#Mwazulu Diyabanza

[fundgruber]

Mwazulu Diyabanza

#touch art #black lives matter #museum #kolonialismus

[de-chair-et-d-os]

Les objets de culte arrachés à l’Afrique pendant la colonisation fascinent les collectionneurs occidentaux. En plein débat sur la restitution du patrimoine spolié, passionnés et antiquaires continuent d’acheter et de vendre ces pièces controversées. Rencontre avec ceux qui se rêvent en explorateurs de cette « Afrique authentique » qui n’existe que sur le marché de l’art.

« Je suis venu récupérer ce qui a été volé entre 1880 et 1960 pendant que les femmes et les enfants d’Afrique se faisaient massacrer. » Béret noir vissé sur la tête, Mwazulu Diyabanza déclame un monologue dans les couloirs du Quai  Branly. Il franchit le cordon de sécurité, enjambe une statuette sacrée et tente de la dévisser de son socle. « Nul n’a le droit de prendre ce qui appartient au peuple africain ! C’est notre patrimoine qui a rapporté des millions à l’Europe ! » La statuette résiste un long moment mais finit par se décrocher. L’homme la charge sur son épaule et se dirige vers la sortie. Les agents de sécurité lui barrent la route, mais il est déterminé : ce poteau funéraire Bari « rentrera à la maison ». Cette action spectaculaire, Mwazulu Diyabanza la reproduira au Musée d’Arts Africains, Océaniens, Amérindiens de Marseille et au Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale à Bruxelles. En quelques mois, il devient l’ennemi numéro 1 des institutions européennes.

#mouvement

[imhereandhistorical]

GOOD HE SHOULD

read the article it’s amazing

BUTINCASE tldr: Mwazulu Diyabanza said he watched that scene in Black Panther where Killmonger went to the British Museum and he was like ayo

....my shit is over there too, now hold on-

His family is from Democratic Republic of the Congo and he went to come museums in Europe and was like WOW that’s our ancestral pieces 

and him and his friends livestreamed on facebook live them stealing things. 

He of course got arrested, but he said he’s ok with it-it’s to force the conversation to be louder than it has been. 

#WHEW #Mwazulu Diyabanza #museums #museum #IM DELIGHTED WITH HIM

[laranjatoranjalaranja]

And they were right.

#black history #blacklivesmatter #blm #quai branly #quai branly museum #Paris #art #art history #history of art #history #cultural appropriation #mwazulu diyabanza #Isaiah Ogundele #colonialism #colonial history #anti-colonialism #restitution #restituição #British Museum #black culture #africa #afrique #african art #african culture

[merelygifted]

Mwazulu Diyabanza has been fined and jailed for entering museums and forcibly removing ‘pillaged’ African artefacts. He tells our writer why the British Museum is now in his sights

'We want our riches back' – the African activist taking treasures from Europe's museums | Art | The Guardian

#Mwazulu Diyabanza #Arts #Africa #Native Peoples #colonialism #uk #europe #museums

[one-more-offbeat-anthem]

academic search premier my beloved

#Once Again I Am Writing A Paper #well really it's an annotated bibliography for my final paper #which is on mwazulu diyabanza (Congolese activist) and the quai branly museum in paris #it's for my postcolonial Europe class (the international studies major is jumping out rn)

[queeranarchism]

If you speak French and/or are interested in the reclaiming of stolen art, it’s worth following the recent actions of Mwazulu Diyabanza.

Together with a collective, he works to take back stolen art from the museums that keep it in colonialist hands. Not through petitions but by taking the art and walking out with it, confronting the difference between the theft of the colonialist who could steal art as well as human lives without consequence and the act of the colonized taking back his culture, who faces the full system of state repression for trying to return these artifacts to their homeland.

Other struggles in which Mwazulu Diyabanza is involved include the political struggle for the bodies of 7 enslaved Congolese people who were forced into human zoos in Belgium, for reburial in their homeland.

The video above is from a recent action at the colonialist ‘Africa Museum’ in the Netherlands. If you do not speak french go to 9.30 in the video to view the action.

FB: https://www.facebook.com/Mwazulu-Diyabanza-Siwa-Lemba-official-103327681334851/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4Dl4G-LN49OoGk4bFyVTcQ/

[sapphic-in]

A group is 'stealing' African artifacts from European museums, as a form of protest

"Go back far enough, and you will see that behind every great fortune is a crime. But it takes a special kind of privilege to display the evidence of those crimes as a matter of collective cultural pride. Mwazulu Diyabanza, a Congolese national and the leader of a pan-African movement called Yanka Nku (Unity, Dignity, Courage) has been fined and charged with theft in multiple countries in Europe for “stealing”, publicly, stolen and pillaged African artefacts that have found their way into these countries’ museums. His protest is meant to draw attention to the iniquities of colonialism — he and his group chant “give us our riches back” and “we are taking it home” while committing their “crime”.

