THE BRITISH MUSEUM FEELS LIKE 'HOME' FOR AFRICANS

This hilarious meme couldn’t be any more accurate!

As Africans, the British museum would feel right at home seeing as it houses stolen artefacts from the motherland during slavery and colonisation. African countries have been campaigning for the items to be returned.

The British Museum in London houses around 73,000 African objects from the Benin kingdom in Nigeria, the Dahomey Kingdom in Benin to the Ashanti kingdom in Ghana. Over the years, European authorities have said they cannot return artefacts because they cannot determine the true owner and that they cannot trust the items will be properly managed.

Last year, the Ashanti Kingdom in Ghana got back some of its gold and silver artefacts looted during during the 19th-century Anglo-Asante War.

In 2023, the British Museum sought the public’s help in recovering 1,500 artefacts that thieves stole over the years. Talk about irony!