June
25
/ 2025
Most Western powers, particularly in western Europe, have time and again been forced to confront their grisly colonial pasts – raping, pillaging, looting, was a general feature of this period. In a bid towards making reparations and righting some past wrongs, the Netherlands too has joined the long list of apologists. In February, it’d been reported that they’d decided to return over 100 stolen artifacts by the British, back to Nigeria. This has now been set in motion, officially. Beautifully sculpted by expert craftsmen from Benin City, in what is now southwestern Nigeria, the Benin Bronzes had been desperately craving a return home, languishing in colonial museums all over the world for the past almost 130 years. These 5,000 odd
