We have Come to Conquer Belgium and Confirm Cultural Occupation

When Mwene Mwatshisenge, the traditional King of the Chokwe, anonymously arrives in Brussels, nobody can predict how much his visit to the Royal Museum for Central Africa will contradict the international discourse regarding the restitution of African art objects to Africa. His statement claims that his cultural objects that came to Belgium have gained their place and culturally occupy undisputed spaces. They are home and occupy Belgium under the Modernity boomerang. Mwene Mwatshisenge sticks to his people's comprehension of the Chokwe cultural objects' capacity to conquer the world.This book focuses on Mwene Mwatshisenge's statements and inserts them into modernity at large, where cultural flows reach out to the world and where primitive arts share the same spaces with other arts. Chokwe art objects have traveled to occupy new lands.

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Felix Kaputu ist Doktor der Anthropologie und Afrikastudien, Doktor der interdisziplinären Studien und Doktor der vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft. Er erforscht das Chokweland und untersucht das tägliche Leben der Chokwe in einer Gesellschaft, die mit großer Sorge auf ihre kulturelle Zukunft blickt, die ihre kulturellen Wurzeln bedroht.