Africa's stolen objects: what happens after they return
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Is That Your Argument?
The Erybia goes even further, it says that even the display of objects today by communities in public rituals can ignore their very sacredness. So what you're saying basically is that these sacred objects are actually being mistreated if they're being treated as art. Is that your argument? Yes. My community, I come from a community called Krosjeva in Nigeria. There is a particular tribe called the Erybic tribe. Today these masquerades, you have certain masquerades dances and then everyone comes out and watches them dance and stuff like that. It's kind of like a tourist attraction of some sort today. But prior to contemporary times these masquerade had
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