Dahomey evaluation: Mati Diop’s probing documentary on restitution of stolen artefacts makes for important viewing
Mati Diop’s new documentary is not like anything you will see this 12 months. The French-Senegalese filmmaker has made a transfixing doc that follows the restitution of 26 stolen artefacts that had been positioned within the Musée Quai Branly in Paris. Looted throughout the 1892 invasion, these artefacts are actually returning to the land of…