AUTHOR: KWAME OPOKU, DR.

The resurrected Berlin City Palace that contains the Humboldt-Forum.

Pressure On Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation And Humboldt-Forum To Return Illegally Acquired Artefacts And Human Remains.

Oct 21, 2017 | Feature Article

The rhetoric of the leaders of the pan-European world and the mainstream media and Establishment intellectuals is f ...

Oba Ovonramwen, during whose reign the British looted the Benin Bronzes with guards on board ship on his way to exile in Calabar in 1897. The gown he is wearing hides his shackles. Photograph by the Ibani Ijo photographer J. A. Green. From the Howie photo album in the archives of the Merseyside Maritime Museum

We Will Show You Looted Benin Bronzes But Will Not Give Them Back: Second Defeat...

Oct 2, 2017 | Feature Article

There was a dim grandeur about it all, and also these seemed to a fate. Here was this head center of iniquity, spare ...

Who Is Afraid Of Phantom Africa?

Sep 5, 2017 | Feature Article

lsquo; hellip; our research methods resemble the interrogations of an investigating magistrate much more than amicab ...

Olu Oguibe, Obelisk, Monument for Strangers and Refugees, Kassel

Impressions of Documenta 14, Festival of Contemporary Art.

Aug 21, 2017 | Feature Article

Documenta has established itself since 1955 as an indispensable art festival for all those interested in art and the fut ...

German soldiers loading human skulls and bones of massacred Hereros into a casket for shipping to German universities, especially, Berlin

How Long Must Africans Still Wait To Be Able To Bury Their Dead From Racist Germ...

Aug 7, 2017 | Feature Article

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

The Berlin-based art historian Bndicte Savoy was a member of the advisory board of Germanys most ambitious cultural project in decades. A reckoning.

Will Germans remain oblivious of the claims and sensitivities of victims of thei...

Jul 29, 2017 | Feature Article

The Arts Council of the African Studies Association will be holding its17thTriennial Conference in Accra, Legon Universi ...

Ivory hip mask, Queen-Mother Idia, Benin, Nigeria, now in British Museum, London, United Kingdom.

Nigeria Celebrates Return Of Lost Treasures: The Lost Nigerian Treasures Are Not...

Jul 17, 2017 | Feature Article

lsquo;It is indeed unfortunate that so much Nok material has been looted over time to supply the international art m ...

On the left is the cast brass head, Ori Olokun, an Ife head, in British Museum and on the right the sculpture by Damien Hirst which he calls Golden HeadsFemale.

Can An English Artist Use Classical Nigerian Art Image As He Likes? Reaction To ...

Jul 1, 2017 | Feature Article

lsquo;For, not content with being a racial slanderer, one who did not hesitate to denigrate, in such uncompromisingl ...

Poster for the International Museum Day 2017.

Will Western Museums Tell The True Histories Of Their Acquisitions? -Internation...

May 17, 2017 | Feature Article

ldquo;Truth must be repeated constantly, because error is being repeatedly preached round about all the time, and no ...

Queen-Mother Idia, Benin, Nigeria, Now In British Museum, London, United Kingdom

European Museums To ‘Loan’ Looted Benin Bronzes To Nigeria?

Apr 25, 2017 | Feature Article

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

European Museums To ‘Loan’ Looted Benin Bronzes To Nigeria?

Apr 25, 2017 | Feature Article

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

Right side of Nefertiti, Egypt, now in Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany.

Did Egyptians Never Ask For The Restitution Of Nefertiti?

Dec 26, 2016 | Feature Article

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

Foreign Gods In Vienna - Exhibition In Leopold Museum

Dec 7, 2016 | Feature Article

Few readers would know that the late Rudolf Leopold (1925-2010), founder of the Leopold Museum in Vienna, had an interes ...

Remembrance Of Injustice: Ai Weiwei Exhibition In Vienna

Sep 28, 2016 | Feature Article

quot;Two robbers breaking into a museum, devastating, looting and burning, leaving laughing hand-in-hand with their ...

Reclaiming Benin Artefacts And Parthenon Marbles After Brexit

Sep 20, 2016 | Feature Article

For many of us, any occasion is welcome for discussing the restitution of the Benin artefacts and the reunification of t ...

Musée Du Quai Branly Changes Name

Jun 12, 2016 | Feature Article

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

Musée Du Quai Branly Changes Name

Jun 11, 2016 | Feature Article

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

Kwame Opoku, Dr.

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