The First World’s defence for the plunders of colonialism has been, at least in liberal circles, that we are sorry, and hope gradually — and often merely symbolically — to address the injustices of history. But as Diyabanza told The Guardian, talk is fine, but “action is needed” and the injustices of colonialism can ultimately be addressed only through reparations.

Protests like Diyabanza’s are likely to remain on the fringe. Those with accumulated privilege are comfortable with academic explorations of historical injustice – as the British Museum has done – but not with bearing the financial burden of moral restitution. And to be fair, European countries are not the only ones that avoid a reckoning with their past. In the US, there’s race and the treatment of Native Americans, and in the Indian Subcontinent, there’s caste. In fact, even minimal measures — like affirmative action and international aid — are viewed as either pandering or charity. Historical injustice is relegated to, well, history. In the face of this certainty and the powerful interests that back the plunder in their museums as culture, perhaps a little bit of counter-theft is understandable if not forgiven."

From: Indian Express, 09.02.2021

#IG: @sapphic.in

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[mitchipedia]

To Protest Colonialism, He Takes Artifacts From Museums – Congolese activist Mwazulu Diyabanza is on trial for theft in France after walking off with a 19th Century African artifact from the Quai Branly Museum.

“The fact that I had to pay my own money to see what had been taken by force, this heritage that belonged back home where I come from — that’s when the decision was made to take action,” said Mr. Diyabanza in an interview in Paris this month.

Describing the Quai Branly as “a museum that contains stolen objects,” he added, “There is no ban on an owner taking back his property the moment he comes across it.”

[presidentguadeloupegedinval]

lorsque l'on est petit et que l'on souhaite avoir un développement conséquent il faut se diriger vers des économies à fort développement : R&D... ne soyons pas dupe l'économie du Panama est supérieure à celle de la France... et le fait que ce pays soit très souvent dans les viseurs de certains pays occidentaux... est le fait qu'ils n'ont justement pas signer les "conventions" avec certains pays ou organisations européennes... ils sont libre et ne subissent aucune ingérence extérieure... pour mieux comprendre chaque pays occidentale a à ces pieds un état qui est entreguillemet son paradis fiscal : Andorre, Dublin, Île de Man, Luxembourg, Suisse, Guernesey et Jersey, Monaco, etc... très souvent ceux qui sont sur les listes sont ceux qui ne souhaitent pas être sous ingérence européenne... ce développe notre monnaie peut nous le permettre encore faut il ne pas le laisser être dirigé par nos excolonisateurs... chose que l'on remarque très souvent du côté des Africains (et Afrodescandants) qui participent à un sommet France-Afrique sans président africains et sans les instigateurs de la "démocratisation" de la nouvelle pensée noire : Kévin Séba, Nathalie Yamb, Egountchi Behanzin, (Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza), etc... celle qui dit et parle clairement la France dehors pour que l'on puisse faire nos propres choix : autodétermination... https://www.instagram.com/p/CVJH8trFhaq/?utm_medium=tumblr

[ujima]

I don’t need to ask a thief for permission to retrieve a stolen object

Mwazulu Diyabanza

#do not reblog #𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐏𝐔𝐓 𝐌𝐄 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 / 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒

[dmcreativestudio]

Four activists, including Mwazulu Diyabanza, have been acquitted by a French court for theft charges they accrued in relation to a July 30th demonstration at the Museum of African, Oceanic, and Native American Arts (Musée d’Arts Africains, Océaniens et Amérindiens) in Marseilles. The activists are part of the Multicultural Anti-Spoliation Front, a newly founded organization, which seeks the return of cultural artefacts and objects taken during periods of colonialism.

#éléphant #unlearning imperialism #activism #decolonise #colonization

[newsupdatedaily]

Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza: ‘France is still a colonial country’ | Europe News

Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza: ‘France is still a colonial country’ | Europe News

Paris, France – Congolese activist Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza is on a mission to make France return artefacts that he says were “stolen” from Africa during colonial times.

The 41-year-old, who was born in Kinshasa and fled to France as a political refugee, has in recent months staged protests in museums across the country, including at the Louvre, in an attempt to draw attention to his call.

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#Africa #Arts and Culture #Europe #Features #France

[onenewscentre]

Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza: ‘France is still a colonial country’ Paris, France – Congolese activist Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza is on a mission to make France return artefacts that he says have been “stolen” from Africa throughout colonial occasions.

#Africa #Arts and Culture #Europe #Features #France