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The director of ‘Atlantics,’ Mati Diop, shifts her gaze from Senegal to Benin in 'Dahomey,' a docu-fiction viewing art as a repository for memory.
<p>At least 90,000 artifacts from sub-Saharan Africa are held by institutions in France, according to a 2018 <a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/07/16/france-takes-first-legal-step-towards-restitutions-to-benin-and-senegal-as-cabinet-examines-new-law" target="_blank">report </a>commissioned by the French government.</p>
Benin is founding a new museum, partly funded by the French government, that will ultimately house the returned works
French President Emmanuel Macron attended a ceremony to formally hand back 26 items taken from the kingdom of Dahomey in the south of present-day Benin, currently exhibited at the Quai Branly-Jacques…
Museum in Paris exhibits Benin's "Abomey Treasures" collection for the last time before being returned to the country