@article{LeGall2020,
  author    = {LeGall, Yann},
  title     = {Songea Mbano and the 'halfway dead' of the Majimaji War (1905-7) in memory and theatre},
  series = {Human Remains and Violence: an interdisciplinary journal},
  volume    = {6},
  journal   = {Human Remains and Violence: an interdisciplinary journal},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {University Press},
  address   = {Manchester},
  doi       = {10.7227/HRV.6.2.2},
  pages     = {4 -- 22},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Debates on the relevance of repatriation of indigenous human remains are water under the bridge today. Yet, a genuine will for dialogue to work through colonial violence is found lacking in the European public sphere. Looking at local remembrance of the Majimaji War (1905-07) in the south of Tanzania and a German-Tanzanian theatre production, this article demonstrates how the spectre of colonial headhunting stands at the heart of claims for repatriation and acknowledgement of this anti-colonial movement. The missing head of Ngoni leader Songea Mbano haunts the future of German-Tanzanian relations in culture and heritage. By staging the act of post-mortem dismemberment and foregrounding the perspective of descendants, the theatre production Maji Maji Flava offers an honest proposal for dealing with stories of sheer colonial violence in transnational memory.},
  language  = {en}
}