Reports
Open Restitution Africa
We develop reports that document restitution progress across Africa with accuracy and clarity. Each report focuses on presenting reliable data, context, and analysis in a format that is easy to understand and use, ensuring stakeholders have the facts they need to inform their work.
Rethinking Inventories for African-led Restitution
Inventories of collections within African museums and cultural institutions are essential for collections management, preservation, and cultural heritage development. Our focus in this brief is not internal inventories within countries or institutions rather we explore the feasibility of exhaustive external inventories that attempt to catalog all objects from a country that are held abroad. This policy brief responds…
Reclaiming Restitution
The restitution of African heritage – artefacts and human remains – is one of the vital social justice issues of our times. It is about recognising centuries of devastation of the African continent, and taking a step towards social, historical and cultural repair for Africans themselves. Its therefore without question that Africans should be – and have historically…