•President Emmanuel Macron (France) and President Alassane Ouattara (Ivory Coast) France’s parliament today approved returning to Ivory Coast a “talking drum” that colonial troops took from the Ebrie tribe in 1916, in the latest green light to the repatriation of colonial spoils. The Djidji Ayokwe drum is a communication tool more than three m...
•South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa South Africa is determined to repatriate the remains of its people taken abroad during the colonial era and those who died in exile as anti-apartheid activists, the culture minister said today. The government was in contact with foreign institutions over the return of remains of indigenous people, includ...

