WHAT CAN A GROUP OF CITIZENS DO?/ WAS KANN EINE GRUPPE VON BÜRGER INNEN TUN? Eight Nairobi-driven conversations on restitution/ Acht von Nairobi ausgehende gespräche über restitution

415pp., paperback, Iwalewabooks, Johannesburg, Lagos & Frankfurt, 2025

ISBN: 9783947902316

A compilation of the eight Object Movement Dialogues, a series of public discussions held between 2018 and 2021 in Nairobi, Cologne, and finally online during the Covid pandemic. The dialogues form part of the International Inventories Programme, an artistic and curatorial research project that investigates a collection of Kenyan cultural objects held in institutions in the North, and shed light on the question of restitution from the perspectives of art, activism and heritage.

Text in English and German.

Participants of the dialogues: Jim Chuchu, George Gachara, Patrick Gathara, Sam Hopkins, Philip Jimbi Katana, Kiprop Lagat, Peju Layiwola, Charles Leshore, Lydia Nafula, Freda Nkirote M’Mbogori, Njoki Ngumi, JC Niala, Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Rosie Olang’ Odhiambo, Juma Ondeng’, Mzee Tiberious Otieno, Simon Rittmeier, Regina Sarreiter, Bénédicte Savoy, Nanette Snoep, Chao Tayiana Maina, Olivia Windham Stewart.

Art historian Marian Nur Goni is Assistant Professor at the Université Paris 8. She is a founding member of the online journal Troubles dans les collections.