Looking to the Past to Create the Future
Benin City is in turmoil following the disrupted opening of the new Museum of West African Art (MOWAA). Amid this intensifying debate, BBC Newsday and BBC World News: Focus on Africa asked the Restitution Study Group (RSG) to share our perspective on the Benin Bronzes, their origins, and their future. BBC WORLD NEWS INTERVIEWS 1. BBC World News: Focus …
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Restitution Study Group and The Met Celebrate Historical Strides The Restitution Study Group celebrates two historic breakthroughs in our global reparatory justice campaign. On May 31st, the Benin Kingdom Museum Bronze-Making Fellows completed the first-ever Oba Head born out of unity—a powerful act of ancestral remembrance, cultural skill, and community collaboration. The Fellowship was made …
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Benin bronzes should be entrusted to descendants of the enslaved Thank you for your editorial on the Benin bronzes (“At the Museum of Fine Arts, a chance for justice,” April 27). However, calling for the repatriation of the plundered artworks to Nigeria erases the descendants of the enslaved Africans whose lives paid for these artifacts. …
Listen to the NPR podcast: 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 …
Restitution Study Group Takes Corporate Complicity and Slavery to Cannes with Explosive New Film New York, NY – May 19, 2024 – The Restitution Study Group (RSG) is set to make waves at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival with their groundbreaking film, Dry Bones: Corporate Complicity and Slavery. The short documentary film trailer, financed by a …
THE STOLEN WEALTH OF SLAVERY: A Case for Slavery Reparations When journalist David Montero reached out to me a few years back to discuss my work exposing corporations complicit in slavery, I had no idea his book was aimed at building a case for reparations. I thought we had already done that. But Montero takes …
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