TY  - JOUR
A1  - LeGall, Yann
T1  - Songea Mbano and the ‘halfway dead’ of the Majimaji War (1905–7) in memory and theatre
JF  - Human Remains and Violence: an interdisciplinary journal
N2  - 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.
KW  - colonialism
KW  - memory
KW  - tanzania
KW  - Deutsch Ostafrika
KW  - Theater
KW  - Kolonialismus
KW  - Erinnerungskultur
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.7227/HRV.6.2.2
VL  - 6
IS  - 2
SP  - 4
EP  - 22
PB  - University Press
CY  - Manchester
ER  -