tiekie box project
What we do
The Tiekie Box Project seeks to reclaim and transform the way African Descendant Communities and the Diaspora engage with their Cultural Heritage, by elevating, expanding and empowering the work of global cultural rights activists, preservationists and descendant communities working to protect their heritage.
Research
We find and partner with descendant communities working tirelessly against the direct and indirect threats to protect their marginalised heritage.
Advocate
We consult, liaise and engage with descendant communities with socially innovative tools and meaningful storytelling
Empower
We mobilise global resources and solutions to elevate and expand descendant community impact


About The Tiekie Box Project
Tiekie Box Project partners with descendant communities working tirelessly against direct and indirect threats to protect their marginalised heritage.
We invest in our communities by structuring our services according to the specific needs of the community and its goals for protection, preservation and promotion of the cultural heritage.
We support our communities by supplementing our service to include the advice of consultants and experts in the field of African Cultural Heritage.
As our communities’ holistic engagement with their heritage grows, so do the prospects for the preservation of African cultural heritage around the world.
The Problem
If the history of Africa was written in 100 pages, The Transatlantic Slave Trade would start at page 99.
95% of African Heritage is not on the continent due to the looting and intentional ethnocide carried out during the centuries long enslavement and trade of African people and colonialism.
Peggy King Jorde
"What defines us as human is how we bury our dead. We pray over them, sing, pour libations, and say words to honour them. So for every African Burial Ground saved, I remember that despite the horrors of slavery and the sub-human treatment of my ancestors, the ground is forever marked sacred. Because someone dared to reclaim the humanity of a loved one in a revolutionary act of remembrance."







