SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois State Museum has returned 37 wooden memorial statues, known as vigango, to the National Museums of Kenya for repatriation to Mijikenda communities. These statues are ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois State Museum have returned nearly 40 sacred artifacts to Kenya so they can go back to their rightful owners. Museum officials said in a statement Wednesday that ...

Nairobi — For the past 40 years, the early man has been immobile at the Nairobi Museum gallery showcasing the Darwinian past. It was inevitable he would inspire evolution, leading to a complete ...

Kenya’s first-ever maritime museum is expected to be operational by the end of the year. The museum, a joint project of the National Museums of Kenya (NMK) and the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), will ...

Repatriating stolen artifacts to their rightful origins has been a complex journey, as the reclamation of these cultural entities had to be rigorously fought for. For Kenya, its memorials, vigango, ...

Curators at the Illinois State Museum say they don’t know exactly how 38 wooden sculptures made their way from Kenya to Springfield. But the leading theory is that the move wasn’t aboveboard. “We ...

Sylvan Mghanga holds the artifact of the oldest wooden helm of a ship while he leans forward to peer inside a gigantic aquarium with pictures of a shipwreck and floating fish. He rolls the helm, a ...

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