CAN NATIONALISM BE SOLD AS INTERNATIONALISM VIA THE BRITISH MUSEUM? SANCTIFICATION OF BRITISH SPOLIATIONS AND LOOT 

The choice of a personality as “Briton of the year” is clearly a matter for British nationalists and a non-Briton has no  ...

Guy Tillim : Architektur der kolonialen und postkolonialen Gesellschaft Afrikas

(premiumpresse), 18.12.2008 17:56 - Der südafrikansiche Fotograf Guy Tillim setzt sich in seiner neuesten Bilderserie "Avenue Patrice Lumumba" mit der urbanen  ...

FORMAL DEMAND FOR THE RETURN OF BENIN BRONZES: WILL WESTERN MUSEUMS NOW RETURN SOME OF THE LOOTED/STOLEN BENIN ARTEFACTS? 

“The restitution of those cultural objects which our museums and collections, directly or indirectly, possess thanks to  ...

Ethiopian President shows the Way in Demand for Restitution of African Artefacts

According to a report in The Independent of 23 November, 2008, the Ethiopian President, Girma Wolde-Giorgis, has requested British museums holding stolen/looted  ...

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  ...