7. Remembering the Forgotten, November 2020

As part of the exhibition Chip on Your Shoulder, Professor Yankhoba Seydi from Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar was invited by Deptford People’s Heritage Museum to discuss diasporic histories of the transatlantic Slave Trade and how the lives and passages of those enslaved are represented and remembered in Senegal and the UK. Dr Seydi spoke about the approaches taken by curators at the House of Slaves on Gorée Island and the Museum of Civilisation in Senegal in a question and answer session with co-curators Kenneth Thomas and Joyce Jacca, exploring histories of the Deptford Naval Dockyard and its relationship to the transatlantic Slave Trade, the struggles for freedom, and the implications for the local area today.