Seven years on from Emmanuel Macron’s pledge to return Africa’s heritage, frustration grows about the lack of progress and a crucial colonial bill has stalled: Germany Hands Over Looted Artefacts To Namibia, But On loan (Channels Television…
A blog about the return to the 'source country' of cultural property removed before the implementation of the 1970 UNESCO Convention, treated separately from the issue of ongoing looting and theft. Seven years on from Emmanuel Macron’s pled…
A blog about the return to the 'source country' of cultural property removed before the implementation of the 1970 UNESCO Convention, treated separately from the issue of ongoing looting and theft. Seven years on from Emmanuel Macron’s pled…
A blog about the return to the 'source country' of cultural property removed before the implementation of the 1970 UNESCO Convention, treated separately from the issue of ongoing looting and theft. Germany and Nigeria have signed an agreeme…
http://www.modernghana.com/news/431618/1/has-mexico-renounced-her-claim-to-montezumas-feath.htmlPlease look at my latest article on the subject matter in modernghana.com The Aztecs conquered lots of other Mexican cultures at the time, and w…
If only we could recover some of the lost artefacts,we would be grateful. But there are cultivated persons in the Western world who argue that our looted artefacts should stay in the West. They do not consider that as Africans we are entitl…
A self-satisfied and largely hegemonic belief survives in Britain that the empire was an imaginative, civilising enterprise, reluctantly undertaken, that brought the benefits of modern society to backward peoples. Indeed it is often suggest…
This queen owes her immortality to a gifted artist. The bust he fashioned out of gypsum and limestone some 3,350 years ago became an eternal monument to her beauty. As realistic as the image is, it has the radiance of a goddess. "It's no us…
At Napoleon's defeat, cooler heads prevailed: Wellington insisted on returning stolen artworks to their original owners, and, in the American Civil War, the Union Army adopted an official policy of leaving art alone, putting museums and lib…