USA Africa Dialogue Series - A global tragedy: Brazil's National Museum gutted by fire

As someone who has visited this museum on three occasions, I cannot but weep over this calamity.

 

https://www.axios.com/massive-fire-gutted-brazil-national-museum-001ef8c7-78bd-4658-9870-bfb133584f08.html

 

 

How could this have happened, to lose an entire national museum?

 

Toyin Falola

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