A museum
Ghana’s national museum has been reopened after being closed for seven years.
A display in the Museum of Black Civilisations in Dakar, Senegal.
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Museums allow us to delve deep into the past with eye-catching displays of artefacts, ancient textiles, high-quality images and short films that narrate how our ancestors lived.
The Gidan Makama national museum in Kano, Nigeria.
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Nigerian museums continue to present colonised versions of history. This harms local communities.
Robben Island – for centuries a place of banishment, exile, imprisonment and pain.
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Robben Island Museum aspired to be part of the reconstruction and development of the national soul.
A mummy of the Ancient Egyptian Priestess “Tamut” (900 BC) on display at British Museum in London, in 2014.
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The power to select, name and decide the meaning of these items makes Europeans the authors of African history.