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During this time, the South African apartheid administration decided to transform the town according to racial segregation and apartheid urban planning by moving the African population out of their residential area into newly built, racially and ethnically segregated townships which were situated on the town's outskirts. \\n \\nThe exhibition chooses a particular point in the history of colonialism and apartheid and of community building and forced removals. It places at its center stage three private archives of photographic collections assembled over several decades by four women residents of Usakos. These photographs constitute personal albums, subjective narratives and aesthetic interventions in the course of a history that denied them visibility and voice as women, residents, citizens and human beings. Representing the social, cultural and aesthetic variety of life in the 'old location' ('ou lokasie'), the photographs inform the ways in which people relate to them today: with pride and a deep sense of nostalgia and loss. It is this reflection of the past in the present that characterizes Paul Grendon's photographs and which complements the display of the Usakos old location albums. 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What about the African point of view, though? The true African comic? The editors of this catalog present a wide range of African comics: superhero and underground comics as well as comics with propaganda content or an educational focus. \\nComics are more than just a manifestation of pop culture – during the course of the 20th century, they have developed into a socio-politically influential medium worldwide. Comics are now an object of historical research. They transport the history of their time and depict it. 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