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The mission of Sindika Dokolo foundation to repatriate African art

The art collector and Congolese businessman Sindika Dokolo is now a popular name in the field of art collection. He has a deep love and passion for African arts and artifacts. Dokolo inherits this passion for classical arts from his father. Since early childhood, Dokolo starts art collection.  Sindika Dokolo always wants to bring back the lost heritage of Africa. It has become his dream to bring back all the artifacts and artworks to their homeland. To accomplish his mission and dream art enthusiast, Sindika Dokolo established his foundation of contemporary art collection. Notably, Sindika Dokolo has achieved commendable success in repatriating African art culture.

Dokolo’s unique collection of contemporary African art

African artworks and artifacts clearly reflect the rich African culture. Dokolo desires to introduce African artifacts to the international market. He believes that modern artists do not aware of the traditional classical art form, so he wants to bring the classical art form back through these African artworks to their own root.

 In order to accomplish his desire, Sindika Dokolo acquired several contemporary art collections from German business tycoon.  He works very hard for the revival of the African art and wants to protect it so that it will never be obsolete from the mind of the people.

  The Congolese businessman and art enthusiasts, Sindika Dokolo repatriates those African artworks that have been missed during the time of civil war.  He has collected moreover 5000 pieces of Africa arts.  Thus, he becomes a symbol of the repatriation of art history of Africa.

Hope for redefining Africanity

 Sindika Dokolo’s planning and action makes it clear that he wants to make a new revolution in the field of art. In addition to this, his hard work for repatriation of contemporary arts clearly states that he is much aware of the importance of the media attention.  It helps him to bring African arts to notice into the international market.  As per his belief, Contemporary African arts are not merely a collection for decorations. All these classical African arts are like the beacon of hope for redefining and resurrection of the African arts.

Sindika Dokolo’s philosophy

The life philosophy of Sindika Dokolo depicts the truth that the revival of the ancient classical African arts can bring new patterns, new designs in art form by beating up the traditional Eurocentric perspective and it has a major contribution in artistic recreation.

 In fact, he conducts a campaign and leverages African art experts to make his campaign successful. In addition to this, he has also used his power, contacted powerful millionaires to make his campaign successful. Moreover, He has also contacted lawyers to continue his campaign peacefully.   

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