By Oyindamola Fakeye2023-04-21T08:30:00
Oyindamola Fakeye, the executive and artistic director at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Lagos, explains why we should get behind efforts to decolonise the British Museum.
As someone who was born and raised in the UK and now lives and works in the arts in Nigeria, I’m invested in the idea of decolonising museums.
When I think back to some of my favourite experiences growing up, many of them include time spent in galleries and museums in and around London. It was the free access to the museum collections that fostered my love for the arts and influenced my eventual career path. How then could I believe that these museums need to be decolonised having benefitted from their collections?
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