Open Society Foundations | Restitution of African Cultural Heritage | Heritage is Humanity

In 2023, We were commissioned in putting together this material from @opensocietyfoundations Global convening of Restitution of African Heritage - Heritage is humanity. This cause, restitution of African artifacts is only realized when we all accept that heritage indeed is humanity. What africa lost is memory which created cultural gaps.Having no clue of what we were before in its entirety and having our histories begin from slavery. Colonialism ripped us from knowing the Africa before colonialism, where these artifacts were symbols of our culture, hence mitigating Africa’s civilization on the parallels of growth and evolution.

The return of the objects cant fully restore what has been lost but it is a good start to repair culture and grant more access to the future yet to come. Thank you to @veronikachatsss and @ibrahimaaniang for such a splendid convening and to the entire team at OpenSociety Foundations and all stakeholders involved