Abuja, Miami, Seoul: Gallery director Dolly Kola-Balogun maps out her path to African art’s world domination

Art market

African art

African art market

African museums

Africa

Nigeria

Commercial galleries

Retro Africa’s founder Dolly Kola-Balogun 

Germany launches African museum exchange programme to discuss returning looted objects

Museums & Heritage

Benin

Benin Bronzes

German Museums

Germany

Restitution

Museums

A pilot project called the MuseumsLab launched earlier this month with around 20 German participants and 28 from ten African nations 

A bronze head of an oba, Benin, around 16th century at Bode Museum, Berlin; photo: Richard Mortel

Could 2021 be the year of the African museum?

Leaders

Palais de Lomé

Museum of Black Civilisations

Grand Egyptian Museum

colonialism

The Museum of Black Civilisations in Senegal 

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