Restitution From A Global Perspective Memory, Identity and Politics

List of figures
Preface
List of Contributors

1. Reflections on the current status of restitution of heritage properties in the world: introduction to the global perspective
George Okello Abungu, Webber Ndoro, and Cressida Fford

2. Repatriating African Ancestral Remains: Restoring Justice and the Imperative of Reparations
Rudo Sithole

3. The Expatriation and Restitution Matrix: A Dilemma for the Reacquisition of Heritage by African Countries.
Webber Ndoro and Nonofho Ndobochani

4.Restitution: The Case of South Africa
Rooksana Omar and Shahid Vawda

5. Southern Africa and the Restitution of Cultural Property: Are we there yet?
Plan Shenjere-Nyabezi and Godfrey Mahachi

6. Heritage Appropriation and Restitution: Colonial Violence, Memory, Community Responses and the Politics of Return in Postcolonial Kenya
Sarah S. Kassim, Philip Jimbi Katana and George Okello Abungu

7. The International Return of Vigango to the Mijikenda of Coastal Kenya
Stephen E. Nash, Chip Colwell and Michele L. Koons

8. Politics of Remaking Repatriated Cultural Objects into National Heritage Assets at the Uganda National Museum
Nelson Adebo Abiti

9. Cultural Heritage Restitution to Ethiopia: Historical Precedents and Recent Developments
Alula Pankhurst

10. To Return to One’s Own Country: Digital Reproduction and Repatriation, Nigeria
Terry Little and Ferdinand Saumarez Smith

11. From European Reserves to African Reserves: Exploring the Usefulness of the Repatriated Artifacts
Espéra Donouvossi

12. Positioning Demuseumification as an enabler for the Decolonisation and Transformation of Museums and Heritage Management in South Africa
Sibongile Lynette Masuku and Merna Meyer

13. Displaced, Sold, and Displayed: Working Toward New Practices within African Ancestral Remains Retention in the UK
Iben Rygh Bø

14. “The Conch echo”, Metaphor of a Transoceanic Africa and New Paradigm for Museums
Laurella Rincon

15. Cooperation between South and North Korea in the Repatriation of Ccultural Hheritage
Kim, Byungyun

16. A Late Arrival: Confronting Nordic Colonialism and reconsidering research ethics in the Care of Human Remains in Swedish Museums.
Liv Nilsson Stutz

17. From Restitution to Resilience: Museums, Māori Communities, and the Future of Restitution.
Amber Aranui, Jamie Metzger and Migoto Eria-Rowell

18. Understanding Success: Indigenous concepts and measures of success in repatriation and reconciliation processes, an international survey of literature and initiatives
Steve Hemming, Amy Della-Sale, Daryle Rigney, Cressida Fforde, Michael Pickering, Grant Rigney, Darryl Sumner, Ellen Trevorrow, Luke Trevorrow, Laurie Rankine Jnr., and Douglas Macnicol

19. Repatriation, healing and wellbeing: understanding success for repatriation policy and practice
Steve Hemming, Daryle Rigney, Cressida Fforde, Winsome Adam, Amy Della-Sale, Michael Pickering, Grant Rigney, Darryl Sumner, Ellen Trevorrow, Luke Trevorrow, Laurie Rankine Jnr., and Shaun Berg.

20. ‘Repatriating Repatriation’: Reflections on a career.
Michael Pickering

21. Conclusion:
Webber Ndoro, George Okello Abungu and Cressida Fforde

Index

Biography

George Okello Abungu is Emeritus Director General of the National Museums of Kenya, Founding Professor of Heritage Studies at the University of Mauritius and is currently Honorary Professor of Museums and Heritage Studies at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia.

Webber Ndoro is the Director of the Heritage Centre in the Islamic World at ICESCO, Rabat, Morocco and former Director General of ICCROM. He Founding Executive Director of the African World Heritage Fund  and currently  is Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town. Cape Town, South Africa.

Cressida Fforde is a Professor of Restitution Studies and Head of the Return, Reconcile, Renew Programme at the Centre for Museum and Heritage Studies at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia.