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Cultural Restitution
April 4, 2023
TANZANIA
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Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to Tanzania, together with other restitution news.
Entries are updated regularly.
April 2023
East African families are seeking to recover the remains of their ancestors, removed at the beginning of the 20th century and now held in German colonial collections
March 2023
Hermann Parzinger is recommending the return of hundreds of skulls removed by German scientists from Tanzania during the colonial period
More News
Explaining why a looted artefact should be returned to its country or community of origin can sometimes be straightforward. But explaining how is altogether different
Laying Ancestors to Rest pulls no punches. The recommendations made in a new policy brief published by the All Party-Parliamentary Group on Afrikan-Reparations (APPG-AR) include making the sale of human remains illegal and putting an end to the public display of ancestral remains
What will it take to break the British Museum’s determination not to explain when an object is ‘unfit to be retained’?
