The London History Show: the Benin plaques

Hello everyone. We are currently exploring the British Museum, and this includes a lot of world cultures that were unfamiliar to me, such as that of the Kingdom of Benin. As such, I'm sure there are many good sources that are inaccessible to me or that I haven't found here during my lockdown in London. I've given my sources below, but if you have any others that give a different perspective, let me know.

On a related note, there are several words in this one that I've only seen written out, so if you know the pronunciations better than me, let me know in the comments. I'm already pretty sure I was wrong about Erediauwa.

In this video we look at pieces of African art stolen from the British Museum commonly known as the "Benin Bronzes".

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Sources and further reading:
Akenzua, E. 2000. The case of Benin. https://tinyurl.com/ybm78jwt
Benin Dialogue Group, 2018. Declaration. https://tinyurl.com/ybr9c98k
Royal Museum of Benin. https://beninroyalmuseum.org/
British Museum, 2015. Benin: an African kingdom. https://tinyurl.com/ybsent5z
Curnow, K. 2008. Courtly Intrigues: Jostling for Main Power in the Art and Life of Nigeria's Benin Kingdom. https://tinyurl.com/y9yq33pt
Her Majesty's Government. 1963. British Museum Act (section 5). https://tinyurl.com/ybgdy2un
McGregor, N. 2010. A history of the world in 100 objects. https://tinyurl.com/gvuv2rz
Monks, K. 2018. British Museum to return Benin bronzes to Nigeria. https://tinyurl.com/yaxb7dl2
Otzen, E. 2015. The man who returned his grandfather's looted works of art. https://tinyurl.com/ybeckwmh
Raicovich, L. 2019. A museum's complicated attempt to repatriate a bronze from Benin. https://tinyurl.com/yc8tu8sd
Ronu Creative. 2018. Kingdom of Benin. https://tinyurl.com/ycneje3b

00:00 Introduction
03:02 The Kingdom of Benin
04:59 Art
1:02 p.m. The British expedition
14:56 What next?

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