Cambridge University agrees to hand colonial-era African artefacts back to Uganda so the items can 'live again'

 

 Cambridge University has agreed to hand back priceless African artefacts to Uganda.
 According to Mail Online, the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) is in talks with the Uganda Museum about repatriating the objects to the east African nation in 2023.
 Uganda's Commissioner for Monuments and Museums, Rose Mwanja Nkaale, and the Curator, Nelson Abiti, visited the museum last month to discuss which objects should be prioritised for repatriation.
They were joined by Derek Peterson, a professor of History and African Studies at the University of Michigan, who is principal investigator for the Repositioning project.

He said of the project: 'We want to put these objects back into the hands of people who made them meaningful.
 'We want them to live again, not only as museum pieces but as part of Uganda's public culture.
 'These objects have been dislocated both in space and in time.
 'Colonial-era collectors took them out of Ugandans' hands and made them into specimens of ethnic identity.
 'We want to put them back into the hands of the people who made them meaningful, to open up dialogues about the onward course of families, clans, and professions.'