COLUMNIST: KWAME OPOKU, DR.

Once In The British Museum, Always In The British Museum: Is The De-Accession Policy Of The British Museum A Farce?

May 11, 2008 | Feature Article

Queen-mother Idia, Benin/Nigeria, now in the British Museum. (1) Seized by the British during the invasion of Be ...

Mask pwo or mwana pwo, Chokwe, Angola. Ethnology Museum, Berlin.

Why Do Europeans, Even Intellectuals, Have Difficulty In Contemplating The Resti...

Apr 27, 2008 | Feature Article

Universal culture can only be achieved when all cultures are able and free to make their contribution but this cannot be ...

Seated person. Nok cultural object, 500 BC - 500 AD. Quai Branly, depot of Louvre, inv.No.70.1998.11. One of the three stolen items from Nigeria now in Paris.

Does The Demand For The Restitution Of Stolen African Cultural Objects Constitut...

Apr 21, 2008 | Feature Article

Reference is made to the letter from Philippe de Montebello, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1), New York, w ...

Priest with a gong. Benin, Nigeria. Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin.

Is The Absence Of A Formal Demand For Restitution A Ground For Non-Restitution?

Apr 14, 2008 | Feature Article

The restitution of those cultural objects which our museums and collections, directly or indirectly, possess thanks to ...

European And American Museums And The Question Of Copyright In Stolen African Cu...

Apr 14, 2008 | Feature Article

We have in previous articles raised the issue of copyright in stolen African cultural objects that are now in European ...

Six million people visit the British museum every year, making it Londons greatest tourist attraction.

Will The British Museum Ever Modify Its Claim To Be Unquestionable Legal Owner O...

Apr 6, 2008 | Feature Article

For those who are hoping that the British Museum may reconsider its position on the Parthenon/Elgin Marbles and adopt a ...

Is Legality Still A Viable Concept For European And American Museum Directors?

Apr 3, 2008 | Feature Article

We are reading almost on a daily basis some comment or reply by a European or an American museum director in defence of ...

British Museum Director Avoids Africans Requesting To Discuss Restitution Of Sto...

Apr 1, 2008 | Feature Article

It is becoming increasingly clear that many of the European museum directors are not very convinced of the soundness of ...

Nefertiti, Idia And Other African Icons In European Museums: The Thin Edge Of Eu...

Mar 24, 2008 | Feature Article

I was once asked by someone, who was aware of my view that African art objects in European museums should in principle ...

Benin In Berlin: A Successful Reconciliation Of The Aesthetic And The Ethnologic...

Mar 19, 2008 | Feature Article

The exhibition, BENIN, 600 YEARS OF COURTLY ART FROM NIGERIA, Museum of Ethnology, Berlin, 7 February 2008-25 May 2008, ...

Why Do European Museums Have So Much Trouble With African Bones?

Mar 1, 2008 | Feature Article

The contested human remains in Western museums were collected at a time of gross inequality of power. A power that we n ...

A Blank Cheque To Plunder Nok Terra Cotta?

Feb 24, 2008 | Feature Article

In his interview of January 27, 2008 with Richard Lacayo, A Talk With: James Cuno http://www.elginism.com/20080201/976 ...

Holders Of Illegal Cultural Objects Alarmed By Growing Demands For Restitution.

Feb 16, 2008 | Feature Article

It is simply amazing how Eurocentric and selfish many of the arguments of the defenders of plunder and stealing of other ...

Remembering Amilcar Cabral, Poet, Revolutionary, Politician And Military Strateg...

Feb 15, 2008 | Feature Article

A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if, without complexes and without und ...

Benin In Paris: Triumph Of The Aesthetic Over The Ethnological?

Feb 14, 2008 | Feature Article

The general impression we got from the Benin Exhibition, now in Paris until 6 January 2008, was that on the premises of ...

Benin To Berlin Ethnologisches Museum: Are Benin Bronzes Made In Berlin?

Feb 13, 2008 | Feature Article

Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Benin bronzes burnt in Berlin? Berlin boasts 482 Benin bronzes but Benin bleeds badly. ...

Namibian Bones In European Museums. How Long Are The Dead To Remain Unburied? Ge...

Feb 12, 2008 | Feature Article

I, the great general of the German troops, send this letter to the Herero people... All Hereros must leave this land... ...

Kwame Opoku, Dr.

Former Legal Adviser, United Nations Office, Vienna.. More Dr. Kwame Opoku writes about looted cultural objects

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