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Cultural Restitution
Nov 14, 2022
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Updated May 2023
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to Zimbabwe, together with other restitution news. Entries are updated regularly.
May 2023
Bring Back Our Bones, a campaigning group that aims to recover the missing remains of heroes of the Zimbabwean uprising in the 1890s, has appealed for the return of Mbuya Nehanda's skull
November 2022
President of Zimbabwe has offered to swap the remains of Cecil Rhodes, who is buried in Zimbabwe, for the skulls of resistance fighters held in UK museums
More News
An official from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church has confirmed the identity of an object held at National Museums Scotland (NMS) as a sacred Ethiopian Tabot
The British Museum has shown itself adept at refusing to provide information to questions they’d prefer not to answer. We hope our initiative to escalate concerns about the Museum’s collection of Ethiopian Tabots to the Information Commissioner’s Office will encourage greater transparency
The emergent gap between Britain’s national and non-state collections is about to get wider, as prospects for a UK nationwide restitution strategy appear as far away as ever
