AUTHOR: KWAME OPOKU, DR.

As we stated in last year 39;s Restitution Day message, 39;On every Restitution Day,10 November, we shall take sto ...

lsquo;The return of the Benin Bronzes is not just about the objects themselves, but about a broader movement towards ...

ldquo;Humanity 39;s moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely... rdquo; - Cheikh Anta Diop, Civilizatio ...

Europe would have done better to tolerate the non-European civilizations at its side, leaving them alive, dynamic, a ...

lsquo;African art, like any great art, some would say, in any case, more than any other, and for a long time if n ...

ldquo;Gold gleams throughout the Ashanti story: one wonders in retrospect whether the punitive expedition would have ...

As we stated in last year 39;s Restitution Day message, 39;On every Restitution Day,10 November, we shall take sto ...

We were very surprised to read the following from a leading Nigerian newspaper reporting on a speech made by a German en ...

39;The looting of Benin City and Maqdala were British crimes then and now: it should be a matter of national shame ...

When I first saw the British Museum some decades ago, I was impressed, not to say overwhelmed, by the massive concrete s ...

There have been intense debates recently in Nigeria on the question of the ownership and custody of returned looted arte ...

One of the first things we learn about the Benin bronzes is that they were made for the Oba of Benin by a guild of b ...