The paper, a collaboration of one author in Ethiopia and the other in Europe, takes multidisciplinary perspective and analyses Britain’s raid in Maqdala in 1868 and the Italian Fascist occupation from 1936-41.
In each case they review the history, phases, changing types and processes of restitutions, the actors involved and where the artefacts have since been kept, focusing not only on looted items in European public collections but also with private collectors and the art trade.
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