Decolonisation, cultural restitution and repatriation are increasingly hot topics, dividing the world of culture and politics. From the Benin bronzes to the Koh-i-Noor diamond, books such as Dan Hicks’s The Brutish Museums and Sathnam Sanghera’s Empireland have studied extractive colonialism and questioned how cultural artefacts have travelled to, and been curated within, collections in western museums – often alongside distorted versions of their origin stories, or without credit where it’s due.
American author Tania