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Malika Kraamer

University of Bonn, Germany

I am a visual storyteller with a passion for transcultural and transdisciplinary work. As a curator and cultural historian focusing on Africa and South Asia, I specialise in critical museum, heritage, disability and material culture studies. My primary focus is textiles and fashions, through which I examine West African historical entanglements with the world and how they are materialised and narrated today. My current research explores the regional and global connections of historical textiles from Ghana, Togo, and Côte d’Ivoire with many partners in West Africa.

I began my academic journey at the Design Academy in Eindhoven. After studying at Erasmus University Rotterdam, which included studies at Leiden University, University of Firenze, and Sorbonne IV, I completed my PhD in African Art on Ewe kente at SOAS, University of London in 2005, under the supervision of Prof. John Picton. Subsequently, I worked as the Curator of World Cultures at Leicester Museums (UK) for over 10 years and for three years as the Curator of the Africa Collections at MARKK in Hamburg (Germany). Since 2023, I am an affiliated researcher with the Global Heritage Lab, University of Bonn and I work as an independent curator.

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