The most topical issue in the art world as it pertains to Africa is rooted in antiquity. In 1897, the British Army raided the Benin Kingdom in a so-called “punitive expedition” following the killing of James Robert Phillips, a British…
University of Aberdeen to return Benin Bronze to Nigeria “within weeks”
The University of Aberdeen said on Thursday it would return a Benin Bronze to Nigeria within weeks, one of the first public institutions to do so more than a century after Britain looted the sculptures and auctioned them to Western…