AUTHOR: KWAME OPOKU, DR.

Never has the absence of coordination of African positions on museum matters been so clearly observed as in recent month ...

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

lsquo;As for the ownership status of the works, who does not know that Benin is the true owner despite the seman ...

A leading German professor of African History at the University of Hamburg, Prof. J uuml;rgen Zimmerer, has declared ...

One of the remarkable facts about Western museums is their endemic hostile reaction at anyone who dares to raise the ...

lsquo; rsquo;Cultural heritage constitutes an inalienable part of a people 39;s sense of self and of com ...

lsquo; rsquo;African art, like any great art, some would say, in any case more than any other, and for a long ti ...

We publish below a statement issued recently by participants in a workshop at Legon, Ghana, on looted African cultur ...

I ask for Oluyenyetuye bronze of Ife The moon says it is in Bonn I ask for Ogidigbonyingbonyin mask ...

I ask for Oluyenyetuye bronze of Ife The moon says it is in Bonn I ask for Ogidigbonyingbonyin mask ...

Where does the museum stand in relation to colonisation? The principle of colonisation as a system of gover ...

ldquo; hellip;I cannot accept that a large part of cultural heritage of several African countries is in France. Ther ...

lsquo; rsquo;Luschan also asked a Lieutenant Ralf Z uuml;rn, stationed in Okahandja, South-West Africa, just after t ...

lsquo;The vicissitudes of history have nevertheless robbed many peoples of a priceless portion of this inheritance i ...

ldquo;The town burnt furiously, all these three days of rain failing in any way to impede the progress of the de ...

Questions of restitution of looted artefacts often take us to strange places and directions but the report of the co ...