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Tenga Tenga: Can I Help Carry Your Load?

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https://doi.org/10.5070/R75159678Creative Commons 'BY' version 4.0 license
Abstract

My work can be read as a reengagement with colonial history that seeks to center Indigenous voices, particularly those from Zambia. My latest project focuses on a modest brick monument made to commemorate the Tenga Tenga, Africans drafted as porters during World War I. With this project I aim to remember the Tenga Tenga through performance art as a way to reinscribe their presence onto the contemporary story of present-day Zambia.

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