Strewn with Loot
Adewale Maja-Pearce, 12 August 2021
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
by Dan Hicks.
Pluto, 368 pp., £20, November 2020,978 0 7453 4176 7 Show More
by Dan Hicks.
Pluto, 368 pp., £20, November 2020,
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes
by Barnaby Phillips.
Oneworld, 388 pp., £20, April,978 1 78607 935 0 Show More
by Barnaby Phillips.
Oneworld, 388 pp., £20, April,
“... marking an annual religious festival that demanded a period of isolation and self-denial. For Dan Hicks, curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, the violence that ensued was part of ‘a much bigger event’ which he calls World War Zero, dating from the partition of Africa in 1884 to the outbreak of the First World War. In this violent ... ”