With or without Britain, restitution of cultural artefacts is gaining momentum

The question that many observers must be asking themselves these days is when will Britain finally join the movement for restitution and abandon anachronistic and  ...

DOES COLLABORATION BETWEEN NIGERIAN AND EUROPEAN /AMERICAN MUSEUMS BRING US CLOSER TO RESTITUTION OF NIGERIA’S STOLEN/LOOTED ARTS?

As readers may know, many Africans are very suspicious of collaboration with museums and institutions that have  ...

KENYA DEMANDS ONCE AGAIN THE RESTITUTION OF ARTEFACTSAs we have often emphasized in our various articles, no one intends to empty the European museums of all the African objects but there must be a selection of those the European and American  ...

LOVE THE “UNIVERSAL MUSEUM” AND DESPISE THE OTHERS: COMMENT ON ARTICLE BY TRISTRAM HUNT.

When I read the article entitled “How one cultural vision has lessons for the whole world” by Tristram Hunt, in the Observer, July 6, 2008, I really did  ...

DOES THE DEMAND FOR THE RESTITUTION OF STOLEN AFRICAN CULTURAL OBJECTS CONSTITUTE AN OBSTACLE TO THE DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT AFRICAN ARTS? COMMENTS ON A LETTER FROM PHILIPPE DE MONTEBELLO, DIRECTOR, THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW  ...

After the publication of the Article EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN MUSEUM DIRECTORS AND THE LEGALITY CONCEPT by Afrikanet.info Author Dr. Kwame Opoku, Philippe de Montebello, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York replies: 

I read with  ...

IS LEGALITY STILL A VIABLE CONCEPT FOR EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN MUSEUM DIRECTORS?

We are reading almost on a daily basis some comment or reply by a European or an American museum director in defence of the holding of stolen cultural objects or  ...