Almost all of Africa’s ancient artistic heritage and natural history collections are preserved in European countries: the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Vienna, and Belgium. Difficult as it may be to articulate the magnitude of this reality, it is even more difficult to learn how such previous cultural identities were looted and stolen from their birthplace. The restitution of African Art has long been a conversation since the year of Africa, 1960 when the independence movement began. In addition to African art, Africa’s natural history collections contain countless botanical, geological, and human specimens— prestigious unique specimens that were also extracted from Africa. For example, the fossil bones of the largest dinosaur known to the world, a one hundred and fifty million years old fossil that was extracted from Tanzania now displayed in Berlin, Germany since the 1930s. For centuries, Africans have been described as people without history, culture, or civilization and that Africans never invented anything therefore,[…]