All this fuss about artefacts stolen from the British Museum is simply the chickens coming home to roost.  It’s ironic as the institutions, organisations and individuals who donated those valuable artefacts to the British Museum, stole them from various nation states in the first place.  No country has ever asked the British Museum, or any other museum for that matter, to “take care of” their historic and valorized symbols of nationhood, as if they were somehow incapable of doing so.  Most of the artefacts in UK museums, presented as belonging to Britain, were taken by force and people were killed in the process.  

Do you think that it is time for the British museum, and the institutions built on colonialism and the theft of resources from colonised nations, acknowledge the wrongs committed in the name of Empire – and the impact they continue to have on racialised groups?