AFRIMUHERE’s Diaspora Partners and Friends Hubs targets museums, NGOs, heritage, history & cultural associations to support AFRIMUHERE’s restitution work. They will facilitate AFRIMUHERE’s access to human, technical, and financial resources and exchanges to mutually benefit African diaspora to make restitutions a driver of the pan-African heritage renaissance on the continent.

AFRIMUHERE Diaspora / Friends Hubs are located in countries with significant African collections outside the continent where people are interested in returning cultural property, human remains, and natural resource material to rightful owners or descendant stakeholders.

AFRIMUHERE Diaspora / Friends Hubs manage membership and partner participation in AFRIMUHERE events, actions to affect policy on restitution, enable partnerships to promote the decolonization, restitution and return of African heritage to African communities.

Partner Organizations for AFRIMUHERE’S Diaspora / Friends Hubs include:

UK : AFFORD (African Foundation for Development)

https://afford-uk.org/

Contact : Onyekachi Wambu, Return the Icons Programme

London, UK

Germany : Berlin-Postkolonial

Contact : Christian Kopp

Berlin, Germany

buero@berlin-postkolonial.de

https://eineweltstadt.berlin/mitglieder/berlin-postkolonial-ev/

Decolonize Berlin

Berlin, Germany

Contact :

https://decolonize-berlin.de/en/

https://www.dekoloniale.de/de

United States : Smithsonian

Association of African American Museums (AAAM)

https://www.naamnw.org/mission

Secretary Lonnie Bunch III, Smithsonian

https://ncp.si.edu/sites/default/files/files/Ethical%20Return%20Docs/shared-stewardship-ethical-returns-policy_4.29.2022.pdf

(April 2022)

Australia : Return, Reconcile, Renew (Indigenous Repatriation Programme)

Australian National University – Canberra

Contact: Professor Cressida Fforde

Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at The Australian National University

cressida.fforde@anu.edu.au