Making African Heritage Accessible to All
The Tiekie Box Project seeks to reclaim and transform the way African Descendant Communities and the Diaspora engage with their Cultural Heritage, by elevating, expanding and empowering the work of global cultural rights activists, preservationists and descendant communities working to protect their heritage.
We find and partner with descendant communities working tirelessly against the direct and indirect threats to protect their marginalised heritage.
We consult, liaise and engage with descendant communities with socially innovative tools and meaningful storytelling
We mobilise global resources and solutions to elevate and expand descendant community impact
Tiekie Box Project partners with descendant communities working tirelessly against direct and indirect threats to protect their marginalised heritage. We invest in our communities by structuring our services according to the specific needs of the community and its goals for protection, preservation and promotion of the cultural heritage. We support our communities by supplementing our service to include the advice of consultants and experts in the field of African Cultural Heritage. As our communities’ holistic engagement with their heritage grows, so do the prospects for the preservation of African cultural heritage around the world. Learn more about our mission at .
If the history of Africa was written in 100 pages, The Transatlantic Slave Trade would start at page 99.
95% of African Heritage is not on the continent due to the looting and intentional ethnocide carried out during the centuries long enslavement and trade of African people and colonialism.
The AU seeks justice, not guilt, in reparations for historical injustices towards Africa and its descendants By Annina van Neel The African Union declared 2025 the Year of Reparations, aiming to achieve justice through reparations for Africans and their descendants,
