Out of Africa | People and Power

European museums hold hundreds of thousands of colonial-era artefacts, many of them looted across centuries from their places of origin in Africa, Asia and the Americas. In recent decades, there has been a heated debate about whether, how and when these objects of huge cultural significance should be given back. Yet, despite frequent promises from Western governments to consider the matter, only a handful have ever been returned. Now, activists have begun taking matters into their own hands. Journalist Allan Clarke has been finding out why.
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