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French MPs have unanimously adopted legislation allowing Paris to return to Cote d’Ivoire the Djidji Ay\u00f4kw\u00e9 talking drum, which colonial troops seized from the Ebri\u00e9 tribe in 1916. <\/em><\/p>\n The Djidji Ayokwe “talking drum” is one of tens of thousands of artworks and other prized artefacts looted by France during the reign of its colonial empire, from the 16th century to the first half of the 20th century.<\/p>\n Three metres long and weighing 430 kilograms, the drum was used as a communication tool by the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> French MPs have unanimously adopted legislation allowing Paris to return to Cote d’Ivoire the Djidji Ay\u00f4kw\u00e9 talking drum, which colonial troops seized from the Ebri\u00e9 tribe in 1916. The Djidji Ayokwe “talking drum” is one of tens of thousands of artworks and other prized artefacts looted by France during the reign of its colonial empire, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00620095:867b299b464a81cb2de8ae1e07ccf477:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,4906,5958,6183,6555,5959,21480,4960,6800,1218,7077,257,9871,6656,254,8996,8515],"class_list":["post-202399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-colonial","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-drum","tag-france","tag-ivorian","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-law","tag-news","tag-passes","tag-return","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stolen","tag-troops"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00620095:867b299b464a81cb2de8ae1e07ccf477:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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