CSIS Annual Lecture: Restitution and the Teaching of African History
5:00pm - 7:30pm /
Tuesday 18th February 2025
Type: Lecture /
Category: Research
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- Dr Mary E Booth
- Admission: free
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Join the CSIS Annual Lecture on 18th February 2025 at The Athenaeum.
Discussions around restitution of objects from Western museums to their places of creation are widespread. But in spite of much discussion, little has changed on the ground for many institutions on the continent, from Dakar to Benin City.
Much of the discussion around restitution focusses on historical justice and the concerns raised by some Western institutions. This lecture takes a different approach, and looks towards the future: how would a mass programme of restitution of these objects change the dynamic of teaching and researching the history of Africa, and what difference would this make to questions of global inequity?
Host: Miles Greenwood, National Museums Liverpool
Speaker: Toby Green, Fellow of the British Academy, and Professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture at King’s College, London
Bio: Toby Green has worked widely with colleagues across Africa, organising events in collaboration with institutions in Angola, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique Sierra Leone and the Gambia. His books have been translated into 12 languages and include the award-winning A Fistful of Shells. He writes extensively for the media, including in recent years London Review of Books, New Statesman, Prospect, and UnHerd. He has worked on curriculum change in the teaching of African history both in the UK and in West Africa, and has been a member of the UK government’s Model History Curriculum Advisory Group. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and Professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture at King’s College, London.
Discussions around restitution of objects from Western museums to their places of creation are widespread. But in spite of much discussion, little has changed on the ground for many institutions on the continent, from Dakar to Benin City.
Much of the discussion around restitution focusses on historical justice and the concerns raised by some Western institutions. This lecture takes a different approach, and looks towards the future: how would a mass programme of restitution of these objects change the dynamic of teaching and researching the history of Africa, and what difference would this make to questions of global inequity?
Host: Miles Greenwood, National Museums Liverpool
Speaker: Toby Green, Fellow of the British Academy, and Professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture at King’s College, London
Bio: Toby Green has worked widely with colleagues across Africa, organising events in collaboration with institutions in Angola, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique Sierra Leone and the Gambia. His books have been translated into 12 languages and include the award-winning A Fistful of Shells. He writes extensively for the media, including in recent years London Review of Books, New Statesman, Prospect, and UnHerd. He has worked on curriculum change in the teaching of African history both in the UK and in West Africa, and has been a member of the UK government’s Model History Curriculum Advisory Group. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and Professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture at King’s College, London.