EUROPE’S COLONIAL DEBTS REMAIN AS NETHERLANDS RETURNS 119 BENIN BRONZES IN PARTIAL PAYMENT
By Augustine Eigbe, Ph.D. The 1897 British invasion of Benin Kingdom stands as one of colonialism’s most brazen acts of cultural dismemberment, a military assault that simultaneously functioned as a calculated campaign of epistemicide When British forces burned the Benin Royal Palace under Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi and looted thousands of...
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