A guide to only some of Africa’s looted treasures

It’s well known that the Europeans who invaded Africa, arrogantly determining that African people were savages, paradoxically looted many of African people’s treasures.

I know that if I met a group of people who I truly thought were savages, there is nothing in their possession that I would want to own, let alone loot at the cost of blood and life.

6  Won’t all these take up taunting him
and say about him, in mocking riddles,
‘Woe to him who amasses other people’s wealth!—
how long must it go on?—
and to him who adds to himself the weight
of goods taken in pledge!
7  Won’t your own creditors suddenly stand,
won’t those who make you tremble wake up?
You will become their spoil.
8  Because you plundered many nations,
all the rest of the peoples will plunder you;
because of the bloodshed and violence done
to the land, the city and all who live there.

Stern, D. H. (1998). Complete Jewish Bible: an English version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B’rit Hadashah (New Testament) (1st ed., Hab 2:6–8). Clarksville, MD: Jewish New Testament Publications.

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