Pan African Reparations Council co-chair Kofi Mawuli Klu says world treasurers in the British Museum “belong to all of humanity” and called for a discussion about where the artifacts should be kept going forward.
For god sake no it's not it's belong to the culture and people they where stolen from when this looted artifacts art goes to there original place then it will belong to all World
I am an Australian and the British museum should not give any of its treasures back the treasures belong to the world not not Egypt or Africa or any other
Give back to the whiners and then use their section for the cultures under attack Tibet Uighur frequent visitor to the British Museum African and Indian section no one visits give their stuff back and replace with more important content.
The real question is why a nation stewarding over the land of forebearers – in the case of, say, Greece – has any right to objects of people who came before.
Or that their people have any right to objects found thousands of years ago just because they’re the ones in charge of the land now.
It really is the same case for Egypt and mummies. Their culture may have roots in that history, but it has shifted to a point where no one can reasonably claim that modern Egyptians have any right to repatriate the bodies to be displayed their own museums. Or display them at all.
The people there are less disconnected from that past, but still so severed that there is as much case to be made to have such millennia-plus artifacts simply ‘fair game’.
It’s like demanding a great, great, great grandfather’s pocket watch from his casket.
You have to be insane to think you have that right.
Proximal claim is so weak; generational ties for ancient artifacts are weak; and the only ‘right’ people have to take from the dead – even to study history – is negligible at best the moment it is put on display as far as I’m concerned.
If something is so far removed from a culture so as to be forgotten that it was stolen, it really enters into the realm of either ‘everyone’ or ‘no one’ can touch it.
Otherwise, it is just an exercise in arrogance as we selfishly satisfy our own curiosity by parading the corpses of people around.
In the case of discovered – and not clearly stolen, recorded, and attributed – artifacts, there isn’t any ‘cultural genocide/theft’ by taking something that, in fact, may be discerned to be from a particular region x centuries earlier. Culture propagates itself by the ghosts of its past they honour – and not the corpses they find along the way.
Whether you even think humanity has a right to its history is, itself, a question that really demands wondering if those who alive are somehow more valuable than those who died before. It isn’t actually abundantly clear. And the only clear justifications are excuses to others who breathe and presumptions we impose on those who do not have tongues to deny our words.
But, yeah, sure I’m positive this comment section will be filled with those spiting England’s colonial past and not considering the justifications other nations use to parade around their ‘national image.’ So much are false relics curated to impose togetherness with the people when the governments have little connections with the people who live in their lands right now. But it sells. And satisfies intellectual curiosities. And allows people of today to bask in the accomplishments of the past without doing much of anything. As if it’s reflective of their own character – or national character in some cases such as these.
The good thing about the British Museum is it saved and collected materials from all over the world and has protected them for all time to benefit all.
Kofi Mawuli Klu holds an LLM, with specialization in Constitutional Law, from the Patrice Lumumba Peoples Friendship University in Moscow (1986). Know who you're dealing with. He's what the Russians would call a useful idiot.
World treasures stolen by British Museums ‘belong & should be returned to all of humanity’. Fixed it!
Safest in a civilised countries museum then…
I wish to go to British Museum soon.
Oh bad luck .😂
For god sake no it's not it's belong to the culture and people they where stolen from when this looted artifacts art goes to there original place then it will belong to all World
Yeh, we saw what happened to world tresures under ISIS. At least Britain is stable AND multicultural.
How about the woke king 👑 Charles give back the taxpayers money he's stolen
THIEVES!!!!
Leave them in Britain. At least they’ve taken care of them and acquired them set up putting them in the grass hut will get pillage.
I am an Australian and the British museum should not give any of its treasures back the treasures belong to the world not not Egypt or Africa or any other
Give back to the whiners and then use their section for the cultures under attack Tibet Uighur frequent visitor to the British Museum African and Indian section no one visits give their stuff back and replace with more important content.
The real question is why a nation stewarding over the land of forebearers – in the case of, say, Greece – has any right to objects of people who came before.
Or that their people have any right to objects found thousands of years ago just because they’re the ones in charge of the land now.
It really is the same case for Egypt and mummies. Their culture may have roots in that history, but it has shifted to a point where no one can reasonably claim that modern Egyptians have any right to repatriate the bodies to be displayed their own museums. Or display them at all.
The people there are less disconnected from that past, but still so severed that there is as much case to be made to have such millennia-plus artifacts simply ‘fair game’.
It’s like demanding a great, great, great grandfather’s pocket watch from his casket.
You have to be insane to think you have that right.
Proximal claim is so weak; generational ties for ancient artifacts are weak; and the only ‘right’ people have to take from the dead – even to study history – is negligible at best the moment it is put on display as far as I’m concerned.
If something is so far removed from a culture so as to be forgotten that it was stolen, it really enters into the realm of either ‘everyone’ or ‘no one’ can touch it.
Otherwise, it is just an exercise in arrogance as we selfishly satisfy our own curiosity by parading the corpses of people around.
In the case of discovered – and not clearly stolen, recorded, and attributed – artifacts, there isn’t any ‘cultural genocide/theft’ by taking something that, in fact, may be discerned to be from a particular region x centuries earlier. Culture propagates itself by the ghosts of its past they honour – and not the corpses they find along the way.
Whether you even think humanity has a right to its history is, itself, a question that really demands wondering if those who alive are somehow more valuable than those who died before. It isn’t actually abundantly clear. And the only clear justifications are excuses to others who breathe and presumptions we impose on those who do not have tongues to deny our words.
But, yeah, sure I’m positive this comment section will be filled with those spiting England’s colonial past and not considering the justifications other nations use to parade around their ‘national image.’ So much are false relics curated to impose togetherness with the people when the governments have little connections with the people who live in their lands right now. But it sells. And satisfies intellectual curiosities. And allows people of today to bask in the accomplishments of the past without doing much of anything. As if it’s reflective of their own character – or national character in some cases such as these.
No, you give them back.
😂😂😂😂😂 NOPE.
THEY BELONG TO THE NATIONS YOU STOLE THEM FROM.
Australian indigenous will lay claim to it under the Voice proposal
The good thing about the British Museum is it saved and collected materials from all over the world and has protected them for all time to benefit all.
Kofi Mawuli Klu holds an LLM, with specialization in Constitutional Law, from the Patrice Lumumba Peoples Friendship University in Moscow (1986). Know who you're dealing with. He's what the Russians would call a useful idiot.
Alt title: ‘The Greeks lack marbles, blame Brits’.
its better off where it is right now
If they were returned to some places of origin, theyd be sold off to private collectors.
Pan African reparations? F OFF losers
When you lose a war stuff gets stolen Britain had tons of stuff stolen by the Vikings he needs to learn history as Britain never committed Genocide 🤣🤣