For those still catching up on the ongoing battle over the Benin bronzes, NPR’s latest award winning Throughline podcast, “The Kingdom Behind the Glass,” delivers an insightful deep dive, featuring none other than Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, Executive Director of the Restitution Study Group along with other prominent voices in this battle — Ore Ogunbiyi, Africa correspondent for The Economist; Nwando Achebe, the Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History at Michigan State University; and Dan Hicks, professor of contemporary archaeology at the University of Oxford, and curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum.
This episode explores the complex history and legal fight surrounding these looted treasures, offering a compelling listen for anyone invested in cultural restitution.
But that’s not the full story. What NPR didn’t air is just as important. For the unfiltered, full-length interview with Deadria Farmer-Paellmann—including key insights that didn’t make the final cut— listen here:
Stay informed. Stay engaged. The fight for justice is far from over.
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