November 1884 The Berlin Conference : When They Cut The Continent Like A Cake
Tobi Ayé Tobi Ayé

November 1884 The Berlin Conference : When They Cut The Continent Like A Cake

The Berlin Conference was not only a political meeting; it was a performance of power over. The kind of power that fragments, silences and erases. It declared ownership over peoples and lands were never theirs to own. So this space is born out of remembrance and also out of refusal. It is an act of returning to what was taken, of reclaiming AGENCY, RESPECT AND ANCESTRAL SOVEREIGNTY that were denied to us when others decided our borders, our names, our fates. 

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