Category: the Return
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Recipe-as-Archive
Kerrievis, or Pickled Fish as it is also known, is a dish that entangles histories of forced migrations and travelling women. In Taati Niilenge’s Walvis Bay: Our Story (2024) Nangula Shikujele remembers the 1960s in Kuisebmond when fish were plentiful and fishers returning from sea would bring fish for the entire community. The neighbourhood would…
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Compounded
Navigating legacies of contract labour / Namibia / Compounded : Navigating legacies of contract labour emerges as a research project from the pressing presence of two albums left to me by my father, JF Morris. The first is a record of architectural works compiled by him between 1958 and 1960 when he was working in…