30 Oct 2020
Activist Tries to “Take Back” an Artifact for Africa from the Louvre Museum
Idiocy, Inadvertent Comedy, Louvre, Racial Identity
Le musée du Louvre hier: Un militant panfricain est rentré ds le musée et a déclaré qu'il était venu réclamer les biens "volés à l'Afrique" #Paris pic.twitter.com/xgTWILu01u
— Le Général 💎 (@LE_GENERAL_OFF) October 23, 2020
Activist Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza had a buddy film himself attempting to steal an artifact from the Louvre Museum! The purpose? To reclaim the sculpture for Africa, from where it was originally stolen.
One problem: The sculpture isn’t from Africa. It’s an 18th-century Indonesian sculpture.