99 Questions with Njoki Ngumi and Jim Chuchu from the Nest Collective

In our second episode, we are joined by Njoki Ngumi and Jim Chuchu from the Nairobi-based collective The Nest. We talk about the politics of object restitution and provenance research as a means of distraction.The conversation also looks critically at the attempts of European museums to distract and legitimize, as well as at how the restitution of African objects can queer our past and present.

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The 99 Questions Podcast series provides conversations with interchanging hosts and a variety of guests on the subject of museums and their connections to colonialism, approaches to hosting relations within museums and processes of world-making. Responding to questions raised throughout the 99 Questions programme, each series contains 5 episodes dedicated to a subject and shares insights of speakers, including artists, activists and academics, and their experiences, knowledge and perspective on museum practices in postcolonial societies.