Repatriation: why Western museums should return African artefacts
A mummy of the Ancient Egyptian Priestess “Tamut” (900 BC) on display at British Museum in London, in 2014. EPA/Facundo Arrizabalaga Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, Curtin University A large number of artefacts held in Western museums and libraries are known to have been appropriated over the ages through conquest and colonialism. The looting of African objects anthropologists, curators and private collectors took place in war as well as in peaceful times. […]