B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte Savoy<\/strong>, Professor at the Coll\u00e8ge de France, Paris and at the Technical University of Berlin Moderation Georg Lennkh<\/strong>, Member of the board, Kreisky Forum, CARE Austria, former Austrian Special Envoy for Africa<\/p>\n The return of African cultural assets has been an issue in European-African relations for decades. There have been repeated declarations at UNESCO or at meetings between the EU and Africa and in their joint strategy, but no concrete steps have ever been taken. ZUR\u00dcCKGEBEN Die Restitution afrikanischer Kulturg\u00fcter B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte Savoy, Professorin am Coll\u00e8ge de France, Paris und an der Technischen Universit\u00e4t Berlin Christian Schicklgruber, Direktor des Weltmuseum Wien Kwame Opoku, Ghana, ehem. Rechtsberater der UN in Wien Moderation: Georg Lennkh, Member of the board, Kreisky Forum, CARE Austria, former Austrian Special Envoy for Africa Die R\u00fcckgabe afrikanischer Kulturg\u00fcter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","format":[29],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"schwerpunkt":[43],"class_list":["post-4158","kreisky_event","type-kreisky_event","status-publish","hentry","schwerpunkt-internationale-politik-europa-und-sicherheit","format-podiumsdiskussion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nChristian Schicklgruber<\/strong>, Director of the Weltmuseum Wien
\nKwame Opoku<\/strong>, Ghana, former legal advisor to the UN in Vienna<\/p>\n
\nThe situation only changed when French President Macron declared in a speech to students in Ouagadougou in November 2017 that African cultural assets should be returned or given back. Macron subsequently commissioned a specially created commission to present a report on this topic, which was finalised in November 2018 and presented to the French president (\u201aRapport sur la restitution du patrimoine africain\u2018). This text was also published in Paris in November 2018 under the title \u201aRestituer le patrimoine africain\u2018 and in German in June 2019 under the title \u201aZur\u00fcckgeben. Title \u2018Zur\u00fcckgeben. On the restitution of African cultural property'. B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte Savoy led this commission together with Felwine Sarr (Professor at the University of Saint Louis, Senegal). The Austrian Weltmuseum Wien, which also has African cultural artefacts in its collections, has already been involved in coordinated contacts between European museums.
\nKwame Opoku, a recognised expert on the subject, has provided his own text on the subject.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"