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The Compass: Finders Keepers: Finders Keepers: A photograph, a pipe and a skull

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Kema and skull

02/12/2020 GMT

Finders Keepers: A photograph, a pipe and a skull

Finders Keepers

BBC World Service - The Compass, Finders Keepers, Finders Keepers: A photograph, a pipe and a skull

Should priceless stolen objects that form part of history be returned to their origins?

Actor and musician Kema Sikazwe is no historical expert. A young Zambian who now lives in northern England, he hasn’t even set foot inside a museum since he was ten years old. All that changes when Kema learns about the movement to return stolen objects back to where they came from. Should these priceless parts of history be returned? And if so, what’s at stake? 

Kema measures the scale of the problem on a visit to Newcastle’s Great North Museum. Curator JC Niala shares her experience of seeing a photograph of her grandfather on display in a Kenyan exhibition, and Kema’s father tells him about an ongoing dispute between Britain and Zambia.

Theme music composed by Kema Sikazwe aka Kema Kay

Programme produced by Scattered Pictures

The Compass: Finders Keepers

Calls for the return of objects, looted from around the world are growing ever louder.
 
Are age old culture wars really about to end? Finders Keepers introduces the cultural activists who are taking matters, and sometimes statues, into their own hands.
 
Actor and musician Kema Sikazwe is no historical expert. This young Zambian who now lives in northern England, hasn’t even set foot inside a museum since he was ten years old. All that changes when Kema learns about the movement to return stolen objects back to where they came from.
 
Should these priceless parts of history be returned? And if so, what’s at stake? From his home in Newcastle, to London, Paris and Amsterdam, Kema talks to curators, campaigners and commentators at the heart of this cultural conflict.

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