{"id":206646,"date":"2026-01-24T13:24:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T13:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=206646"},"modified":"2026-01-24T13:24:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T13:24:39","slug":"looted-african-belongings-must-be-returned-is-it-repatriation-or-restitution-the-words-we-use-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=206646","title":{"rendered":"Looted African belongings must be returned: is it repatriation or restitution? The words we use matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Language shapes power and words like restitution, unlike repatriation, speak directly to justice when it comes to returning cultural heritage&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/looted-african-belongings-must-be-returned-is-it-repatriation-or-restitution-the-words-we-use-matter-268710\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Language shapes power and words like restitution, unlike repatriation, speak directly to justice when it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206646-looted-african-belongings-must-be-returned-is-it-repatriation-or-restitution-the-words-we-6974c827c3021.jpg",1356,668,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206646-looted-african-belongings-must-be-returned-is-it-repatriation-or-restitution-the-words-we-6974c827c3021-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206646-looted-african-belongings-must-be-returned-is-it-repatriation-or-restitution-the-words-we-6974c827c3021-300x148.jpg",300,148,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206646-looted-african-belongings-must-be-returned-is-it-repatriation-or-restitution-the-words-we-6974c827c3021-768x378.jpg",640,315,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206646-looted-african-belongings-must-be-returned-is-it-repatriation-or-restitution-the-words-we-6974c827c3021-1024x504.jpg",640,315,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206646-looted-african-belongings-must-be-returned-is-it-repatriation-or-restitution-the-words-we-6974c827c3021.jpg",1356,668,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206646-looted-african-belongings-must-be-returned-is-it-repatriation-or-restitution-the-words-we-6974c827c3021.jpg",1356,668,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206646-looted-african-belongings-must-be-returned-is-it-repatriation-or-restitution-the-words-we-6974c827c3021-1024x504.jpg",1024,504,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206646-looted-african-belongings-must-be-returned-is-it-repatriation-or-restitution-the-words-we-6974c827c3021-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206646-looted-african-belongings-must-be-returned-is-it-repatriation-or-restitution-the-words-we-6974c827c3021-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}