'Eloquent and powerful ... an invaluable collection of forgotten histories. The authors show that colonial conquest was not only about erasing, expropriating, dispossessing, extracting, exploiting, but also looting and trafficking. They make the case for unconditional restitutions and returns' Françoise Vergès, author of A Programme of Absolute Disorder:__Decolonizing the Museum 'Brings much-needed diversity to a debate that has for too long focused on a very few cases mainly seen from a European perspective.A great introduction to the history behindthe restitution process' Felicity Bodenstein, Lecturer, Sorbonne Université 'By focusing on colonial violence, this booknot only reminds us of the nature of colonialism itself, but also of the unabated necessity to continue scrutinising museum collectionsand work towards restitution' Larissa Förster, Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Debates around restitution and decolonising museums continue to rage across the world. Artefacts, effigies and ancestral remains are finally being accurately contextualised and repatriated to their homelands. Fifteen Colonial Thefts amplifies and adds to these discussions, exploring the history of colonial violence in Africa through the prism of fifteen African belongings - all looted at the height of the imperial era and brought to Western museums. Each chapter is accompanied by an original illustration, commissioned especially for the