nov 8, 2017 - French president Macron announces intention to initiate restitution of the African patrimony in French museums

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On 28 November 2017, the French president Emmanuel Macron, speaking in Ouagadougou, expressed his intention to initiate restitution, either temporary or permanent, of the African patrimony in French museums, to be accomplished within five years. It was quite a turnaround from another French president’s finger-wagging speech 10 years earlier, when Nicolas Sarkozy lectured academics in Dakar on the reasons for African backwardness.

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