One day for the thief’s another day for the owner

My dad is from Benin, a son of a chief, never did much with what he was entitled to lost it all, because people are crooks and he is rather simple, he had two bronze heads stolen from him from a relative on my mother's side.

There is power in every single spiritual artifact (from ancient Egypt to 19th century Benin) stolen from Afrika, that's why they don't want to return them. Take everything spiritual artifact out of the MET, The Vatican, British French and German institutions/museums out and back to Afrika, and watch those countries fall in less than a decade.

Look at that street art – do you think thats respectful to Britain? It, is not. Maybe, as usual these days they will be pressured by their own well wishers to return some art which is perfectly fine where it is – respect is a two way street so practice it and it has proven to pay off. This sort of thing happens all over the world – when ppl travel they see something that they believe needs to be seen by others as a sign of high admiration – when your energy and affluence brings you around the globe be humble enough to attain some great souvenirs and by doing so honor that country and yours. 1

The brass in the statues came from bracelets made by the Portuguese used to trade with black slave traders for black slaves. Slavery continued in Benin long after slavery had been abolished in Britain (the first country in the world to outlaw slavery). Britain was trying to end slavery in Benin, as well as the awful practise of human sacrifice, when it’s trade delegation to Benin were slaughtered. That’s why Britain responded by invading. Britain is why there is no slave trade there now. No human sacrifice. And we left a large modern city in its place when we left 60 years ago.

I remember going to the British Museum in London and then finding out there was nothing british about the things there. It's full of stolen antiquities from other people. There was room after room full of African, Islamic, Egyptian, Greek, Indian, Buddhist art. These people don't have a civilisation worth documenting so to make up for it they stole others' people's achievements.

I am author of several books. In one of them: The Great Wall of Africa: The Empire of Benin’s 10,000 Mile Long Wall, I also discuss the stolen Benin Bronzes worth more than $14 Billion. I am glad that some of these are being returned. They don’t need the originals in Europe, replicas will be fine. I also wrote The Real Wakandas of Africa and The Real Vibranium of Africa (by Maurice Miles Martinez). Most people are unaware that African people built a wall before transatlantic slavery in the Benin empire that is one of the most massive structures in the world. At 10,000 miles long, the Great Wall of Africa contains more material than all of the buildings in New York City’s Manhattan. If cut into 1 meter high blocks, it would wrap around the equator more than 65 times! It is arguably the planet’s greatest man-made structure. Yet, it has been ignored by historians. In my book The Great Wall of Africa: The Empire of Benin’s 10,000 Mile Long Wall, I explore the dimensions of the wall, the history of the Benin Empire’s Kings (Obas) and the stolen Benin Bronzes. These treasures that sit in the world’s museums amount to more than $14 Billion. Most people who read this book are left wondering why they never heard about the Great Wall of Africa in their history classes. The world needs more videos on this topic.

Maurice Miles Martinez

This has got to be a joke. The culture secretary was saying a whole bunch of nothing

IT WAS A PAINFUL EXPERIENCE IN THE HISTORY OF BENIN KINGDOM A KINGDOM ALREADY ESTABLISH RELATIONSHIP WITH PORTUGUESS AMBASSADOR HAS BEEN EXCHANG BEFORE THE EVIL BRITISH FORCES INVADED THE KINGDOM BUT TODAY BENIN HAS BEEN JOIN WITH CORRUPT CRIMINAL ORGINAZATION CALL ONE NIGERIA MAY GOD ALMIGHT BLESS EDO PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD AMEN

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Rückgabe geraubter Kunstgegenstände und Entschuldigung durch Deutschland in Nigeria? Frau Baerbock, war Nigeria nicht britische Kolonie? Hatten nicht die Engländer diese Kunstgegenstände geraubt und u.a. an deutsche Museen verkauft? Wieso entschuldigen wir uns für die Engländer? Und, dürfen die Engländer die Kohle behalten, die sie für ihre geraubten Kunstgegenstände kassierten? Es wäre doch nur angemessen, wenn die Engländer ihren durch Raub erzielten Gewinn ebenfalls Nigeria zur Verfügung stellen und beispielsweise den Bau und den Betrieb der offensichtlich nicht vorhandenen, sicheren Museen stecken! Aber nein, statt dessen kutschieren unsere grünen Spitzenministerinnen::innen diese wertvollen Kunstgegenstände in eine Gegend, wo es nur Bruchbuden, Schlammlöcher und Bürgerkrieg gibt.

What a load of racist tosh from the British Museum.

Theu properly reside in the british museum? Are you crazy?????

He’s a lying pouffe “developed collection” he means we stole them fair and square

I say let the British Museum keep the artifacts because it’s black people job to be creative just don’t let them take anything moving forward in my opinion