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The Benin Bronzes were seized by British forces during the Benin Expedition of 1897, and were given to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Many of the pieces were later sold, and ended up in the collections of museums around the world. Today, there are calls for the bronzes to be repatriated to their country of origin. Benin Bronze Ife bust.
Few artifacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes--a collection of thousands of metal plaques and sculptures depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of Benin City, Nigeria.
In our series of letters from African journalists, Nigerian writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani looks at how descendants of slaves in the US have entered the tug of war over some of Africa's most...
The slave trade of West African kingdoms, which dates back to the pre-colonial period — Dahomey (today the Republic of Benin), Ashanti (today Ghana), Benin and especially the Sokoto Caliphate (both today in Nigeria) — experienced a massive boom with the transatlantic slave trade.
Journalist Barnaby Phillips' Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes takes us through a history of brutal colonial thievery, cultural significance and practices, art forms and the growing movement towards returning the plundered cultural wealth to their places of creation.
Revealing both the extent of African resistance and previously concealed British outrages, this is a definitive account of the conquest and destruction of Benin.
Tony Phillips has captured the sense of dislocation caused by the legacy of trade and empire in his series of etchings called History of the Benin bronzes, a commentary on the British Punitive Expedition into Benin in 1897 and its aftermath.
Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of Benin City, Nigeria.
British soldiers and sailors captured Benin, exiled its king and annexed the territory. They also made off with some of Africa’s greatest works of art. The ‘Benin Bronzes’ are now amongst the...
Olfert Dapper, a Dutch writer, describing Benin in his book Description of Africa (1668) The Kingdom of Benin, which occupied southern parts of present-day Nigeria between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, was rich in sculptures of diverse materials, such as iron, bronze, wood, ivory and terra cotta. The Oba's palace in Benin City, the site of production for the royal ancestral altars ...