A Delicate Repair

The late Nigerian sculptor Erhabor Emokpae is perhaps best known for his bronze replica of the sixteenth-century ivory mask of Queen Idia, the kingdom of Benin’s premier iyoba, or queen mother. The year was 1977. Nigeria had attained political independence from Britain less than two decades earlier and been through a bitter civil war in […]

隨著大批貝寧青銅器從歐美博物館歸還，尼日利亞貝寧城新建的西非藝術博物館卻因王室、州政府與聯邦機構之間的歸屬之爭而在預展當天遭抗議並無限期關閉。文章追溯了1897年掠奪史與當代文物歸還運動，說明“回家”之後誰來接收、如何展示仍是未解難題。