In this Masterclass, Esther Stanford Xosei, Ramerii Moukam and Connie Bell classify the unseen narratives buried in museums and "their" artefacts as duppies (ghosts); confronting uncomfortable conversations that examine and draw on the retentions from the African artefacts stored at Museum of London, Docklands.

The session aims to encourage practice and dialogue with our culture, engaging the psychological challenges towards repair and exploring actions that support positive nation-building.

The University of Repair (UoR) project is an initiative arising out of almost a decade of experience of working with reparative histories as part of the applied research and outreach work at Decolonising The Archive. The UoR is a modular, open-ended series of interventions, with the broad aim of initiating (or continuing) a process of repair for people of African heritage living in the UK.

The London, Sugar & Slavery gallery at the Museum of London has been selected as a potential site for this year-long phase of the UoR project due to the clear resonance of the history of the site. Further, the historical, and contemporary inequities of museum practice (in general) make the museum an important site of reparative action.