Mwazulu Diyabanza goes into European museums, picks up African objects, and gives talks alleging that Europeans stole the objects. Perse has been charged with theft for doing this.

Perse describes per actions as "theft" but I am skeptical of that. It is clear that Mwazulu Diyabanza is not really stealing the objects, rather making theater about the idea of stealing them. Perse carries them around inside the museum, and discourses about them, but never tries to remove them. This violates the museum's rules, and maybe it violate some law as well, but it is not theft.

As for whether those objects were stolen in Africa, I have no opinion about that. It depends on details I don't know, and then there would be questions about which moral standard to apply. I don't know whether Mwazulu Diyabanza has thought deeply about these questions or jumped to a conclusion.

I'd like to see per comments and reasoning about the specific objects. If it is deep, there may be much in it to learn from.