Centuries-old stone Buddha statues and precious jewelry repatriated by the Dutch government to its former colony are on ...

Centuries-old stone Buddha statues and precious jewelries repatriated by the Dutch government to its former colony are on ...

Centuries-old stone Buddha statues and precious jewelries repatriated by the Dutch government to its former colony are on ...

Sculptures looted by British soldiers from the Kingdom of Benin in 1897 hangs on display ... have treated the remains of our ancestors as artifacts, as the unclaimed or unknown people, and by ...

Dahomey, which is representing Senegal in the Oscar race, follows the return to the Republic of Benin of 26 royal African ... fantasy — including having the artifacts speak their own voiceovers ...

And white “experts” telling Black workers in Benin how to handle the treasures ... strict orthodoxy of documentary film by imbuing the artifacts with human voice, narrated by five different ...

Beauty vs. Pathos — a draw. Mati Diop’s probing doc about African cultural heritage and Benin artifacts being recovered to their continental place outclasses the Denzel Washington clan’s ...

Three years later, France repatriated 26 treasures looted from the West African country of Benin. But the extent of restitution has fallen short of expectations. Because artifacts housed in state ...