By questioning history, I realized that the Western powers no longer want to return these goods. The justification: colonial archives would henceforth be a shared heritage. They colonized, participated in decisions, co-signed documents…
But we forget that pre-colonial archives were also looted from African colonies. This argument has become a major obstacle to restitution.
Faced with this reality, I proposed an innovative solution: a platform for the digital restitution of Africa’s colonial archives, with a particular initiative for Benin: https://lnkd.in/erPRGgGy.
