In Dahomey, Mati Diop Gives the Past a Lyrical Voice
Briefly

"There are thousands of us in this night. We all bear the same scars, uprooted, ripped out, the spoils of massive plundering, I'm torn between..."
"Dahomey is nonfiction, observing the November 2022 return of 26 royal artifacts that were looted from the Kingdom of Dahomey by the French in 1892..."
Read at Vulture
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