Month: January 2022

Hari Kumar, January 2022 Note: Below is an excerpt of the full article. View/download the full document as a PDF via this link A short version of this article will be at Berlin Left blog in January 2022 __________ After much bluster the Berlin Humbold Forum finally agreed to return to Nigeria its collection of the ‘Benin Bronzes’. What role do the self-dubbed, ‘great’ museums of the Western world play in colonialism? What are these Bronzes, how did many end up in Berlin? What do we know about their return and the role of anti-colonial activists? World museums gloss over…