Itohan I. Osayimwese

A groundbreaking history of Africa's looted architectural heritage and a bold proposal for the repatriation of the continent's stolen cultural artefacts. Between the nineteenth century and today, colonial officials, collectors, and anthropologists dismembered African buildings and dispersed their parts to museums in Europe and the United States. Most of these artefacts were catalogued as ornamental art objects, which erased their...