Heritage: when will art objects return to African soil?

Stéphane Martin, former president of the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in Paris (July 5, 2006).

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By: Alain Foka

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It is estimated that at least 90,000 objects of art from sub-Saharan Africa are in French public collections.

Three years after Emmanuel Macron's speech in Ouagadougou, where are we in the restitution of these objects, when will African youth gain access to their heritage?  

  • Culture

  • Arts

  • Patrimony

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