If you’ve been listening to Dynamite Doug, you know it focuses on the looting of Cambodia’s art, and how so many priceless statues wound up in Western museums or with rich collectors. In this bonus episode of Dynamite Doug, Project Brazen reporter Neha Wadekar travels to Kenya to see how it is responding to the loss of its own cultural heritage to traders and colonizers.
More than 32,000 Kenyan cultural artifacts, ranging from drinking gourds to tribal belts and ceremonial shields, live in museums around the world, and are largely inaccessible to Kenyan people. Kenyan artists and technologists are working to digitally catalog these items and bring them to life through 3D printing and virtual reality — but critics say it’s no replacement for repatriation.
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Live Bonus: A Discussion on Cambodia’s Stolen Statues
Episode 6: “Curiosity Killed the Cat”
Episode 5: The Lion
Episode 4: Art Sleuths
Episode 3: Unrequited Love
Episode 2: Blood Statues
Episode 1: Greatest Art Heist
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