humblenature:


"The greatest fraud/theft the world has ever know was perpetrated by the romans and the British"

Pls Britain, bring back all our stolen artifacts. You are still keeping thousands of them.

Is it your own?. Ehn answer me?

You took us slavery, took our territory and now you give us freedom. True Freedom is not given.

If we are free then why are you still stealing from us?... Why can't you leave us alone?

Must we be gay like you?.. Is it by force? You also want to steal our morality?

Please you have your own sculptors.. Pls return our piece of art before I.......

Xisnin:
They weren't stolen, they were war booties and with all booties, the winner takes all.
If taken war booties was a crime then Benin kingdom is guilty for taking same from their
weaker neighbours while also imposing permanent levies on them.

MrsNwaAmaikpe:


Honestly, those artworks look beautiful and adorable in the British Museum.

Nevertheless, anything stolen by a thief no matter its worth, will be worth less in the palace of the thief



Return those art works to Benin and watch them glitter with importance and value

jboy73:
Yes.
They should be left there.
We can't manage them... If they were in Africa, by now it would have been used as fire food to roast bush meat.

Sarkin:
Or sold.

IPOB AND CRIMES...

SINCE 1804 THEY HAVE BEEN SELLING THEIR PEOPLE AND EVEN THEMSELVES.

Sarkin:
Or sold.

IPOB AND CRIMES...

SINCE 1804 THEY HAVE BEEN SELLING THEIR PEOPLE AND EVEN THEMSELVES.

godfatherx:
Was it stolen or made a gift by the Oba of Benin?
I'm sure the Oba in council are aware of the presence of those artifacts at the museum. Do some background check before crying wolf.

ariesbull:
It wasn't stolen pls...it was a war booty and that is what it is...thank Lord it's even there...if it was here...we wouldn't have managed it well


Let's be honest....go to Benin musuem today and cry

NdiaraIGBO:


Oga park well.

IPOB and these artifacts are not connected. That part of Nigeria was so primitive and animalistically too savage to produce sophisticated artifacts that were only found in Oyo empire, All over north and Benin.

You dey point to people wey no get king, or governance system of any kind. Obi of Onitcha was created by the British to hide the shame of the hamlet dwellers. You no see as dem dey behave?

Cc Immhotep lzaa

erico2k2:

exactly, this is very well documented here. however it should be noted that these where not stolen by the British govt but private merchants who sailed across the world. The came back the GB with whatever the find and sell to the man on the streets back then. If you refuse to hand over you get shot. Same tactic the Germans used against eh Jews in terms of their paintings etc!

dfrost:


This had got to be the best comment coming from a Nairalander.

. Honestly I don't see us managing those artifacts. Common pothole that we see everyday, we can't manage. Talk more of artifacts that we don't see everyday.

freeDR:

You spoke from a place of ignorance.

NdiaraIGBO:


Oga park well.

IPOB and these artifacts are not connected. That part of Nigeria was so primitive and animalistically too savage to produce sophisticated artifacts that were only found in Oyo empire, All over north and Benin.

You dey point to people wey no get king, or governance system of any kind. Obi of Onitcha was created by the British to hide the shame of the hamlet dwellers. You no see as dem dey behave?

Cc Immhotep lzaa

musicwriter:


The different European countries commissioned and funded what was called ''chartered companies'' to do the dirty jobs for them.

Chartered companies were companies that received certain rights and privileges under a special charter issued by the sovereign of a European state. This charter usually gave the company a nationally recognized trading monopoly for a specific geographic area and for specific trade items, and the right to use force to open and maintain trade. Dominant in the 17th and 18th centuries during the era of the ”scramble for Africa''. The nationally funded chartered companies were indispensable tools for the opening of Africa to European commercial and imperial ambition.

So, Britain was the one stealing.

See Chattered companies, how Europe laid the foundation for poverty in Africa http://www.africason.com/2017/11/how-western-nations-laid-foundation-for.html

humblenature:


"The greatest fraud/theft the world has ever know was perpetrated by the romans and the British"

Pls Britain, bring back all our stolen artifacts. You are still keeping thousands of them.

Is it your own?. Ehn answer me?

You took us slavery, took our territory and now you give us freedom. True Freedom is not given.

If we are free then why are you still stealing from us?... Why can't you leave us alone?

Must we be gay like you?.. Is it by force? You also want to steal our morality?

Please you have your own sculptors.. Pls return our piece of art before I.......

OneKinGuy:
Returning it back to Nigeria will just add more spiritual problems for us. Lets just leave it there for the time being

Printerscanner:


Is it creating problems for the British?

erico2k2:

DId you do Social Sturdies in JSS3?if U did you would have been taught the various kingdoms in West Africa and how they had their own Rules and Laws B4 the British came. Ofcos the Igbos had their own kingdoms and trade arrangement, Igbo is just like Yoruba and Hausa and Fulanis.

godfatherx:
Was it stolen or made a gift by the Oba of Benin?
I'm sure the Oba in council are aware of the presence of those artifacts at the museum. Do some background check before crying wolf.

Ade3000yrs:
are you guy going back to d stone age or what? all these nonsense are nothing but art craft. i can make 200,000 of something similar if commissioned. what we need is technological aides and advancement exhibition, IT, industrial and Warcrafts like you have in the USA, China, Russia and Japan. Who cares about counter productive art work in this civilized and modern age? we should be talking technology and not all this useless art work as a misplacement of priority.

"To me this is a misinformation of the transmission of the ambitiousness and missionlessness of the confusion in our nation." May all these art junks wrath away with the white man.

NdiaraIGBO:


Lies from hell!!!!

tamethem:
Let them keep them. Each of those artifacts worth millions of Euro. Release it to Naija and they start missing from our collections.

Maintenance Culture here is Zero. Can we give them such world class care they are given there.

I love my country but our leaders suck.

Keep them for us till we have good reasonable Leaders who are sincere and Focused.

Sarkin:
Or sold.
IPOB AND CRIMES...
SINCE 1804 THEY HAVE BEEN SELLING THEIR PEOPLE AND EVEN THEMSELVES.

Sarkin:
Or sold.
IPOB AND CRIMES...
SINCE 1804 THEY HAVE BEEN SELLING THEIR PEOPLE AND EVEN THEMSELVES.

OneKinGuy:
Returning it back to Nigeria will just add more spiritual problems for us. Lets just leave it there for the time being