Africa's stolen objects: what happens after they return
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The Queen Victoria Museum
When the museums were founded before independence, they were in my opinion two main objectives. The colonial administration placed cultural objects in museums as a way to strip them of their cultural and spiritual significance. So what you then see is a museum which was not actually serving the community in terms of in its inclusive form. These were very exclusive elities museum that largely saved a colonial white memorial.
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