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Meeting of the HMIC, Alh. Lai Mohammed, The Exec. Gov. of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, Nigerian Amb. to Germany, Amb. Yusuf Tuggar with a German Delegation led by D.G, Culture and Communications, Federal Foreign office, Andres Gorgin on the repatriation of Benin Antiquities
REMARKS BY THE HONOURABLE MINISTER OF INFORMATION AND CULTURE, ALHAJI LAI MOHAMMED, DURING MEETING WITH THE GERMAN DELEGATION ON THE REPATRIATION OF BENIN ANTIQUITIES...IN ABUJA ON TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
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Let me formally welcome His Excellency, Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State. His presence here, though not scheduled, is a big boost to our ongoing efforts to repatriate the Benin Bronzes from all over the world.
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Here's a little message to anyone who buys unprovenanced, probably looted pre-Columbian antiquities (my animation is based on a set of unprovenanced Peruvian gold ornaments to be auctioned off my @ChristiesInc in June, ex. coll. Alsdorf: bit.ly/3cE3Tok)
These are so lovely, and so very probably ripped from a grave. ImageImage
This sale - christies.com/SaleLanding/in… - contains many antiquities without pre-1970* provenance. Here's a thread of some of them. (*although, given history of looting in the region, I don't consider even pre-1970 provenance as meaning you're in the clear, ethics-wise).
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