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Looted art: Colonial ghosts haunt Europe’s museums

Georgia Asian Times by Georgia Asian Times
November 11, 2021
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Looted art: Colonial ghosts haunt Europe’s museums

The Ato ceremony of the Kingdom of Dahomey, circa 1934, is pictured, on June 18, 2018 at the Quai Branly Museum-Jacques Chirac in Paris. - Benin is demanding restitution of its national treasures that had been taken from the former French colony Dahomey (current Benin) to France and currently are on display at Quai Branly, a museum featuring the indigenous art and cultures of Africa. (Photo by GERARD JULIEN / AFP)

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Paris, Nov 11 — With France on Tuesday returning royal treasures taken from Benin in the 19th century, here is a recap of other disputes over artifacts looted from Europe’s former African colonies.

France

In 2016 Benin demanded the repatriation of a part of its treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey.

They include totems, scepters and sacred doors from the Royal Palaces of Aboma which are held at the Quai Branly museum in Paris. French troops took them between 1892 and 1894.

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On Tuesday Macron hosted his Beninese counterpart Patrice Talon for a ceremony to return 26 of the treasures.

A 2018 report by French experts recommended a change in the law and the return of artifacts held in museums to Africa.

Ivory Coast has also requested the return of more than 100 works of art, and Senegal has asked France to return all works taken from there.

Britain

In the first such move by a UK institution, a Cambridge University college last month handed back a bronze cockerel to Nigerian officials that had been looted in the 19th century.

It was taken along with hundreds of sacred sculptures and carvings known as the Benin Bronzes during a British military expedition in the former kingdom of Benin in southern Nigeria in 1897.

A day after the Cambridge move, the University of Aberdeen in Scotland handed another Benin bronze to the same Nigerian delegation.

Thousands of Benin Bronzes are held in museums across the United States and Europe.

The British Museum, which has the largest collection, refuses to return any of its bronzes.

It has long argued that its vast trove of foreign artifacts, such as the Elgin Marbles taken from the Parthenon in Athens, are best housed there.

Germany

Nigeria has also pushed for around 1,000 Benin Bronzes to be returned from Germany. In September Berlin agreed to give back hundreds, starting next July.

Belgium

Belgium, which amassed thousands of objects during its brutal colonization of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, is looking at ways of returning artifacts.

The process could take years.

 

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