Author Lies Busselen introduces new reflections on over twenty conversations with Congolese academia, politicians and museum professionals.
Based on participatory research, it proposes tools towards informed and supported decision-making and equal-to-equal dialogue to face future challenges of repair.
The absence of collective social memories concerning the removal of ancestral remains makes space for differing ways to give meaning to the past in the present and evokes multiple possibilities, ranging from mausoleums to ritual commemoration ceremonies, statues and new museums.
The question should not be to restitute or not to restitute but how to grow into relations of coevalness.
