Just imagine non-blacks with African people idols and carvings in their museums, houses, palaces and temples. Black people and black culture gotta be exciting and interesting lol

Senegal unveils Museum of Black Civilisations

AFP Pieces of art are exhibited in the new museum of black civilisations, in Dakar, on December 6, 2018, during the opening ceremony and inauguration.AFP
The idea of opening such a museum in Senegal dates back more than 50 years

President Macky Sall has inaugurated Senegal’s new Museum of Black Civilisations in the capital, Dakar.

It follows calls from Senegal and other African nations for France to return art it looted during the colonial era.

Among the first temporary exhibitions to be shown is work from artists from Mali and Burkina Faso as well as from Cuba and Haiti.

After decades of inaction, construction was finally made possible after a $34m (£27m) Chinese investment.

Senegal's President Macky Sall cuts a ceremonial ribbon to inagurate the museum
President Macky Sall cut the ceremonial ribbon at today’s inauguration

The idea of establishing the museum dates back more than 50 years, to Senegal’s late poet-president, Léopold Sédar Senghor.

Along with Martinican writer Aimé Césaire, Senghor was a creative force behind the philosophy of Négritude, which opposed the imposition of French culture on colonies in Africa and the Caribbean.

Museum of Black Civilisations A mask of sculpted wood, pigment, hair and natural fibres.Museum of Black Civilisations
This striated kifwebe mask hails from the Democratic Republic of Congo

The museum will not be a commemorative monument, its director says, but rather a creative laboratory to help shape a continent’s sense of idenтιтy.

It is expected to open to the public in the coming weeks.

Museum of Black Civilisations A painting depicting a map, symbols and textMuseum of Black Civilisations
“Kachireme” by Cuban artist Leandro Soto finds parallels between Nigerian ancestral spirits and Native American beliefs

“This museum is a step forward for us,” Amadou Moustapha Dieng, a Senegalese arts journalist, told the BBC.

“I know there are important relics which I’m not able to see unless I go abroad, but now [with] this space, we can get back the relics and Africans can come here now and see this was their history.”

Museum of Black Civilisations An art installation featuring casts of heads, a brick wall, and chair among other objectsMuseum of Black Civilisations
This 2004 piece, which reflects on history as “progressive blindness”, is among the more recently created works

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