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Museums must confront the histories through which their collections were assembled.

— Chika Okeke-Agulu

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More quotes by Chika Okeke-Agulu

The restitution of African cultural heritage is ultimately about justice.

Africans have been asking for these treasures, for these incredibly valuable artefacts, since my lifetime.

The beginnings of the revival of the people who were for so long damaged by colonialism.

For my mother, the lingering pain of that war was waking up and finding that the shrines had been systematically looted.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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