
French Lawmakers Approve Bill to Simplify Return of Colonial-Era Art
France still holds tens of thousands of colonial-era artefacts, prompting a new measure focusing on items acquired between 1815 and 1972.

France still holds tens of thousands of colonial-era artefacts, prompting a new measure focusing on items acquired between 1815 and 1972.

Germany is confronting its colonial past with symbolic gestures and development aid for Namibia—while firmly rejecting financial reparations as legally baseless.

Reigning or not, it is far from beyond the realm of possibility that one or more Royals may one day find the situation forcing or inviting them to mobilise precisely those traditions they embody in order to save their people from whatever dire fate otherwise awaits them.