Exhibition "Africa Amongst Us*"

A recent donation to the Benaki Museum, with objects mainly from Nigeria, Cameroon and Kenya, acted as trigger to collect stories of people of African descent born or living in Greece. “Africa Amongst us*” is a participatory exhibition which brings the afro-diasporic community of Greece to the forefront designed of, by and for over thirty members of the communities in Greece, carried out in collaboration with the ANASA Cultural Centre for African Art and Cultures.

The result of this collaboration and the creation of new content presents the richness of African, Greek-African and Pan-African cultural heritage through artworks, material culture, archival material, personal objects as well as the narratives that accompany them. This exhibition demonstrates the universal truth that objects can tell stories that empower us and help build strong communities.