Restitution, Return, Repatriation and Reparation (the 4Rs) in Africa: Reality or Transcultural Aphasia?

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dc.contributor.authorEyifa-Dzidzienyo, Gertrude Aba Mansah
dc.contributor.authorMichels, Stefanie
dc.contributor.authorAzamede, Kokou
dc.contributor.authorDoll, Martin
dc.contributor.authorZollmann, Martin
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-22T11:49:00Z
dc.date.available2024-04-22T11:49:00Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThe topic of restitution of cultural materials in colonial contexts raises historical, political, and moral questions. This working paper summarizes the research findings of IFG 5 at MIASA, which moved the academic and political debates about restitution to more practical and epistemological levels. L’IFG 5 focused on one evolving restitution case study from the Akpini Traditional Area in Kpando (Ghana) demanding the return of their royal regalia from Germany, and it analysed the field within which the case unfolds. This paper, which is based on field research involving meetings and discussions with representatives from the Akpini Traditional Area, multiplies the voices/narratives of interest groups on local, national and international levels; widens the perspectives on the issues; and interrogates the ongoing limited multi-practices of restitution, return, repatriation and reparation (the 4Rs) in the post-colonial African context. The paper identifies a plethora of interest groups in the restitution case in Kpando with varying agendas. It concludes that the field of “restitution” is characterized by interest groups that do not conform to a simplified dichotomous vision and that their agendas go beyond the mere return of cultural materials.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe research leading to these results has received funding from the Maria Sibylla Merian Centres Programme of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany, under grant no. 01UK2024A, with co-funding from the University of Ghana.en_US
dc.identifier.citationGertrude Aba Mansah Eyifa-Dzidzienyo, Stefanie Michels et al., Restitution, Return, Repatriation and Reparation (The 4Rs) in Africa: Reality or Transcultural Aphasia?, MIASA Working Paper No 2023(2), online: hyperlink.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh:8080/handle/123456789/41646
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMerian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA)en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMIASA Working Paper;2023(2)
dc.subjectAkpinien_US
dc.subjectGermanyen_US
dc.subjectGhanaen_US
dc.subjectrestitutionen_US
dc.subjectcultural materialsen_US
dc.titleRestitution, Return, Repatriation and Reparation (the 4Rs) in Africa: Reality or Transcultural Aphasia?en_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US

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