África en Sevilla: la exhibición colonial de la Exposición Iberoamericana de 1929

Abstract

In the Exposición Iberoamericana —the Ibero-American Exposition— of Seville in 1929-1930, an interesting colonial exhibition was organized which has been hitherto unstudied. It was arranged in two sections: the Spanish protectorate of Morocco and Spanish Guinea. The present paper describes both colonial pavilions and the products and collections displayed there, and it compares this exhibition to similar contemporary events. We will analyse the two different expository models adopted by the Spanish administration in regard to each colonial territory, models which also included the «exhibition» of Guinean and Moroccan natives. Finally, we will see how the exhibition suggests the limitations of each of these processes of colonization as well as the impossibility of articulating a new model of Hispanic-African imperialism.