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Baraza la Kiswahili la Berlin

ZMO

ZMO

Baraza la Kiswahili la Berlin, organised by the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, offers a semi-regular platform for Swahilophone researchers, advanced students and interested members of the public to engage in discussions of varying academic spheres. While simultaneously providing an informal environment from which East African authors, poets and other personalities can engage in discussions holistically.

On January 6, 2020, Laibor Kalanga Moko gave a presentation titled "Ethnographia huru: Kifani ya Makusanyo ya Ethnographia ya Tanzania katika Jumba la Makumbusho la Berlin", in which he presented his PhD research proposal on the decolonisation of ethnographic collections with a case of selected objects acquired by German colonial collectors during Maji Maji war, one of the anti-colonial resistance wars during German colonialism in what is today Tanzania.