Returning Lost and Stolen African Art and Antiquities

On this edition of Encounter, Ms. Nosomot Gbbadmosi, a London writer at Foreign Policy Magazine and Dr. Andrew Tchie, Africa analyst at the Royal United Services Institute in London join guest host, VOA-TV Senior Analyst Jeffrey Young to discuss the hot issue of the west repatriating Africa’s looted antiquities and artifacts. Western museums are reluctant to give back what colonialists carried off to their capitals centuries ago, but Africans insist that the works of their ancestors be returned.