Cultural Restitution
April 4, 2023
TANZANIA
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TANZANIA
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to Tanzania, together with other restitution news.
Entries are updated regularly.
October 2025
A former Tanzanian MP and environmental activist is demanding the repatriation of the Tendeguru fossils removed by German colonial explorers in the 19th century
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
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This week’s announcement that Cambridge University has transferred legal ownership of its collection of 116 Benin artefacts to Nigeria could be hugely significant
Britain’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport has confirmed it will review the exclusion it imposed on national collections that prevents them from returning cultural objects on moral grounds
Six Native American skulls, acquired to advance the pseudoscience of phrenology, have been returned by the University of Edinburgh to the Muscogee Nation, a self-governed Native American Tribal Nation