The speaking drum returned to Ivory Coast by France, 110 years after its theft | EUROtoday

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France returned the Djidji Ayôkwé speaking drum to the Ivory Coast on Friday, a sacred object which was looted in 1916 throughout French colonization. This restitution is a part of a course of initiated by France in 2017 and which had already enabled the return of the primary objects to Senegal and Benin.
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