00:00It was seized by France more than a century ago.
00:05Known as a talking drum, this instrument is now set to return to Ivory Coast, its original home, after the French parliament voted to return it.
00:15It is a clear acknowledgement of a history of colonial violence, looting and cultural erasure.
00:22More than three meters long, and weighing in at 430 kilograms, the instrument was used to transmit messages, including warnings.
00:31The drum made it possible to transmit messages over long distances, up to 30 kilometers in all directions, to villages neighboring the village of Ajami, where it was located.
00:44Taken by colonial troops in 1916, the drum was sent to France in 1929.
00:50It has since been exhibited at two museums in Paris.
00:55You can see that it has been quite badly affected by insects, which have dug holes.
01:03This has weakened the drum.
01:06Repaired in 2022, the drum has been eagerly anticipated back in Ivory Coast.
01:12The country had officially requested for it to be returned more than six years ago.
01:17Back in 2017, President Emmanuel Macron announced he wished to establish a new relationship with Africa and pledged to return looted artworks to the continent.
01:27But repatriations have been slow.
01:29France still holds tens of thousands of objects from sub-Saharan Africa in public museums.
01:35France seem more recently.
01:37France still holds�ized megabonded by nationations spread by human experience.
01:39The next Maric is a streamer.
01:40Brazil West Asia'sjem in China has become a full-goal relationship for its most of its biggest moments.
01:41France is a streamer.
01:42France has been buried with the space in the rainwater with the island in the desert.
01:44A streamer is filled with the island in the south seas that were the island in 2020,
