You Hide Me (The Colonization of African Art in the British Museum)

Ghanaian film maker, Nii Kwate Owoo, won the Best
Short Documentary Film prize at this year’s Paris
International Short Film Festival, held on September
20-27, for his documentary “YOU HIDE ME”

“You Hide Me”, made 50 years ago, reveals for the first
time hundreds of thousands of hitherto unseen rare
Asante treasures of artworks stolen by the British
after the “Sagrenti War” and the invasion of Kumasi by Sir
Garnet Wolseley in the 1870s, as well as other art treasures looted by the British expeditionary forces when they
ransacked the City of Benin (in modern-day Nigeria) in 1897. The film shows how these and other African treasures are buried deep in basements beneath museums throughout Europe and America