A (Speculative) History of (Colonial) Reparations

Three men wearing period clothes are sitting in a room at a table. Two of them are sitting and one of them to the extreme right is standing.

 

Project Lead: Onyeka Igwe

The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford

Partner Organisations:
Funded by Film London Artist Moving Image Network, Bonington Gallery, June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive, and the Humanities Cultural Programme. 

Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

A (speculative) history of (colonial) reparations’ is a project imagining untold stories of black women involved in the 1940s London anti-colonial movement. It comprises an artist moving image work called A Radical Duet.  In this dual timeline film the fervor and radicalism of 1947 London is used as location to explore the importance of the arts in the political Pan-African movement.  

Amongst the Intellectuals, artists and thinkers from the colonies agitating for an end to the British Empire, two women from different generations come together putting their imagination into writing a revolutionary play. The project also involves a series of intergenerational workshops in Oxford, Nottingham and London exploring the legacies of Pan-African London.

Contact: hcp@torch.ox.ac.uk

Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the

future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.