The global reckoning surrounding the Benin Bronzes has sharpened the focus on Ehikhamenor’s perspective ... Let’s anchor this instead in re-education, re-position of history, which before now has been ...

In June 2021, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation decided to restitute the bronzes to Nigeria. In the guided tour, the history(s) of art from Benin will be addressed from multiple perspectives.

At the end of 2024, there was major news in the art world: talks between for the British Museum and the government of Greece over the Parthenon Marbles had reportedly reached advanced stages. If such ...

This is a Benin bronze. It was cast by one of the Oba ... Ewuare overthrew his brother, Uwaifiokun, to become the leader of Benin. Oral history remembers him as a skilled fighter who possessed ...

About 7,000 public servants make up the Smithsonian Institution. That’s a fact that Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III ...

Olugbile Holloway has called for reimagining museums by incorporating Indigenous narratives and fostering cultural immersion to preserve heritage.

By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 million people, making it the largest empire in history ... and in both world wars. The Benin Bronzes are elaborate sculptures made from metals ...

How did you feel about the recent movement to repatriate the Benin bronzes? I thought they were ... work that was influenced by African art history? Because I think you were a bit ahead of ...

Some demands are for the particular return of items taken with violence, such as the Benin Bronzes – thousands of plaques and other objects of cast brass, looted from the shrines of West African ...

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Nigeria demands the return of the Benin Bronzes, Ghana seeks the return of gold objects, and Ethiopia wants the Magdala collection back. Last year, it was revealed that approximately 2,000 items, ...

a territory that includes modern-day Benin and Togo and part of modern-day Nigeria, said Ana Lucia Araujo, a professor of history at Howard University who has spent years researching Benin’s role.