Mali’s History at Risk
Sarah Searight highlights the problem of pillaging for those trying to piece together Mali’s rich heritage.
The looting of Iraqi treasures has been much in the news since the occupation of that sad country, in spite of the fact that it had been going on for years. The appetite of the international art and antiquities market is insatiable. For a much poorer country, with a long history but few funds with which to preserve it, looting, or pillaging, means the irretrievable destruction of that history. This is the case in Mali.
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