During war and colonisation, Western nations participated in the theft of thousands of pieces of African art. In November 1906, around 170 British soldiers launched what that country’s parliament called a “punitive expedition” against the town for carrying out annual raids along British trade routes in Borno state. But curator labels available online about the background of the items at …
A pair of sacred statues that a Nigerian museum commission and protesters said were looted during the country’s 1960s civil war fetched $239,000 at auction in Paris on Monday. A Princeton University scholar, Chika Okeke-Agulu, alongside Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments, raised alarms this month that the objects were looted during the Biafran war in the late 1960s. …
