Oxford University restores Maasai artefacts
Title: Oxford University restores Maasai artefacts
Media Outlet: The Economist
Publish Date: Feb. 13, 2020
“Her attitude to this unusual method of establishing provenance has not yet been divined. But Mrs van Broekhoven says that the way knowledge systems are judged needs to be liberated. “Real decoloniality is to see each other’s knowledge systems as equal.” British colonial catalogues, she points out, are not models of accuracy. “All we have are labels with question-marks. It would be quite disingenuous to say, ‘Your knowledge system is inferior to ours’.”