Restitution
Africa Forum

Your trusted partner in the advocacy and research for the restitution of Africa’s cultural heritage and invaluable treasures.

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Our journey toward the restitution of Africa

Founded by passionate advocates, Restitution Africa Forum strives to address historical injustices while fostering scholarly dialogue and community engagement in cultural heritage.

RAF is dedicated to the processes of repatriating and conserving African cultural heritage, knowledge production, information exchange, healing, and building constructive relationships amongst Africans across the world and between Africans and their neighbours.

Our Approach?

Our commitment to restoring cultural identity sets us apart, making us the preferred choice for research and advocacy in repatriation and restitution efforts.

People-centered Research

Our research initiatives provide a solid foundation for gathering information to generate insights into Africa’s past in a cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary context. We apply multidisciplinary research methods and techniques and engage community members as active partners in research. We tap into local/ endogenous knowledge to generate insight into Africa’s past and present to inform positive future imaginaries.

Collaborative Advocacy

We bring together communities, scholars, media, organizations and other stakeholders to work together synergistically to ensure that cultural materials and other heritage assets Africans have been deprived of under colonial contexts are returned to their rightful places.

Community Empowerment

We promote local community knowledge production and information dissemination to foster local ownership of and pride in their culture and heritage. This is to foster local community ownership of and pride in their culture and heritage assets.

Join us in Restoring Africa’s dignity

Engage with us to ensure the return of Africa’s treasures and the continent’s restitution.

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Our Impact

Through workshops and community engagements at local, regional, national and international levels, We have brought together scholars, practitioners, the media and other stakeholders to brainstorm Africa’s heritage and restitution processes.

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Get involved in restituting Africa’s heritage assets.

Join our mission to reclaim Africa’s cultural legacy.

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