Fabian, Johannes

Johannes Fabian is Professor and Chair of Cultural Anthropology and Non-Western Sociology, University of Amsterdam, and author of "Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object" (1983), "Language and Colonial Power: The Appropriation of Swahili in the Former Belgian Congo" (California, 1991), and many other works. Tshibumba Kanda Matulu worked as a self-taught artist in the mining towns of southeastern Zaire. He thought of himself as a historian and educator of his people; his "History of Zaire" was intended to help them overcome the trauma of colonization. Many of his paintings have b...