Photo: MUBI Mati Diop never thought she’d see it in her lifetime: 26 royal artifacts , pillaged by the French from the kingdom of Dahomey, finally repatriated from Paris to present-day Benin over a century later. Before President Emmanuel Macron announced the return of these works in 2018, the French Senegalese actress and director was planning to write a fictional film about restitution. She had already envisioned it: An African mask would recount, in voice-over, the tale of his pillaging and