yesterday was the 124-year anniversary of the sacking of Benin City by a British naval force 
you can find the the 110,000-word version of this thread here >> plutobooks.com/9780745341767/…
The 125th anniversary of the Sacking of Benin City will fall a year from now, on 18 February 2022.
A generation on from the efforts made around restitution for the centenary in 1997, not least by Bernie Grant @BGTrust — let's ask how progress can be made in the next 12 months
A generation on from the efforts made around restitution for the centenary in 1997, not least by Bernie Grant @BGTrust — let's ask how progress can be made in the next 12 months
We still have a few free copies of this book to donate to public,school, college and university libraries in Nigeria.
If you know of some Nigerian institutions we haven't yet donated copies to, my DMs are open
If you know of some Nigerian institutions we haven't yet donated copies to, my DMs are open
some more context here >>
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1324648906093977600?s=20
there's some more info on the book-length version of this argument here >> danhicks.uk/brutishmuseums
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