Return of works to Benin: and now?
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By: Alain Foka Follow
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After 109 years of absence, they found their homeland in popular jubilation on November 9, 2021. They had been looted by Colonel Dodds in the royal palaces of Abomey.
Royal statues, throne of King Gbezo, and Glélé, royal seat, carved calabash and many other valuable pieces.
A symbolic return hailed by Africans who salute the pugnacity of President Patrice Talon of Benin and the perseverance and the promise kept by his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.
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But once the spoliation is recognized, when can the thousands of works concerned be returned?
And the other colonizing powers, what are they waiting for to do the same?
With our guests:
- Dr Franck Ogou
, director of the School of African Heritage
- Christian Kader Keita,
financial controller of Mauritanian and Congolese origin, author of “
On the way to the restitution of works to Africans
” (ed. Sydney Laurent, 2021)
- Abdelaziz Mounde Njimbam
, journalist.
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