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AGENCIES | In the largest restitution of its kind, the Netherlands recently returned 119 Benin Bronzes to the Nigerian ...
London mdash; Nigerian rapper and activist Emmanuel Great Okugun, known as Gee Baller and Yaya Bande, staged a protest at the ...
Museums worldwide are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Here's why it matters, who's receiving them, and what it means for restitution policies.
Centuries after Europe’s colonial scramble, the fight to reclaim looted masterpieces, from West African “talking drums” to ...
Nigerian rapper and activist Emmanuel Great Okugun, known as Gee Baller and Yaya Bande, staged a powerful protest at the ...
Nigerian rapper, activist, and cultural advocate Great Okogun has issued a powerful call for justice and restitution during a protest at the British Museum.
Long before London installed street lights, Benin City, an ancient Nigerian capital, had already lit its streets with torches and lamps. Here’s the powerful history.
Leaders at the Museum of Fine Arts were in New York Friday to return a pair of disputed artworks looted during a notorious 19th-century British raid on the Benin kingdom, in present-day Nigeria ...
They also made off with some of Africa's greatest works of art. This is the story of the 'Benin Bronzes': their history before the British took them, their fate since 1897, and the intense debate ...
The terracotta and iron Commemorative Head from the 16th or 17th century and a 16th–century bronze Relief Plaque Showing Two Officials with Raised Swords were looted by British soldiers during their ...
Art historian Philip J. C. Dark, in his work titled, “Benin Bronze Heads: Styles and Chronology,” said that about 6, 500 Benin artefacts could be found in an estimated 77 places across the world.