What does restitution mean in Francophone postcolony ? Reflections from Senegal
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The debate about restitution calls into question the Western production of cultural and historical knowledge about African societies. This paper provides an analysis of how this debate in Senegal is entangled with the ongoing French and European presence in social, institutional, economic, political and academic spaces, and the consequences in relation to local interests for restitution. It primarily focuses on stakeholders’ ideas about restitution rather than on the artefacts per se. For the return of artefacts mirrors the circulation of ideas, discourses and specific actors between Africa and Europe. Therefore, this paper calls for a broader reflection on how the decolonization movement inspiring restitution highlights mechanisms related to postcolonial entanglements: : what does restitution mean in postcolony (Mbembe, 2000)?
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