An updated version of the series' cover drawing showing a museum shelf with meanwhile seven objects: the wooden figure from episode 1 on the top left slot, episode 2's golden crown top centre, the Rosetta Stone from episode 3 in the lower left, right next to it the Okukor rooster from episode 5, episode 6's Cullinan Diamond above and episode 4's two taxidermied lions again to the right it, finally above them the Kakuungu mask from episode 7, and to its right this episodes ekori headgear.

Part 8 of the #MuseumOfStolenHistory series in @thecontinent.org is not only shedding light on the #ekori headgear, originally worn to signify their status by the #Herero and #Himba women - but also one of the darkest chapters in German #ColonialHistory:

continent.substack.com/p/the-museum...

An updated version of the series' cover drawing showing a museum shelf with meanwhile seven objects: the wooden figure from episode 1 on the top left slot, episode 2's golden crown top centre, the Rosetta Stone from episode 3 in the lower left, right next to it the Okukor rooster from episode 5, episode 6's Cullinan Diamond above and episode 4's two taxidermied lions again to the right it, finally above them the Kakuungu mask.

There are about 10 such masks, but none remains in the Democratic Republic of #Congo: 1.5 m tall & about 10 kg heavy - that is the truly monumental #Kakuungu dance mask.

In part 7 of their #MuseumOfStolenHistory series, @thecontinent.org tells its story: continent.substack.com/p/the-museum...

An updated version of the series' cover drawing showing a museum shelf with meanwhile four objects: the wooden figure from episode 1 on the top left slot, episode 2's golden crown top centre, the Rosetta Stone from episode 3 in the lower left, right next to it episode 4's two taxidermied lions, above them the Okukor rooster from episode 5 - and now the Cullinan Diamond left to the rooster and below the golden crown.

Part 6 of @thecontinent.org 's #MuseumOfStolenHistory tells us about the largest rough diamond ever found in Africa: the mighty #CullinanDiamond, which - discovered in 1905 - now lives on in several pieces, most of them embedded in: Britain's Crown Jewels.

continent.substack.com/p/the-museum...

An updated version of the series' cover drawing showing a museum shelf with meanwhile four objects: the wooden figure from episode 1 on the top left slot, episode 2's golden crown top centre, the Rosetta Stone from episode 3 in the lower left, right next to it episode 4's two taxidermied lions, and above them the Okukor rooster.

Part 5 of @thecontinent.org's #MuseumOfStolenHistory is dedicated to #Okukor, the rooster that stood in a dining hall at Cambridge University for over 114 years before it returned to #Nigeria in 2021, where it was looted from #Benin in 1897.

🏺 pp. 15-18: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...

An updated version of the series' cover drawing showing a museum shelf with meanwhile four objects: the wooden figure from episode 1 on the top left slot, episode 2's golden crown top centre, the Rosetta Stone from episode 3 in the lower left, and right next to it the two taxidermied lions.

And in Part IV of @thecontinent.org's #MuseumOfStolenHistory we meet: #Ghost and #Darkness, the two lions who became (in)famous as "The Man-eaters of #Tsavo" among late 19th century railway construction workers in today's Kenya (and in a 1996 Hollywood movie).

continent.substack.com/p/the-museum...

An updated version of the series' cover drawing showing a museum shelf with meanwhile three objects: the wooden figure from episode 1 on the top left slot, episode 2's golden crown top centre, and now the Rosetta Stone in the lower left.

And in the 3rd episode of their #MuseumOfStolenHistory series, @thecontinent.org puts on display an object so iconic, you'd immediately recognize it: the #RosettaStone.

🏺 continent.substack.com/p/the-museum...

Part 2 in @thecontinent.org's #MuseumOfStolenHistory series covers Tewodros' II, King of Kings of Abyssinia, gold crown - looted during the British Army’s 1868 siege of Maqdala.