Making African Heritage Accessible to All
Descendant communities understand and feel connected to their heritage; The relationship between community and heritage is valued and deemed legitimate; Restitution of African Heritage involves the descendant community.
Swakopmund
Durban
Zanzibar
St Helana
St Eustatius
New York
Albany
Sheffield
St Helena Island in the South Atlantic Ocean is the United Kingdom’s second largest Overseas Territory and is host to an incredible, unrecognised cultural heritage site. Between 1840 and 1872, more than 25,000 enslaved Africans were offloaded from ships to St Helena...
The Dutch Caribbean Island of St Eustatius played an important role in the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. Especially in the eighteenth century due to the status of St. Eustatius as a 'free port' where no duties and taxes were levied. During this period , the island was...
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. 70% of the Herero and 50% of the Nama ethnicities (75,000 people in total) died in combat and as a...
Indigenous communities worldwide, such as the BaThwa of Ntabamnyama in South Africa, BaThwa of Rwanda, Mapuche of Chile, Haratin of Mauritania, and Degar Montagnards of Vietnam, persist as targets of injustice. Despite states agreeing to the Declaration following the...
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...