Fifteen Colonial Thefts

Name: Fifteen Colonial Thefts | A Guide to Looted African Heritage in Museums
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A Guide to Looted African Heritage in Museums

Sela K. Adjei Yann LeGall(Herausgeber*in)

Pluto Press

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Erschienen am 20. August 2024

305 Seiten

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'Eloquent and powerful' - Francoise Verges

Debates around restitution and decolonising museums continue to rage across the world. Artefacts, effigies and ancestral remains are finally being accurately contextualised and repatriated to their homelands.

Fifteen Colonial Thefts amplifies these discussions, exploring the history of colonial violence in Africa through the prism of fifteen African belongings - all looted at the height of the imperial era and brought to European museums.

Structured around three arenas - the battlefield, the royal palace, and the realm of the sacred - the book displays how colonial officers violently plundered Africa. It explores the meaning of those cultural artefacts at the time of their appropriation and today in an era of restitution.

With writers from Europe and Africa, including scientists, museum professionals, artists and activists, the book illuminates the collective trauma and loss of cultural, historical and spiritual knowledge that colonial theft engendered.

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'An eloquent and powerful book! The editors, Sela K. Adjei and Yann LeGall, have brought together an invaluable collection of forgotten histories around fifteen colonial thefts. The authors show with rigour and depth that colonial conquest was not only about erasing, expropriating, dispossessing, extracting, exploiting, but also looting and trafficking. They make the case for unconditional restitutions and returns.' -- Francoise Verges, author of <i>A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum</i> 'This book brings much needed diversity to a debate that has for too long focused on a very few cases often mainly seen from a European perspective. It is a great introduction to the history behind the restitution process and the confrontation of different perspectives that it engenders.' -- Felicity Bodenstein, lecturer in Contemporary Art History and Heritage, Sorbonne Universite 'By focussing on colonial violence in such a straightforward way, this volume not only reminds us of the nature of colonialism itself, but also of the unabated necessity to continue scrutinising museum collections and work towards restitution.' -- Larissa Foerster, Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin

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Foreword by Peju Layiwola

Introduction: Fifteen in a Thousand: How to Tell the History of Colonial Conquest, Anti-Colonial Resistance, and Looted African Heritage by Sela K. Adjei and Yann LeGall

Part I: The Battlefield

1. The Treasure of Samori Toure - by Felwine Sarr & Benedicte Savoy

2. The Manifesto of the Sudanese Mahdi: Banners as Artefacts of Empire - by Fergus Nicoll & Osman Nusairi

3. Conversation: IsiHlangu from the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879: 'We need to infuse African-ness in museum' - by Mwelela Cele & Yann LeGall

4. The Plunder from 'Adibo Dali', and Why Looted Cultural Goods Need to Return to Dagbon - by Alhaji Sulemana Alhassan Iddi, Elias Aguigah, Marlena Barnstorf-Brandes, Michael A. Gyimah, Jan Koenig & Ricarda Rivoir

5. A War Coat of the Anufo/Tchokossi: From Northern Togo to the Field Museum in Chicago -

by Julia Kennedy, Foreman Bandama, Christopher J. Philipp, and Kokou Azamede

Part II: The Royal Palace

6. Hiding and Returning Asante Regalia (1970-2024): The Journey of an Ancestral Messenger - by Nii Kwate Owoo

7. A Plaque from an Ngolo etana: The Looting of Architectural Heritage as a Token of Colonial Violence - by Richard Tsogang Fossi & Jeanne-Ange Wagne

8. Conversation: Subverting Firepower: A German Cartridge Upcycled as Snuffbox, a Symbol of Chagga Resistance - by Konradin Kunze, Sarita Lydia Mamseri, Gabriel Mzei Orio & Mnyaka Sururu Mboro

9. In Defence of Theft? On the Theft and Restitution of Ngonsso' and Punitive Exhibitions - by Godfrey B. Tangwa and Fogha MC Cornilius Refem, alias Wan wo Layir

10. The Long Journey of the bocio of Three Danxome Kings - by Didier Houenoude & Gaelle Beaujean

Part III: The Sacred

10. The Tabots from Maqdala - by Emanuel Admassu & Eyob Derillo

11. Nkisi nkonde of Chief Ne Kuko of Boma: The Tragic Spoliation of an Object of Power - by Placide Mumbembele Sanger

12. Conversation: The Ngadji of the Pokomo: On Revolutionary Responses, Release and Relationships - by Njoki Ngumi & Ade la Naomi Adere mi

13. Where are Mbuya Nehanda's Remains? A Zimbabwean Search in the Context of Shifting Museum Politics - by Njabulo Chipangura, Farai Chabata & Lennon Mhishi

14. Byeri: Ancestor Guardian Figures of the Kwasio people in Southern Cameroon - by Yrine Matchinda & Sebastian-Manes Sprute

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Appendix: List of Museums and Collections

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