{"product_id":"fifteen-colonial-thefts-a-guide-to-looted-african-heritage-in-museums-9780745349527","title":"Fifteen Colonial Thefts: A Guide to Looted African Heritage in Museums","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Eloquent and powerful ... an invaluable collection of forgotten histories. The authors show 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' \u003c\/b\u003eFran?oise Verg?s, author of \u003ci\u003eA Programme of Absolute Disorder: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eDecolonizing the Museum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Brings much-needed diversity to a debate that has for too long focused on a very few cases mainly seen from a European perspective. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA great introduction to the history behind \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe restitution process' \u003c\/b\u003eFelicity Bodenstein, Lecturer, Sorbonne Universit? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy focusing on colonial violence, this book \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003enot only reminds us of the nature of colonialism itself, but also of the unabated necessity to continue scrutinising museum collections \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand work towards restitution' \u003c\/b\u003eLarissa F?rster, Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Debates around restitution and decolonizing museums continue to rage across the world. Artifacts, effigies, and ancestral remains are finally being accurately contextualized and repatriated to their homelands. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFifteen Colonial Thefts\u003c\/i\u003e amplifies and adds to 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 Western museums. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Each chapter is accompanied by an original illustration, commissioned especially for the book, from established and emerging African artists, bringing these stories to life for the reader. With contributors from across the continents of 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sela K. Adjei is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher. He is a lecturer at the University of Media, Arts and Communication, Institute of Film and Television, Accra, Ghana. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Yann LeGall is a postdoctoral researcher on the project 'The Restitution of Knowledge: Artefacts as Archives in the (Post) Colonial Museum' at the Technical University in Berlin. As a member of the initiatives Berlin Postkolonial and Postcolonial Potsdam, he leads guided tours on colonial history in both cities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The book includes a foreword by Peju Layiwola, an art historian and visual artist from Nigeria. She is Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Lagos. Her works can be found in Yemisi Shyllon Museum, Lagos, and in the homes of many private collectors. Her maternal grandfather was Oba Akenzua II, King of Benin, who ruled from 1933 until 1978. Layiwola has led public advocacy for the return of artworks stolen from Benin during the Punitive Expedition of 1897. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSela K. Adjei is a multidisciplinary artist with degrees in Communication Design, and African Art and Culture from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. He received his PhD in African Studies from the University of Ghana, Legon. He is a lecturer at the University of Media, Arts and Communication (NAFTI). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Yann LeGall is a postdoctoral researcher on the project 'The Restitution of Knowledge: Artefacts as Archives in the (Post)Colonial Museum' at the Institute for Art History of the Technical University in Berlin. He was previously a fellow at the Research Training Group Minor Cosmopolitanisms at the University of Potsdam. As a member of the initiatives Berlin Postkolonial and Postcolonial Potsdam, he leads guided tours for university seminars and conferences in both cities and developed a digital audio guide on traces of colonial history in Potsdam. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Peju Layiwola is an art historian and visual artist from Nigeria. She is Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Lagos. Her works can be found in Yemisi Shyllon Museum, Lagos, and in the homes of many private collectors. Her maternal grandfather was Oba Akenzua II, King of Benin, who reigned from 1933 until 1978. 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