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The looting of African heritage
FRANCOISE VERGES introduces a powerful new book that explores the damage done by colonial theft
ARROGANCE AND IGNORANCE: Group of six European men sitting, surrounded by Looted objects from the Benin Punative Raid, 18 February 1897
GORDON PARSONS steps warily through the pessimistic world view of an influential US conservative
HENRY BELL takes issue with the assertion that basic income is a remedy for poverty when it doesn’t address the inbuilt inequality of capitalism
RON JACOBS welcomes an investigation of the murders of US leftist activists that tells the story of a solidarity movement in Chile
RITA DI SANTO surveys the smorgasbord of films on offer at this year’s festival
Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
Fifteen Colonial Thefts: A Guide to Looted African Heritage in Museums
Edited by Sela Adjei and Yann LeGall, Pluto, £25
EUROPEAN colonisation of Africa was not only about armed conquest, massacres and the exploitation of resources. It was also about the appropriation of spiritual and political symbols. It led to the erasure of a social, cultural, and symbolic world.
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