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…
Stolen artefacts should be returned to Oba of Benin -SANs, historians, Benin leaders
As the controversy over where thousands of artefacts taken from the palace of the Oba of Benin in 1897 by the Europeans should be domiciled rages, Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs), historians and leaders in Benin kingdom have said the…