{"id":22065,"date":"2026-02-21T06:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/relooted-the-south-african-video-game-where-players-take-back-artefacts-from-western-museums\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T06:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:37:16","slug":"relooted-the-south-african-video-game-where-players-take-back-artefacts-from-western-museums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/relooted-the-south-african-video-game-where-players-take-back-artefacts-from-western-museums\/","title":{"rendered":"Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creators say they\u2019re offering Africans a \u2018hopeful, utopian feeling\u2019 of retrieving objects looted by colonial armies<\/p>\n<p>A new South African video game lets players take back African artefacts held in western museums in a series of heists, amid a growing campaign to repatriate treasures looted by colonial armies.<\/p>\n<p>Players of Relooted become South African sports scientist and parkour expert Nomali, as she leaps and dives through museums to retrieve 70 real objects. They include an Asante gold mask that was taken by the British army when it destroyed the Asante empire\u2019s capital, Kumasi, and is now in the Wallace Collection in London. Another object is the skull of the Tanzanian king Mangi Meli, which was taken to Germany after its colonial regime executed him in 1900.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2026\/feb\/21\/south-african-video-game-artefacts-western-museums\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a867dd17861af8605c203b115269b89c45d62cbc\/781_250_2388_1910\/master\/2388.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f5c7e87792647de558a8474815a46f0c\" title=\"Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums\" \/>Creators say they\u2019re offering Africans a \u2018hopeful, utopian feeling\u2019 of retrieving objects looted by colonial armies<br \/>\nA new South African video game lets players take back African artefacts held in western museums in a series of heists, amid a growing campaign to repatriate treasures looted by colonial armies.<br \/>\nPlayers of Relooted become South African sports scientist and parkour expert Nomali, as she leaps and dives through museums to retrieve 70 real objects. They include an Asante gold mask that was taken by the British army when it destroyed the Asante empire\u2019s capital, Kumasi, and is now in the Wallace Collection in London. Another object is the skull of the Tanzanian king Mangi Meli, which was taken to Germany after its colonial regime executed him in 1900. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creators say they\u2019re offering Africans a \u2018hopeful, utopian feeling\u2019 of retrieving objects looted by colonial armies A new South African video game lets players take back African artefacts held in western museums in a series of heists, amid a growing campaign to repatriate treasures looted by colonial armies. Players of Relooted become South African sports &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/relooted-the-south-african-video-game-where-players-take-back-artefacts-from-western-museums\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22065"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}