Hardly a month goes by without the restitution of an artifact or artwork to a former colony being reported somewhere in Europe. French President Emmanuel Macron has jumped on the bandwagon, promising to return a drum carved by the Tchaman or Ebrié people, presently in the Quai Branly Museum, to the Ivory Coast. Confiscated...
Hardly a month goes by without the restitution of an artifact or artwork to a former colony being reported somewhere in Europe. French President Emmanuel Macron has jumped on the bandwagon, promising to return a drum carved by the Tchaman or Ebrié people, presently in the Quai Branly Museum, to the Ivory Coast. Confiscated by colonists in 1916, the instrument tops the list of 148 works that Ivory Coast has been demanding for three years. At the Franco-African meeting in Montpellier (Southern France), the French president…
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