Fifteen Colonial Thefts: A Guide to Looted African Heritage in Museums

About

Sela K. Adjei is a multidisciplinary artist with degrees in Communication Design and African Art and Culture from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Kumasi Ghana. He received his PhD in African Studies from the University of Ghana Legon. He is a lecturer at the University of Media Arts and Communication (NAFTI). Yann LeGall is a postdoctoral researcher on the project 'The Restitution of Knowledge: Artefacts as Archives in the (Post)Colonial Museum' at the Institute for Art History of the Technical University in Berlin. He was previously a fellow at the Research Training Group Minor Cosmopolitanisms at the University of Potsdam. As a member of the initiatives Berlin Postkolonial and Postcolonial Potsdam he leads guided tours for university seminars and conferences in both cities and developed a digital audio guide on traces of colonial history in Potsdam. Peju Layiwola is an art historian and visual artist from Nigeria. She is Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Lagos. Her works can be found in Yemisi Shyllon Museum Lagos and in the homes of many private collectors. Her maternal grandfather was Oba Akenzua II King of Benin who reigned from 1933 until 1978. Layiwola has led public advocacy for the return of art works stolen from Benin during the Punitive Expedition of 1897.