Artwork Taken From Africa, Returning to a Home Transformed

January 07, 2019

IAS Director, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, in a discussion with Toyin Ojih Odutola and Cécile Fromont on the fate of artworks stolen from the African continent.

A pivotal report calls for thousands of artworks to leave French museums and return to West Africa. An artist, a historian and a philosopher debate what should happen — and what these objects could mean to young Africans who have never seen them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/arts/design/african-art-france-museums-restitution.html