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From South African video game studio Nyamakop comes "Relooted," a game whose mission involves repatriating these stolen items ...
Relooted is a heist game about reclaiming African artifacts from the Western countries that stole them, developed by independent South African studio Nyamakop. Relooted is set in a future timeline ...
By Rodney Muhumuza, Rai Mutsaka and Chinedu Asadu, The Associated Press Apollo John Rwamparo speaks forlornly of the eight-legged stool, a symbol of authority for his ancient kingdom in Uganda ...
Africa sees some artifacts returned home but seeks far more ... one of at least 279 objects there taken from Bunyoro-Kitara kingdom during the colonial era.
Western museums hold countless African artifacts looted during colonial times, and while some are finally coming home, it's an uphill battle. Latest U.S.
TheWrap magazine: "I wanted to give them back their power. It was important to de-folklorize them, decolonize them," the director says The post Mati Diop Gives Stolen African Artifacts a Voice in ...
Returning art and artifacts back to their countries of origin has been a huge conversation in Africa for a long time, Myres noted. He first came up with the idea for Relooted during a family trip ...
One involved the Morton Collection, more than 1,300 human skulls gathered in the 19th century and used to advance racist eugenics theories. It came to the Penn Museum in the 1960s.
Cailah Edwards, left, and Robin Kelly-Dunton are part of the student-led Sankofa Research Team at Sacramento State, and are working to catalog more than 600 African artifacts. The preservation effort ...
Relooted is a heist game about reclaiming African artifacts from the Western countries that stole them, developed by independent South African studio Nyamakop. Relooted is set in a future timeline ...