Guidelines for returning objects looted from former colonies and during the Nazi period are laid out in a report commissioned by Emmanuel Macron and written by former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez

Senate approves bill to return 27 colonial-era artefacts from museum collections to Africa within one year

France’s president pledged to return 26 items seized in the 19th century by the French military

Joint declaration is “a statement of historical responsibility,” says Culture Minister Monika Grütters

Rijksmuseum opens talks with Sri Lanka, ethnology museums publish guidelines

A selective view of African cultural heritage continues the colonialist paradigm

As debate grows over Europe's 19th-century cultural plunder of Africa, the key is to ensure meaningful access

Our London and New York teams ponder 2018's biggest art stories. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

Appeal published in Die Zeit welcomes Macron report but says debate should not be limited to restitution

We weigh up the arguments for and against the restitution of African art taken during the colonial period with Vicky Ngari-Wilson, Nicholas Thomas and Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

Country's president Joseph Kabila made the announcement ahead of opening of revamped Africa Museum outside Brussels

Technological wizardry in replication is improving, alongside claims to relocate far-flung treasures

Statements come just days after the release of a controversial French report on the restitution of African artefacts

Getting around the inalienability of public collections is dealt with in the report—but it might not work legally and practically

The French academics Bénédicte Savoy and Felwine Sarr urge President Macron to return African artefacts. But does the report go too far, or not far enough?

Announcement comes after controversial report urged the president to return works taken “without consent” in the colonial period

A new report on the status of African objects in French museums will urge the president to return works taken “without consent” in the colonial period

President Macron is ushering in a new era for the return of displaced heritage

Head of the ethnographic institution applauds President Macron’s pledge to hand back African cultural heritage

The French leader’s announcement in Burkina Faso is hailed as historic—but gets a mixed response