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African antiquities: time to return the loot
The British Museum still refuses to follow countries such as France in returning artefacts stolen during the colonial era — this enables white supremacy and the belief that Africans were too primitive to be able to produce great works of art, argues ROGER McKENZIE
A Benin Bronze plaque on display in the British Museum
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A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
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AN early scene in the iconic hit movie Black Panther shows the anti-hero, Killmonger, in a museum arguing that an artefact was not made by the Fula tribe as advertised but instead had been taken by British soldiers in Benin and was from the kingdom of Wakanda. A work of fiction informed by fact.
Earlier on this year the government of Germany at last agreed to return to Nigeria its share of the priceless artefacts that were stolen from the kingdom of Benin in 1897.
These treasures, the Benin Bronzes, were looted by the British from the ancient kingdom of Benin. Situated in what is now Nigeria, the kingdom was razed to the ground by the British in retaliation for the killing of a British force a year earlier that had tried to capture the ruler, known as the Oba.
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