Transformative Heritage: customary governance, community building and digital restitution in contemporary Northeast Congo Ghent University
The project’s beating heart is the transformative potential of material heritage from Northeast Congo, valorising it firstly as a source for advancing scholarly understanding of customary authority in local governance today, and secondly, as a resource for education and community building in a politically fragile region. These goals are intertwined : locals view the loss of ritual objects due to colonial collecting and warfare, and chiefs’ ...