These partnerships are necessary because many of the artifacts and royal regalia that were taken by the colonial masters were taken at the time when African countries did not have the present-day nation-state.
“We have a shared responsibility, so the partnership here must be based on mutual trust and respect, it should not be a matter of collaboration but partnership where we all plan and execute together.”
For Gavua the restitution process is not an event but a process that involves negotiations between various stakeholders at the national level, activists, civil society organisations, stakeholders, and communities from where the items were taking from.
And at the community level not only the chiefs but also the rest of the people and the priests should be regarded.
