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ABOVE: Mask, kifwebe.
DR Congo.
Acquired by H. Fonck for the museum
in 1905.
Linden-Museum, Stuttgart,
inv. 043811. Photo: Anatol Dreyer,
© Linden-Museum Stuttgart.
BELOW: Power object, nkisi
nkondi Mangaaka. Angola.
Acquired by the museum in 1903.
Linden-Museum, Stuttgart,
inv. 029623. Photo: Anatol Dreyer,
© Linden-Museum Stuttgart.
ABOVE: Ivory pendant. Kingdom
of Benin, Nigeria.
Acquired by the museum in 1964.
Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, inv. F 50565.
Photo: Anatol Dreyer, © Linden-Museum
Stuttgart.
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ABOVE: Letter written by
King Ibrahim Njoya (c. 1860–
1933) in Foumban, western
Cameroon, in an early form
of Shumom, a script for the
Bamun language.
Cameroon. Acquired in 1905.
Linden-Museum Stuttgart,
inv. F54452.
Photo: Anatol Dreyer, © Linden-
Museum, Stuttgart.
BELOW: Secret society
headdress. Ekpo; Nigeria.
Collected by Leo Frobenius in 1903.
Linden-Museum, Stuttgart,
inv. 028421.
Photo: Anatol Dreyer, © Linden-
Museum, Stuttgart.
Who Is Africa?
STUTTGART—In an extension of the exhibition at the
BOZAR Museum in Brussels, the Linden-Museum is taking
a new and critical view of its own collection of African
art. It is revisiting how these pieces were collected, classifi
ed, and separated into different categories according to
period and fashion. The story that emerges is so complex
that the question arises: Who is Africa? Wo ist Afrika? is
a new semi-permanent installation that features pieces
from Cameroon, the Congo Basin, Mozambique, Nigeria,
and Tanzania, most of which date from the end of the
nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. In it,
the museum reconsiders its own objects and endeavors
to understand and reconstruct their history, their context,
and their signifi cance in the world today. The show also
examines the place of the museum today and that of the
artworks it holds.