"Never go in against a Brit when artifacts are on the line!"
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Explanation: Just a joke about the British Museum. While a fantastic resource in the modern day for study of historical artifacts, a great many of the ones from Africa were acquired with less-than-savory means.
The British (and general European colonizer) tendency to thoroughly loot the African 'protectorates' and colonies the made in the 19th century means that many of those objects have unfortunate origin stories for how they came to be in the Museum's possession, and, again, many with ongoing disputes over whether the British Museum should own them, considering how recently they were stolen.