Cultural Restitution
November 14, 2022
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Updated April 2026
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to Zimbabwe, together with other restitution news. Entries are updated regularly.
April 2026
The return of the sacred Zimbabwe Bird and ancestral human remains by South African authorities marks the latest victory in Zimbabwe's push to recover its cultural inheritance
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
Campaigners for ending the public display and sale of human remains will be encouraged by this month’s news from the DCMS that it plans to review its Guidance for the Care of Human Remains in Museums
After assuming the UK’s highest office, another British prime minister has changed his mind about returning the Parthenon Marbles to Greece. Was this predictable?
The USA is being urged not to renew a five-year cultural property agreement with the Arab Republic of Egypt, on the grounds Egypt has prioritised ‘prestige megaprojects’ and ‘political spectacle’ over site protection and collections management