In a project launched in 2017, the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin teamed up with scientists from Rwanda to investigate the provenance of around 1,100 skulls from the former colony of German East Africa. The results of this pilot project, which was funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, are now available as a publication. “Human Remains from the Former German Colony of East Africa”, edited by Bernhard Heeb and Charles Mulinda Kabwete, lays the foundations for responsible repatriation of human remains to their countries of origin. Professor Charles Mulinda Kabwete is a historian at the University of Rwanda, while Bernhard Heeb is the curator of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History with responsibility for the anthropological collection.

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