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Africa's struggle for its Art
Bénédicte Savoy
50 years ago Africa has been fighting for its art, which very often had ended up in European museums during the colonial period. In the end the struggle supported by the West was not only in vain but was even successfully forgotten. Drawing on countless unknown sources from Europe and Africa, Bénédicte Savoy tells the exciting, ghostly story of a missed opportunity, a defeat that is hitting us all the harder today.
The dynamic has been set in motion by African intellectuals, politicians as well as museum employees immediately after 1960, when 18 former colonies became independent. All over Europe, politicians, journalists, academics and some museum staff tried to find a way to give back African cultural assets in the sense of post-colonial and post-racist solidarity.
In the end. Bénédicte Savoy follows the post-colonial awakening and its suffocation, and asks which actors, structures and ideologies ensured that the project of an orderly and fair return of cultural assets failed.