Will Britain return Nigeria’s stolen treasures?
I keep running across articles about the various stolen items Britain has in its museums. (As you definitely know already, that one scene in Black Panther was notttttt a work of fiction.) The scale of the problem seems utterly and infuriatingly vast…
However there is a petition!
Return Africa’s Treasures – Heal Britain’s Dark Colonial Past
started by beauty queen Vicky Ngari-Wilson, regarding the Maqdala Treasures:
However, the V&A want to ‘shine a light’ on this tragic story with
an exhibition this April 2018, because finally they are ‘open to the
idea’ of sending the treasures back to Ethiopia – but only on borrowed
time due to the laws! This is extremely undermining and insulting to the
Ethiopian community.
And there was also a petition about the Benin bronzes (the specific treasures in the linked article) but it’s been taken down.
And here’s more information in general:
We Will Show You Looted Benin Bronzes But Will Not Give Them Back: Second Defeat And Permanent Humiliation For Benin?
British Museum wants to loan back to Nigeria “stolen” bronze statues
So, ur, I guess a tl;dr:
-Museums are in general awesome
-British museums, def not so much
-We would prefer 100% less stolen artifacts, and perhaps more dinosaurs instead.
