Under the title “Traffickers of heritage. Who were the Catalan protagonists of colonial plunder” the history magazine publishes in its January 2025 issue a monographic dossier inspired by our work, which in its first phase has detected more than 3000 pieces from the former Spanish colonies of Guinea, Morocco and the Philippines, currently deposited in Catalan museums.
Among the (Tr)african(t)s team, Gustau Nerin, coordinator of the monographic, Alberto López Bargados, Alba Valenciano, Jordi Tomàs, Sarai Martín, José A. Simón and Álex Tejero have written and advised the journalists of Sàpiens.
Clàudia Pujol, the director of the publication, in her diary about the monograph entitled “Patrimoni incòmode” quotes Frantz Fanon: “Colonialism and imperialism did not settle accounts with us when they removed their flags from our territories” and underlines the need to work to repair human relationships seriously damaged during the looting, military campaigns, evangelizing missions and scientific and ethnographic expeditions of the long colonial night.
The work with the media and informative or specialized magazines is part of the project’s orientation towards a greater social impact of these issues and the desire to open a deep debate in Catalonia about the contemporary consequences of our colonial past.
You can consult the dossier (for a fee), here:
https://www.sapiens.cat/revista/sapiens-274
