Benin bronzes objects are displayed at the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, Wednesday June 29, 2022 . (Bernd Weissbrod/dpa via AP)
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There has been a debate raging through the global art world, namely, the repatriation of artworks from Western galleries and museums back to their country of origin.
At the forefront of this debate is Kenyan visual artist and filmmaker Jim Chuchu, one of the co-founders of the international inventories programme, which created a database of Kenyan cultural objects that are held outside of Kenya in foreign museums. In just two years they managed to locate 32,000 objects housed in Western institutions.
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