From Elmina Castle to the beach resorts, from Nana Kofi Anthony, remembered as the first chief fisherman, to the Middle Passage and colonial rule, water has always witnessed the making and unmaking of this town, Elmina. With this mural we honor the water. Painted on the Cornelis Nagtglas House, a building tied to the Dutch colonial governor and his Euro-African partner Anna Abraba Smith, this mural turns colonial memory into a site of reckoning.

The performers and artists of the Museum of Black Futures honour the lives of the Afro-German children who, in the early twentieth century, became targets of racist propaganda in the Rhineland, just across the Dutch border. Their innocent existence was twisted into an image of fear. Their presence was weaponised by nationalist forces to stir up hatred. What followed was exclusion, violence and persecution. But on this night horror becomes a symbol of resilience, inspiration a