Colonialism - a musical oral history performance with Wangari Grace and Sven Kacirek
Kenyan storyteller Wangari Grace and German musician and producer Sven Kacirek began developing their performance because of their common experience that school education on colonialism was profoundly lacking, both in Germany and other European countries, but also in Kenya and other African countries. Often a story of distant political events and ‘great’ men, Grace and Kacirek wanted to present the experience and suffering of ordinary people from a distinctively African perspective, thereby highlighting the exploitative practices of Europeans in relation to local populations.
Wangari and Sven performed extracts from their program before we sat down and talked about the production and the reasoning behind the show as well as wider issues connected to colonialism.
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Photographs by Jen Sicka