Fiji’s stolen heritage – Why it demands a moral reckoning

Fiji’s stolen heritage – Why it demands a moral reckoning

A few years ago, at Berlin’s Humboldt Forum, Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivered a speech that was less an address than a moral thunderclap. She did not politely request; she righteously indicted. Her target was Europe’s hoarding of Africa’s looted heritage, and her argument pierced the heart of the matter: this is not about curatorial expertise, but about dignity. It is about the “paternalistic arrogance” that insists some cultur…