Denver Cooperates with Kenyan Sister City to Return Long-Lost Artifacts

Title: Denver Cooperates with Kenyan Sister City to Return Long-Lost Artifacts
Author: Miranda Bannister
Media Outlet: IERL Blog
Publish Date: Sept. 6, 2019

“On July 3, 2019, a collection of Kenyan vigango that resided for decades at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science reached its final stop in a long journey home. The process of returning the vigango to their original Mijikendan community began in 2008 when the Denver museum contacted the Kenyan government, suspecting the collection’s questionable provenance. In doing so, the Denver museum joined the ranks of several American institutions that are going beyond what is demanded of them by international guidelines, state, and federal laws to handle their existing collections ethically.”