This paper looks at empirical meanings of solidarity in museum practices based on an auto-ethnographic account of my curatorial experiences in the Global South and Global North. Museums in Africa as part of the global south were established during the colonial period and are grappling with problematic representations of cultures of the ‘other’ that are still exhibited as static, lifeless, and timeless way after political independence. It is against this background that I will draw on my positionality as a Curator of Archaeology at Mutare Museum in Zimbabwe between 2009 – 2021 to show how we deployed participatory democracies with originating communities in co- developing new meanings on a collection of living cultures looted without adequate biographical information at the height of colonisation. The subsequent collaborative research resulted in the co-curation of an exhibition called “Traditional Aspects of the Eastern Shona” in 2016 at Mutare museum which I will critically examine in view of what decolonised community solidarities mean in an African context. Ultimately, the chapter will attempt to juxtapose different kinds of museum solidarity work by looking at the African collections provenance research that I have been undertaking since my appointment as Curator of Living Cultures at Manchester Museum which is part of the University of Manchester in 2021.