BENIN CITY, Nigeria : A new guild of artists from Nigeria's Benin City has offered to donate artworks to the British Museum in London as a way to encourage it to return the priceless Benin Bronzes that were looted from the city's royal court by British troops in 1897.
"We never stopped making the bronzes even after those ones were stolen," said Osarobo Zeickner-Okoro, a founding member of the new guild and the instigator of the proposed donation."I think we make them even better now." Asked to comment on the offer, the British Museum said only that it was a matter for discussion between itself and the parties offering the objects.
It says on its website that its director, Hartwig Fischer, had an audience with the Oba, or king, of Benin in 2018"which included discussion of new opportunities for sharing and displaying objects from the Kingdom of Benin"."They must bring it back. It is not their father's property. The property belongs to the Oba of Benin," said bronze caster Chief Nosa Ogiakhia.
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