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Why are stolen African artifacts still in Western museums?

Jim Chuchu · TED

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African artifacts shown in museums worldwide are often not borrowed, but stolen -- and TED Fellow Jim Chuchu is on a mission to get them back. Learn the sordid history behind how many of the collections in the West came to be, Chuchu's extensive work tracking and restoring Kenya's cultural heritage and what these efforts can mean for the wider African continent. An urgent call for institutions to reconsider the morality of the objects they "own" and their significance to the communities from which they were taken.

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  1. Why are stolen African artifacts still in Western museums? 5 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDMonterey
Speaker
Jim Chuchu
Year
2021
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
History, Art, architecture and design
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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