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AUTHOR: KWAME OPOKU, DR.

Queen-Mother Idia ,Benin, Nigeria, now in Humboldt Forum ,Berlin, Germany.

Will Germany Really Restitute Looted Benin Artefacts?

Apr 4, 2021 | Feature Article

It has been widely reported that Germany intends to restitute looted Benin artefacts that it acquired from the Briti ...

Mar 14, 2021 | Feature Article

ldquo;The restitution of those cultural objects which our museums and collections, directly or indirectly, posse ...

Feb 8, 2021 | Feature Article

lsquo;And the museums of which M. Caillois is so proud, not for one minute does it cross his mind that, all thin ...

Jan 13, 2021 | Feature Article

lsquo;I cannot accept that a large part of cultural heritage from several African countries is in France. There ...

Dec 31, 2020 | Feature Article

I was moved to silent melancholy at the thought that this assembly of degenerate and feeble-minded posterity sho ...

Dec 18, 2020 | Feature Article

ldquo;The restitution of those cultural objects which our museums and collections, directly or indirectly, posse ...

Dec 2, 2020 | Feature Article

lsquo;By the end of the 1960s, the price of Benin works had soared so high that the Federal Government of Nigeri ...

Nov 16, 2020 | Feature Article

lsquo;One of the noblest incarnations of a people rsquo;s genius is its cultural heritage, built up over ...

Sep 4, 2020 | Feature Article

ldquo;The restitution of those cultural objects which our museums and collections, directly or indirectly, po ...

Jul 30, 2020 | Feature Article

The French government examined on 15 July, a draft law(projet de loi) which would authorize the government to ...

Jul 30, 2020 | Feature Article

The French government examined on 15 July, a draft law(projet de loi) which would authorize the government to ...

Jul 1, 2020 | Feature Article

rsquo;Truth must be repeated constantly, because error is being repeatedly preached round about all the time, an ...

Jun 15, 2020 | Feature Article

ldquo;The trustees of the British Museum have become the world rsquo;s largest receivers of stolen property, and ...

Apr 27, 2020 | Feature Article

lsquo;We, Europeans, who have received and transmitted and continue to transmit these objects, are on the side o ...

Apr 5, 2020 | Feature Article

lsquo; To fall under the spell of an object,to be touched by it,moved emotionally by a piece of art in a museum, ...

Mar 23, 2020 | Feature Article

Although this case is a private matter and must remain so, it has become political and it is only in this regard ...

Mar 7, 2020 | Feature Article

There are probably very few crimes that shock, anger and pain most Africans more than the looting of human remains o ...

Kwame Opoku, Dr.
Kwame Opoku, Dr.

Former Legal Adviser, United Nations Office, Vienna.. More Dr. Kwame Opoku writes about looted cultural objects