Benin City’s $26mn Museum of West African Art — and why it was hit by protests

What was meant to be a celebratory moment for Nigeria’s art scene has instead highlighted present tension and past trauma ...
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A ruling over ownership of the Benin bronzes may delay their return

THE SACKING of Benin City by a heavily armed expeditionary force in February 1897 was said to be an act of revenge in a bitter trade dispute between Britain and the Kingdom of Benin, east of Lagos.
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The ancient city walls of Great Benin : colonialism, urban heritage and cultural identity in contemporary Nigeria Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan

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Sculpture: The Bronzes of Benin

One of the great changes in artistic vision of the 20th century was the shift from the classical ideals of Greek and Roman statuary to a larger view that accepted primitive art as no less human and as ...