Global Context • 1919 • IV
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) joins the German Worker's Party and soon becomes one of its leaders. The party evolves into the National Socialist German Worker's Party (abbreviated to Nazis) and adopts the swastika as its emblem. The first Pan-African Congress, organised by WEB du Bois (1868–1963), opens in Paris with fifty-seven delegates from sixteen countries and colonies.
An entry from the timeline included in the exhibition Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance (2009–2010) at the Iziko National Gallery, which proposed connections between art production in South Africa and abroad against the social and political contexts that framed them. A revised version of this timeline was later featured in the retroactive Flight Paths (2011) exhibition guide commissioned by Clare Butcher.