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Cultural Restitution
October 8, 2024
ETHIOPIA
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ETHIOPIA
Updated October 2024
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to Ethiopia, together
with other restitution news. Entries are updated regularly
October 2024
The newly created Royal Ethiopian Trust has negotiated the return to Ethiopia of a 19th century shield looted from from Maqdala and withdrawn from a UK auction in February 2024
More News
Explaining why a looted artefact should be returned to its country or community of origin can sometimes be straightforward. But explaining how is altogether different
Laying Ancestors to Rest pulls no punches. The recommendations made in a new policy brief published by the All Party-Parliamentary Group on Afrikan-Reparations (APPG-AR) include making the sale of human remains illegal and putting an end to the public display of ancestral remains
What will it take to break the British Museum’s determination not to explain when an object is ‘unfit to be retained’?
