The story of the large-scale plunder of African artwork and artefacts beneath European colonialism.
Within the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, European powers colonised the African continent and plundered its cultural artefacts on a large scale.
Items of nice native significance had been pillaged by invading troopers, seized by the colonial authorities, or taken by Christian missionaries.
The Europeans then put these works on show of their museums, in ethnographic exhibitions labelled “Negro Artwork”.
The works impressed artists like Pablo Picasso to supply a number of the most modern artwork of the twentieth century.
That is episode 1 of a 3-part sequence.
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