When the French president of Emmanuel Macron asked to restore African artifacts in 2017, his statement was seen in the international media. These reports could not recognize the decades of the Africans themselves to capture and analyze information about the heritage during the European colonialism during the continent.
“Language and reports were also not reflected in many African countries for decades and two, two, which require that [lot of] Hard work is progressing, “Chao Tayiana Mena, historian Historian Heritage, is open to the digital heritage and African African (ORA), Art diary. It highlights the tendency to lift the western narratives. “If France wants to give 50,000 objects,” he said, “it is located as a remarkable thing, basically when many injustice is happening.”
Mains and Molemo Moiloa created Molemo Moilo and strategic cultural strategies in 2020. The platform has three years of research, mostly local land, cases, analysis and resource library: Efforts to fix things caught from the continent, and now they are located around the world.
The main need for Africans is to share information to each other
A group of researchers from women who directs MENA and MOIO, cultural practitioners, historians, wisers, museum professionals, artists, makers and communities do it through Africa.
It would be difficult to know that the MAIN, the main reason for the project, was to know “the right people”. It would be presented to a third person and sharing knowledge and knowledge. Information is often not documented, so the researchers ORA had to be based on oral history.
“I think it was very amazing: not just that information wasn’t just,” it adds. “So I think the stretches have been the opportunity and challenge for the project. And we have given much more time to build the enriches we build platform.”
In addition, the team better understood how to understand “multi-facades” reset requests. For example, the demand for the Western Cameroon’s Bamendou community was not to return to the Bamendou Tukah mask, “as a material representation of traditional power,” in 1957 was taken in violent conditions of the Bamendou Palace in 1957. Their request was physical access to the artifact, in Paris, the Musée, Jacques Chirac, which could be released in the original spirit, and transferred to Hervé YouTor Cameroon sculptors in 2019.
The Kenyan Mijikenda teams want to return to their things to be buried in the sacred forest, and do not put them in museums. These cases “return is not a clean cut, copy and paste the process. It is complex, rewarding, but it is very essential to hear what people ask,” says Mains. “Main says.” Communities have articulated themselves and their needs in different ways. And when we hear them, it is the wider spectrum of needs and interests, “he added the moose.
Data categories
The data collected from these dialogues and research is analyzed and located in contact, negotiation and African account categories: contact, starting the process of innovation; In his name, artifacts are negotiating; Specific request is being made; The account of what the object is returned when they return; navigating challenges; Infrastructure is required; and working with schools on objects and restoration of children’s oriented programs.
The building category helps to develop the views of these buildings. Of these, it is often explained that they need to find “chement”.
“The main need is that Africans can share information from each other,” the moilo said in the initiative of OR. “It really allows people to share tactics, grow strategies and develop better practices to negotiate recovery processes from an African perspective.” They will help African countries, because they may not be refundable policy, formulating the information available on the platform, says Main. It will also be a way to create citizen awareness, talking about questions about the “why renewing” important ” [and] How in history [these] Objects left our countries “. In addition, the platform will supply” people, organizations, communities and countries with equipment with equipment at various levels ” [including information, videos, contacts and policies] In Africa, on the other hand, to work and understand “.
ORA “Information about African things and the renovation of human ancestors has been about aggression and dissemination,” in 2020. Mena and Moiloa met a year earlier, the materials shared in African museum talks and the renewal of African artifacts was not online.
In 2023 ORA published an online data analysis, mainly from academic sources.
“And so we were asking ourselves:” How did we become information to become a tool for justice? It remembers “” information about the work of reporting ORA, specifically about African artefacts and the use of information and data to help establish policies. “And restoration is a process that seeks a solution for colonial damage and to remove artifacts, it is important to document processes because there are also many processes [and] Many people take part. “
The processes that are missing in the crash data are part of the work of ORA
Photo: Amit Ramrakha; Open courtesy Reset Africa
This year later, Ora will launch the second stage of the platform to users to “heal [their] Understanding the protection. “A user will be able to sort data, such as returning and translating objects from a particular country or return. Workshops and lectures will be made to activate the platform.
Main expects users to understand and adopt a wider historical and adoption of the history of objects and the African initiatives “better in terms of our histories [and] How they come in. “
