Based on extensive archival research in Germany and fieldwork across Cameroon, the study addresses key contemporary questions related to:
- Colonial collections and provenance research
- Museum narratives and representation
- Sacred objects and cultural memory
- Restitution and heritage rehabilitation
- Decolonisation of museums and knowledge systems
- Cultural resilience and identity reconstruction
One of the central contributions of this research is the development of the concept of “absence” as a way to understand the material, symbolic, and existential consequences of displaced cultural heritage, but also the notion of Demusealisation of the sacred.
