Dr. Mikaél Assilkinga is an associate researcher and works as a project researcher (DZK) at the Linden-Museum in Stuttgart. His research interest is in power objects from Cameroon in German museums with a focus on the consequential effect of their translocation in the Cameroonian societies of origin and in Germany. He also deals with the provenance of Cameroonian so-called human remains from the colonial context. He received his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin and worked from 2021-2024 as a research assistant on the project Reversed History of Collections: Cameroon’s Cultural Heritage in German Museums. He was also selected to participate in the Sensitive Provenance Research Fellowship at the University of Göttingen in 2022/23.
Des « objets de pouvoir » au Cameroun, dépouillés de leur pouvoir en Allemagne ; Misjudged, Missing, Coveted. Objects of Power from Cameroon in Germany