To whom does art belong?
In a speech in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso on November 28th 2017, the French president Emmanuel Macron proclaimed “Starting today, and in the next five years, I want to see the conditions put in place so as to allow for the temporary or definitive restitution of African cultural heritage to Africa” To follow up his speech, Macron initiated an investigation of African art in French museums. The aim was to discover the extent of French holdings of African art and find