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| Titre : |
"We shall be telling our own stories" : Bernie Grant, the Africa Reparations Movement, and the Restitutions of the Benin Bronzes |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Cresa L. Pugh, Auteur |
| Année de publication : |
2022 |
| Article en page(s) : |
p. 143-166 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Résumé : |
During the 1990s, Labour Party MP Bernie Grant and the Africa Reparations Movement (ARM-UK) debated the fate of a collection of artefacts in British museums that had been plundered from the Kingdom of Benin by British forces in 1897. This collection became a prism through which links between entitlement to cultural heritage, constructions of national identity, and claims to historical memory were understood. This paper traces the efforts of Grant and his colleagues working with ARM-UK to reveal the forms of cultural and political power that the Benin bronzes carried with them in the postcolonial context. By contesting the ownership of these objects, the parties appropriated the meaning of the bronzes to signal their commitment to their ideological, political, and moral viewpoints. Alongside transnational political activists, Grant and his colleagues advocated for the repatriation of the bronzes and renewed the discourse on the state of neocolonial relations between Britain and Nigeria. |
in Politique Africaine > N°165 (2022/1) . - p. 143-166
[article] "We shall be telling our own stories" : Bernie Grant, the Africa Reparations Movement, and the Restitutions of the Benin Bronzes [texte imprimé] / Cresa L. Pugh, Auteur . - 2022 . - p. 143-166. Langues : Anglais ( eng) in Politique Africaine > N°165 (2022/1) . - p. 143-166
| Résumé : |
During the 1990s, Labour Party MP Bernie Grant and the Africa Reparations Movement (ARM-UK) debated the fate of a collection of artefacts in British museums that had been plundered from the Kingdom of Benin by British forces in 1897. This collection became a prism through which links between entitlement to cultural heritage, constructions of national identity, and claims to historical memory were understood. This paper traces the efforts of Grant and his colleagues working with ARM-UK to reveal the forms of cultural and political power that the Benin bronzes carried with them in the postcolonial context. By contesting the ownership of these objects, the parties appropriated the meaning of the bronzes to signal their commitment to their ideological, political, and moral viewpoints. Alongside transnational political activists, Grant and his colleagues advocated for the repatriation of the bronzes and renewed the discourse on the state of neocolonial relations between Britain and Nigeria. |
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