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Hindered by exposing themselves to owning these objects

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Governments in Africa focusing on retrieving items from abroad to aid political campaigns and encourage national identity, healing and looking ahead to the future

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Visiting museums and seeing cultural history being sanitized and whitewashed

Minority communities have little power over this and so feel disengaged from the museum

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Wealthy collectors wanting to show off their spoils from their travels

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The aim of this project is to research objects provenance to confirm whether or not it could be up for return to Africa.

Reasons for return could be it was:

Looted
Spoils from War
Gifted under circumstances where community felt threatened
The country asks for its return
A family member finds links to the object and wants it returned
It was purchased by the museum for a lot less than it was worth at the time

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African communities educating the museum allowing the museum to educate visitors more effectively

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Objects provide good educational tools, but why not create replicas to fulfill educational role so the real thing could be returned

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Getting power over the narrative

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Working with local communities help combat stereotypes, learn skills and educate museums on how their culture should be interpreted

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Arts Council England
Heritage Lottery Fund
National Lottery
People's Post Code Lottery
DCMS

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Encouraging funding, facilities, infrastructure and expanding cultural institutions in the North of England as an important factor for wealth distribution

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Decision making hierarchy: National Curriculum

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Interpretation of objects, exhibitions they're featured in. How they were collected, where they came from and where they have been

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Red: Institutional/ Museum Sector
Green: Educational
Blue: Social
Orange: Economic
White: Personal
Purple: Political

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Connections with community groups and how they're connected with the City, the past and the present

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National and International dialog on race and colonialism 

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National and International dialog on race and colonialism 

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Black Lives Matter protests, 2019
Rethinking British people's role in race and racial inequalities

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Education/ Discussion on Deaccession and role colonialism played in UK

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Education/ Discussion on Deaccession and role colonialism played in UK

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Recent political and social events leading to a broadening of discussion and re-education on the effects of colonialism on UK and African Communities

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Education of Local School children on the topic of deaccession

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Education of Local School children on the topic of deaccession

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Open Society Foundation Oxford University and Arts Fund 

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Open Society Foundation Oxford University and Arts Fund 

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Devolving Restitution: African Collection in the UK beyond London

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Devolving Restitution: African Collection in the UK beyond London

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World Cultures Collection: African Collection 

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World Cultures Collection: African Collection 

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Looked after by Curators: including Adam Jaffer, placement supervisor and the center of my group project

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Funded by tax payers- direct connection and involvement with the local community

head of the decision making processes

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Ran and funded by LEEDS CITY COUNCIL
part of the local government hierarchy

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Institution for Education and Academia

Also has room for improvement on/ should be further involved in the debate of decolonialism and its role and foundation during a time of colonialism

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Their Values:
Exists to collect, preserve and interpret historic, scientific and cultural collections and historic sites and use them as inspiration for educating, entertaining and informing the people of Leeds as well as visitors to the city.

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Conservation, Preservation of objects
Education myself on deaccession and decolonization
Work with organisations who take social moral responsibility