Decolonizing reconciliation: Changing the narrative to the indigenous museums of peace in Kenya and South Sudan
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Decolonizing reconciliation: Changing the narrative to the indigenous museums of peace in Kenya and South Sudan
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Sultan Somjee
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English
Swahili
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In this presentation I focus on the indigenous arts and aesthetics of reconciliation. Often the indigenous arts are collective cultural productions of the village square. These performances carry social, political, environmental and spiritual meanings as agencies that influence the body and therefore the language of reconciliation. In 1994, I used indigenous arts to create museums of peacei during the volatile decade in eastern Africa. Today, the peace museums are meeting spaces for community-based civil societies in the villages. Together, they solicit common paths toward the closure of conflicts at different levels of society by drawing from local heritages: oral histories, arts and their collective memories.

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Florida International University
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Florida International University
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