Paul Basu is a professor in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography and a curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. In his work, he draws upon a wide range of ethnographic, historical and participatory methods to explore how pasts are differently materialized and mediated in the present, and how they shape futures. His research has often involved re-engagements with colonial archives and collections relating to West Africa, exploring their ambiguous status as both sites of epistemic violence and, potentially, resources for communities to recover cultural histories, memories and alternative ways of knowing and being in the world. A trained filmmaker, he continues to use audio-visual as well as other multimodal and exhibition-based approaches in his research.