2024/03/19 by Kafarhire, Toussaint Murhula
paper · doi:10.57832/m82x-v749
From October 24 to 28, 2023, the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) met in Lubumbashi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, to celebrate its 10th anniversary. During this 5th Biennial conference organized around the theme of “Repatriating Africa: Ancient challenges, critical insights,” scholars, activists, and policymakers were encouraged to shift their epistemological vantage, widen the scope of reflection on African matters, and develop a new thinking about cultural justice in the long history of Western colonial plunder of both tangible and intangible valuables from Africa. The conference’s main theme was then articulated around four axes that included restoration, reparation, repatriation, and restitution.