Cultural Restitution

November 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

New Zimbabwe


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

The Voice



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April 2, 2025
Explaining why a looted artefact should be returned to its country or community of origin can sometimes be straightforward. But explaining how is altogether different
March 28, 2025
A unique shell necklace believed to originate from the Bass Strait islands has been returned by The Hunterian collection to representatives from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) who travelled to Glasgow to carry it home
March 14, 2025
Laying Ancestors to Rest pulls no punches. The recommendations made in a new policy brief published by the All Party-Parliamentary Group on Afrikan-Reparations (APPG-AR) include making the sale of human remains illegal and putting an end to the public display of ancestral remains