Making African Heritage Accessible to All

Contacts

92 Bowery St., NY 10013

thepascal@mail.com

+1 800 123 456 789

What we do

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.

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Research

We find and partner with descendant communities working tirelessly against the direct and indirect threats to protect their marginalised heritage.

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Advocate

We consult, liaise and engage with descendant communities with socially innovative tools and meaningful storytelling

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Empower

We mobilise global resources and solutions to elevate and expand descendant community impact

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About The Tiekie Box Project

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.

Impact and Projects

Saint Helena Island
St Helena Island in the South Atlantic Ocean is host to an incredible, unrecognised cultural heritage site.
These unmarked and neglected burial grounds are considered to be the most significant physical remaining trace of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on earth.
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Eustatius
The Dutch Caribbean Island of St Eustatius played an important role in the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.
The island is home to many places and references to slavery and enslaved people. But at the same time, this history is not always visible and tangible.
Swakopmund Namibia
The Herero and Nama massacres took place in the territory of what is now Namibia, between 1904 and 1908, in the context of rebellion against the german colonial rule. Today the Genocide Graves are found in the small coastal town surrounded by desert.
Bathwa Burial Grounds
The BaThwa in South Africa utilised hill and mountain tops as eternal resting places. The summit of Ntabamnyama Mountain was a battlefield and burial ground for the Anglo-Boer War and today these graves remain unacceptable, haunting their community.

The Problem

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.

Scherto R. Gill and Garrett Thomson.

“The harmful effects of these events have continued today as unhealed trauma, transmitted from one generation to the next, sustained through structural dehumanization. This trauma has had significant impact not only on Africans and the African diasporas, but also on peoples of European descent and on interpersonal and intercommunal dynamics in contemporary western societies.”

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Help protect African Heritage

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