'Restitution' of Looted African Art Just Continues Colonial Policies - Much More Is At Stake TC_Africa: Africa
analysisThe violence of the past is far from over. But it is disguised in many ways, made invisible and normalised. What started with the Spanish, Portuguese or the Ottoman empires continued with the British, French and Russian empires, and now the United States. Imperial political violence continues today in Palestine, Ukraine, Sudan, Yemen, Iran, to name but a few.- artworks which were made in worlds that empires destroyed, and were then taken to the imperial centres, or metropoles.
Restitution ignores the annihilation of life forms - of social, political, ecological and epistemological organisation - that was perpetrated in Africa by the empires.
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