The brutish museums : the Benin bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution (engelsk)

Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of metal plaques and sculptures depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of Benin City, Nigeria. The story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. This book makes a case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.