Stolen Culture: A Rwandan Perspective on Colonialism, Culture, and the Repatriation of Cultural Heritage - with Juvenal Nsengimana, Legal Advisor at the Institute of National Museums of Rwanda

The removal of cultural treasures from formerly colonized countries has become a major issue in the media, yet voices and perspectives from the countries most affected continue to be rarely heard. This episode considers cultural heritage from the perspective of a country that has suffered profound cultural losses throughout the 20th century: Rwanda. Juvenal Nsengimana, a Rwandan lawyer and expert on cultural heritage, brings insight, honesty, and hope to the question of how his country, faced with the dual onslaughts of colonialsim and genocide, has made a priority of reconstructing its cultural past, hoping to lay the lasting foundation for a peaceful and prosperous future.