So, on April 10, 2026, I made a quick one-day trip to the University of Cambridge to give a Keynote Lecture at the Annual Conference of the Association for Art History. There, I spoke on a subject that anyone who has followed my activities for about a decade now may know: the restitution of many of Africa's significant cultural heritage held in imperial (aka, formerly Universal, but now Global) museums in Europe and the US. I explored how recent gestures of knowledge restitution in a few museums portend the making of what I call the postcolonial, global museum. The audience's applause at the end was, I must say, unusually looooong for an academic event!
