In 2021, 26 treasures that French colonial troops had pillaged from the African kingdom of Dahomey in 1892 made the long journey home from a museum in Paris to what is now the Republic of Benin. Their ...

The game takes players on its Robin Hood-style mission to bring home these missing relics. A new video game will offer players the virtual chance to reclaim looted African artifacts from white museums ...

South African gaming studio Nyamakop unveiled the new project during the Day of the Devs livestream. A new game called Relooted, developed by an African gaming studio, casts players as a crew staging ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Apollo John Rwamparo speaks forlornly of the eight-legged stool, a symbol of authority for his ancient kingdom in Uganda, now glimpsed through a glass barrier at a museum ...

A forthcoming South African video game seeks to tackle centuries of cultural theft by letting players reclaim looted African artifacts from Western museums in a series of high-tech heist adventures.

Apollo John Rwamparo speaks forlornly of the eight-legged stool, a symbol of authority for his ancient kingdom in Uganda, now glimpsed through a glass barrier at a museum thousands of miles away in ...

“Is it stealing to take back what was stolen?” That’s the question asked in the trailer for “Relooted,” a video game in which players form a crew and plan a heist to reclaim real-life African ...

For decades, the conversation surrounding stolen African treasures has been touched on, but, unfortunately, not touched on enough. Now and then an artifact or 2 is returned to Africa to show remorse ...

Mercer County Community College will host a three-month exhibit on African diaspora artifacts at its James Kerney Campus in Trenton. The exhibit will run from February 1 through April 30, 2025, at ...

An independent video game studio from South Africa plans to release a game that allows players to take back “real African artifacts from Western museums.” Nyamakop, the developers of “Relooted,” call ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture finally opens. — -- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture finally opens its doors today on the ...