Africa reclaims her past as more artefacts return home
A Mangaaka, or power figure at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, taken by Europeans during the colonial period. PHOTO | THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
African conservation fraternity and governments are increasingly demanding for the return of cultural artefacts that were stolen during the colonial period by governments and individuals.
However, they are facing the challenge of insufficient global and local laws on repatriation as well as resistance from American and European museums, who claim that African museums lack the money and infrastructure to conserve the artefacts if they were to be returned.
