chip on Your Shoulder’, exploring histories of the Deptford Naval Dockyard and its relationship to the transatlantic Slave Trade, the struggles for freedom and the implications for the local area today.
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