Vienna and the Ga-Asante human zoo

Welcome to our Identity Issue – the audio segment of our 7th digital magazine issues where we ask ‘what being Ghanaians means to you?’

PhD researcher Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński talks with Abena Sɛwaa about her forthcoming exhibition  (21 October 2021 – 6 March 2022)  at Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna) in Austria.

The exhibition is based on documents and a book by Peter Altenberg about a human zoo in Vienna. Belinda explains the narrative behind the human zoo that housed Ga communities from Osu.

These Ga communities were marketed to European visitors as Ashanti. The image of Belinda is the © of Abiona Esther Ojo

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