‘History longs to heal’: how Africa hopes to advance campaign for reparative justice

At festival in Kenya, artists and writers discuss role arts can play in continent’s growing push for redress over colonial crimes • More than money: the logic of slavery reparations One afternoon last October, at a hotel in a forest in a Nairobi suburb, a few dozen people sat quietly in a room watching the 2020 documentary If Objects Could Speak, which explores restitution by tracing the roots of a Kenyan artefact stored in a German museum. The people were at the two-day Wakati Wetu (“Our Tim...

By Carlos Mureithi in Nairobi and Eromo Egbejule in Accra