Kokou Azamede

Senior Fellow

September - December 2021

Kokou Azamede is associate professor in the Department of German Studies of the University of Lomé. He was postdoctoral research fellow of DAAD (2010 & 2014 in Bremen), the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (2012-2013). His research interests are Postcolonial Cultural Theories (inter- and transcultural studies); German Colonialism, German Christian Missions, German colonial photography in West Africa. He created the website http://kolonialfotografie.com/ for pedagogical introduction to the use of colonial images from Togo.

MIASA’s fifth Interdisciplinary Fellow Group (IFG 5) addresses matters of restitution of looted cultural objects in an interdisciplinary approach by interrogating the four ‘Rs’ – restitution, return, repatriation and reparation – ... Read more

Institute:
Université de Lomé

Year:
2021/2022

Interdisciplinary Fellow Group:
IFG 5