Katrine Vigne
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Katrine Hoandi Vigne is a Namibian-Danish heritage practitioner. In 2018, she undertook a Master of Arts in Sustainable Heritage Management at the Aarhus University in Denmark. The focus of her dissertation, “Restitution of a whip and Bible – A postcolonial story of museum restitution”, was the contentious return of Hendrik Witbooi’s Whip and Bible to Namibia. As part of her Masters programme she took up a year long internship at the Museums Association of Namibia. At the time, 23 cultural belongings were being returned to Namibia, as part of a five year long restitution project called Confronting Colonial Pasts, Envision Creative Futures. She is in community with the close knit network of Namibian arts, culture and heritage practitioners who drove the dialogues, and implemented the experiments and outputs of this project.