Following French President Emmanuel Macron’s 2017 commitment to repatriate Sub-Saharan African objects housed in French museums and the subsequent, widely publicized report by Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy proposing that the restitution of cultural property should be implemented on a state level, the British Museum has announced that it will return bronze reliefs looted from the kingdom of Benin to Nigeria-but on the basis of a long-term loan. INSTITUTIONAL EFFORTS to de-imperialize museum collections over the past several years have offered technocratic solutions to an existential problem. Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. From Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s exhibition "Potential History,” 2012, various locations. Folded photograph of the expulsion of Palestinians from Ramle, 1948.
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