[Épinglé] Theme of the month: Restitution/repatriation of looted artefacts

@tsholo Agreed that these artefacts even though stolen are coming from being kept with utmost care and thus we should also ensure that as you said we have the right conditions including infrastructure to ensure that we preserve them for future generations.

1. Good questions @Number, just to chip in, i would say though we are voicing the need for the return of our objects, we Africans, our appreciation of what we already have here at home is not satisfying. Just to look at a level at which heritage education is considered, i would say it is not really taken serious (for lack of a better word to use) in our continent, our education systems are making hertitage education an option thing thus making it less of interest to majority of young generation and those to come. I would like to compare this to environmental education which its education is very rife across the world, you take in the issues of climate change, these are everyday discussed issues but when it comes to heritage, highlighting it as another major topic concerning environmental sustainability, the impact is not felt as expected, that is its debates are shallow. So what i am trying to say is that maybe we need to appreciate and value what we have at hands, be taken back to make connections with those objects that have been looted. That is we need education awareness of the looted objects, make sense out of them and be able to trace our indentities from them.

@nmbure I also think that appreciation of what we have depend much on what have been taken. Most of African heritage were connected to nature so we were left with (forest, rock shelters, rivers etc and the objects were taken abroad this killed the bond that African have with their culture, In the end social practices like ritual were not performed properly because the meaning were destroyed. So, I think we should continue taking care of what we have right now while waiting for what has been taken to be returned so that they could make a good combination of a real African culture.