And some of the largest institutions, like the British Museum, have actively avoided the conversation. Few governments have enacted general return policies. Only a handful of objects have actually been restituted, despite thousands of outstanding requests. Yet there are also rumblings of a backlash. Museums rise across Africa to welcome the prodigals, from the cities of Benin to Benin City, Nigeria, where plans have been announced for a sprawling, David Adjaye-designed Edo Museum of West African Art. France has since repatriated dozens of major works to Senegal, Madagascar, and Benin, where President Patrice Talon hailed their arrival as the return of “our soul.” In 2017, during a state visit to Burkina Faso, he declared that “African heritage cannot solely exist in private collections and European museums.” The next year, his government issued a report that shocked many in the museum world, calling for permanent returns of looted art. But it was France’s President, Emmanuel Macron, who tipped the first domino. The wave of returns has many causes, from geopolitical jockeying to the reckonings prompted by social movements like Rhodes Must Fall and Black Lives Matter. Belgium, which keeps the world’s largest single collection of African art in a gloomy palace near Brussels, has promised to review all colonial-era acquisitions with the Democratic Republic of Congo. In March, the Smithsonian agreed to transfer most of its thirty-nine Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, following a similar decision by Germany’s national museums. Now, in a very short time, a tectonic shift has occurred. Only twenty years ago, a group of the world’s self-designated “universal” museums declared that many stolen works had, over time, simply become “part of the heritage of the nations which house them.” In 2018, Benin’s minister of culture described meaningful restitution as about as unimaginable as “the reunification of North and South Korea.” More than half a million such objects-by some accounts, more than ninety per cent of all cultural artifacts known to originate in Africa-are held in Europe, where they have long seemed destined to remain. Today, they’re dispersed among more than a hundred collections, with the greatest number kept at the British Museum.įor decades, the bronzes have served as emblems of the African struggle to reclaim art expropriated under colonial rule. The performance dramatized Nigeria’s long-frustrated efforts to recover the Benin Bronzes, a collection of several thousand sculptures seized, in 1897, during the British sack of Benin City. Take me back home!” Dressed as a bronze warrior, with limbs bound and a British flag trailing at his heels, he mimed the desperation of an artifact trapped in the museum-which he fled stripped to the waist, revealing metallically painted skin. To request a part call us at 57 or fill in the form below.In May, 2018, the Nigerian artist Jelili Atiku shouted for help in the lobby of the Musée d’Aquitaine, in Bordeaux. We may have it in stock at one of our five warehouses in Bourbon, Missouri Columbus, Ohio Allentown, Pennsylvania Charlotte, North Carolina or Dallas, Texas! Our inventory is constantly expanding, so let us know if you need a different Cummins flywheel. Our offering includes applications for Gas & Diesel engines dating back to the 60’s through current model production. With focus being on Medium and Heavy Duty Truck applications, we maintain coverage and depth on flywheels for 12-13 – 14- and 15-1/2 inch clutches. We have the largest selection of Flywheels available. We fill those requests for the every-day parts or hard-to-find parts. Our strength is the ability to service “truck down” and rush shipments. Along with this Volvo Flywheel, we offer an unmatched inventory of commercial truck part products. We offer same day shipping and next day delivery to a 27 state area. We will SHIP TODAY, and DELIVER TOMORROW! Give us a shot! Call 57 or fill out a Request for a part Quote for a team member to contact you about this Volvo Flywheel. Volvo Flywheel 8192808 VED7 Pot Style Flywheel We offer the following Volvo flywheels: Volvo Flywheel 12551367 If you would like a quote on a Volvo flywheel, contact us by calling 1-57 or filling out the form below. See our listing below of Volvo flywheels we offer. Along with Volvo flywheels, we offer an unmatched inventory of Flywheels for Diesel applications. We offer same day shipping and next day delivery to a 27 state area. With a massive inventory of new Volvo flywheels, First Motion Products has the Volvo flywheel you need. We carry flywheels for your Volvo engine.
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