Artefacts

Phoka Nyokong and the fight for Africa’s stolen artefacts

The artist’s exhibition challenges colonial looting and the fight to reclaim Africa’s stolen cultural heritage

Kibo Ngowi

7 min read

Visitors look at statues of the ‘Royal treasures of Abomey kingdom’ on display at the Musee du quai Branly in Paris on September 10, 2021, part of 26 artworks set to be restituted to Benin later in the year. (Photo by Christophe Archambault/AFP)

ART

14 NOV 2021

Ghosts of colonial looting haunt Europe’s museums

Here is a recap of disputes over artefacts looted from Europe’s former African colonies.

Agence France Presse

2 min read

Stolen heritage: Many cultural treasures from Africa and elsewhere sit in the museums of former colonisers. Photo: Franck Fife/AFP

ACTIVISM

25 OCT 2020

Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza: Liberating Africa from land of liberté

The cultural and political activist is on a quest to bring looted treasures back home

Samira Sawlani

4 min read

Archaeology professor Zachary Gundu, who has criticised the work of German researchers during an excavation project in Nigeria

ALHAJI LAI MOHAMMED

25 OCT 2020

Inside the illicit trade in West Africa’s oldest artworks

Nok terracottas are proof that an ancient civilisation once existed in Nigeria. Now they are at the centre of a multimillion-dollar, globe-spanning underground industry — and…

Lutz Mükke
Adie Vanessa Offiong

22 min read