Citizen Reporter
Citizen Reporter
Mark Fonseca Rendeiro
Decolonizing Museums: The Maasai & Oxford
35 minutes Posted Mar 3, 2020 at 6:47 pm.
Decolonizing Museums: A Masaai Healing Process
Part 1: The First Encounter
Part 2: Do You Have A Plan?
Part 3: Video Messages
Part 4: Partnership
Part 5: A Way Forward
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Almost three years ago Samwel Nangiria paid a visit the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. While there he was presented with objects gathered from his culture around 100 years ago. To his shock the collection included items that should never be in the possession of a museum or out of the hands of specific members of the Maasai community. He would eventually express his feelings to the museum, and what follows has become a fascinating and at times emotional engagement to de-colonize museums and empower the Maasai to tell their own story of who they are as a living culture today.

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