Afrika Museum is a museum about people located in the wooded hills of Berg en Dal near Nijmegen. September 11, 2020. In an action streamed live on Facebook, the group took a Congolese funeral statue from a Dutch museum, saying they were recovering art looted during the colonial era. The Afrika Museum said in a statement that the statue was removed on Thursday from the museum located in Berg en Dal, near the eastern Dutch city of Nijmegen.
The incident came amid continuing anger at symbols of colonialism and slavery in the United States and Europe, afterThe statue action in the Netherlands came the day that prosecutors in neighbouring Belgium said that a tooth presumed to be from Congolese independence heroDiscrimination on the rise in the NetherlandsIn June, five protesters, including Congo-born Diyabanza, were stopped before they could leave the Quai Branly Museum inwith a 19th century African funeral pole and placed under...
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