Should European museums, art dealers and private collectors return the artifacts stolen from Africa during its colonisation? This is the question that springs up in social media from time to time with never much resolution.
Do you know where some of the art in your museum comes from and how it came to be displayed there? Here is a brief story about the punitive expedition of Benin in 1897.
"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots." - MARCUS GARVEY
00:00 Introduction
02.33 African artefect examples
03:57 The story of the 1897 Punitive Expedition of Benin
09:50 How the stolen artefacts were distributed
10:20 Why we should return the stolen artefacts
16:20 Alternative solutions to returning the stolen artefacts
17:40 Conclusion
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