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Art & Culture
frican Art was stolen reparation and restitution must Auction Houses. They are
just like the art of be established. responsible for commodifying,
Athe Jews during commercializing, valuing, and
their holocaust and must be The current dialogue and selling our cultural heritage
considered as such. It has been reparations activities are while totally eliminating
acknowledged that aprox. 90 aimed at Western Museums Africans’ Access to the
% of the traditional Cultural but neglect to recognize that industry.
material of Africa is in Western the greatest beneficiaries
Hands. A global system of have been the International Additionally, African nations
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