Am 29.4. starten die Werkstattgespräche in eine neue Runde! Titel der diesjährigen Veranstaltungsreihe lautet „Zirkulation“.
Prof. Erica Carter (King’s College London)
Archives of Decolonisation: contested memories of Kwame Nkrumah. Kino DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum,
18-20:30 Uhr (s.t.)
Drawing on the DAAD-funded German Screen Studies Network project Circulating Cinema, this lecture explores archival traces from the Global North of Ghana’s postwar transition to independence. Documentary film holdings in East German and British archives reveal independence as a fully mediatized process embedded in Cold War struggles for influence in postcolonial Africa. Bringing together films from both sides of Cold War European divides, the lecture considers Ghana’s first President, the Pan-Africanist Kwame Nkrumah, as a media icon whose image becomes a proxy site of Cold War contestation between East and West. The lecture concludes by asking what new insights might emerge from a repurposing of this transnational archive for a decolonial history of West Africa’s Cold War.