ST. EUSTATIUS / 21 December 2025 The St. Eustatius Afrikan Burial Ground Needs Your Support! door steustatiusafrikanburialground@gmail.com
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31 August 2025 Jeannette Cooperman’s essay “How the Wreckage of Slavery Washes Upon the Shores of a Small Island” explores how the legacy of slavery persists on the small Caribbean island of St. Eustatius—known locally as Statia—and how confronting this past exposes the enduring wounds of colonialism and historical neglect. Cooperman arrives in
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UTRECHT / 7 October 2025 On Tuesday, October 7, the third and final Faro initiative day will take place at Kanaal30 in Utrecht. Here, 44 new Faro projects will be presented and discussed. This includes our own initiative Power in our Past’s Future: Fellowship in Community Empowerment through Participatory Research of Afrikan Cultural Heritage
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ST. EUSTATIUS / 10 June 2025 This week, the St. Eustatius Afrikan Burial Ground Alliance launched a new cultural heritage project with Dr. Artwell Cain, an Aruban cultural anthropologist. The project “St. Eustatius: Restoring Our Ties” is a continuation of the Alliance’s previous project, “Reclaiming Our Stories: Restoring Our Ties,” which is currently in its
ONLINE / 25 May 2025 With keynote speakers: Dr. Kim Williams-Pulfer, Independent Researcher Philantropic & Caribbean Studies and Associate Prof. Kimani Nehusi, Africologist Temple University. Audio Recordings available at Radio Grani with host Kenneth Donau (broadcasted Monday May 26 at 11:00 am CET). Webinar hosts are Kenneth Cuvalay (St. Eustatius) and Samuel
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AMERSFOORT / 19 May 2025 The purpose of the exchange was a feedback of recent developments and initiatives, and an open dialogue about how you can take these developments into account in your work or in contacts: what does the cultural heritage of the slavery and colonial past mean for you as a person,
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ST. EUSTATIUS / 26 January 2025 On January 26, Kenneth Cuvalay and Derrick Simmons of the St. Eustatius Afrikan Burial Ground Alliance (in short: Alliance), led a delegation of the UNESCO Netherlands Commission around the historical Afrikan burial grounds Golden Rock, Godet, and Congo. Representatives of the Dutch Center of Intangible Cultural Heritage (KIEN) were
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ST. EUSTATIUS / 31 December 2024 Project Remember Statia: Tracing Our Origins PROGRAM March 28 – Introduction Meeting ‘Retaking Our History & Rewriting Our Narrative’ April 2 – 4 – Searching the Archives April 2: Understanding Archival Resources April 3: Searching the Archives April 4: Summarizing & sharing results April 10 &
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ST. EUSTATIUS / 12 December 2024 End the Dutch Kingdom’s double standard in heritage protection for the Caribbean The battle between the preservation of St. Eustatius’ cultural heritage and new infrastructure projects continues, despite the efforts of the heritage inspector who must defend the island’s historic sites on his own. The ongoing infrastructure development
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ST. EUSTATIUS / 23 November 2024 Walk to the Godet, Golden Rock, and Congo Afrikan Burial Ground to lay flowers and put up a light in honor of our Ancestors.
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