See how that piece is looking clean and well maintained like it was made last year.
By the time you see that thing in another two years, it will be covered in brown dust and chipped off at various edges.
That has been my worry with this clamour for 'return our artefacts'. Where and how are they going to store/keep them so that it will be available like it is now in another 150 years

If the Oyibo man didn't take them, by now there wouldn't have been any artefact to speak of. I have been to a few of the museums in Europe and seen the way they keep and take care of these pieces (these are people's well-paid full time jobs), some of them have not left glass casings in a climate controlled environment for more than a century and it shows in the piece above. The Ife art pieces in the British museum look like they were made two/three years ago and people pay a gate pass of more than 10pounds to view them when they are on exhibition.

Well, let's see how it goes sha... I'm hoping they prove me wrong.

Bobmarie:
You tell him what? Two olodos. Stolen art is the reason black people are dead last place.

K.

We are such a pitiful lot. Would these guys have accorded this relic any respect if it wasn't originally stolen? The culture they have and are born with, do they even accord that any respect? Instead they will be following pastor up and dan.

valirex:
Iyare iyare, Ọba gha tọ kpẹre isẹ.

Sovereign Kingdom of Benin loading

The ANCIENT CITY OF BENIN, WHERE THE KING IS TRULY KING. Uhmogun gha to kpere ise.

EdoDefence:
Cambridge's Jesus College Returns Benin Artefact, The Ọkhọkhọ

Jesus College, Cambridge has returned a looted artefact, The Ọkhọkhọ to the palace of the Oba of Benin, where it was stolen in 1897 and been returned to the Palace of the Ọba of Benin.

Credit: Twitter | shailafennel, JesusCollegeCam


https://www.facebook.com/206270189411151/posts/4824157464289044/

Any artefacts returned to Africa is the exact replica.... And never the original. Don't be deceived

EdoDefence:



Punch news wrongly spelt it, we call it ọkhọkhọ

Did you read the line at all. When you will not pay attention to what you read.
Always fighting for FTC.
Impatience generation.

EdoDefence:



Punch news wrongly spelt it, we call it ọkhọkhọ

it's okuko in igbo

So of what benefits will this make to a Nigerian/Edo man?

onumadu:


Just wondering ... what is the meaning of "Akuko" in Yoruba? In Igbo it means "story".

For the topic, if this chicken sculpture tagged "Ọkhọkhọ"does not show that Edo is Igbo, I wonder what else is left.

it's Okuko not Akuko. Okuko means chicken. Igbo Artifact stolen from Igboland and re-stolen from Bini. Since Oyibo has made their own restitution, Benin Kingdom should follow suit. Let's give to Ceasar what belong to Ceasar.

Give the artefact 3 months.

Seeing this act automatically makes me believe the Nollywood depiction " The invasion, 1897"





Though an engineering student, think that movie was a cock and bull story of Oba Ovoramiwhen of Benin Empire. Thank God it's white, if it were to be our brothers from north, they would have sold the artefacts and add it to their oil revenue

Nebes:
Did I read okuko?

yes u did bro�

Malawian:
Now to Bini people, do you prefer your Oba hoards these artifacts in his Palace, or your Governor builds a museum for it so all Bini people can have access to see them?

Well all I know is in Edo state, the Oba is the law, so if Obaseki does not want to start flying at night without broom, ....

Artefacts should have been placed on loan to the American university where it can generate us dollar revenue for Bini people.

With it just seating in the Obas palace, it will be gathering dust.

FvckAllMods:
These guys really took everything from us

"took everything from us" is understating the fact. They rubbed us of our life and soul. They rubbed us of our tradition and culture. Now, if you are not a Christian or a Muslim, you are definitely a demon. If you dare think of marrying more than one wife, you are a demon. Etc.. May liberation find us

They should ve left these sculptures in the clime where there values will be intact and high. We all want to applauds this though we all know its useless to us.... Let's focus on dealing with the poverty and high cost of commodity ravaging the land first, tackle poor quality leadership before pursuing things like this.

If these weren't plundered by the whites, most of them would be dust by now.. The value it has today is the value given to it by the same white people.

After they will say yahoo boys are stealing from them. While they are the real yahoo boys. These whites sef

Atiwaye:
Akuko is what they turn to okhokoh.this bini people are too stubborn why they can't go back to their kinsmen in southwest.

Lol
On the contrary it was the SW that migrated from Benin. That's why we share so many words and ways.

The reason òkhòkhò sounds familiar to the yoruba and igbo and other tribes is because you are all descendants of the great bini empire. You were all under bini colony.

Nebes:
Did I read okuko?

I doubt if that thing was from Benin.

Benis don't call okuko.

FvckAllMods:
These guys really took everything from us

shut up no be the things dem dey return so, the one wey your pur people theif if una don return am.

I thought Africans had jazz?

How come we were looted for everything we've got and the jazz didn't stop the white people?

Lmao.

Bobmarie:
You tell him what? Two olodos. Stolen art is the reason black people are dead last place.

So you think it's only sculptures they stole from the black man?

So many kids running around Nairaland lately. What's going on?

Seun ki lon sele now?

Illuminatiship:
Obaseki plan na to finish Edo before him tenure finish..

Obaseki na the most useless thing for Edo State right now.

Myer:


Lol
On the contrary it was the SW that migrated from Benin. That's why we share so many words and ways.

So the whole migrated from the part?

Interesting logic.

Guide777:
it's Okuko not Akuko. Okuko means chicken. Igbo Artifact stolen from Igboland and re-stolen from Bini. Since Oyibo has made their own restitution, Benin Kingdom should follow suit. Let's give to Ceasar what belong to Ceasar.

Give us the year and month it was stolen from Igboland by the Bini.

We are waiting for when "artifacts" stolen from Igboland by the whites will be returned. That should convince some skeptics that Igbo civilization existed before the whites came, yeah?

Until then, don't use style to claim some other people's artifacts.

CountVersailles:
We are such a pitiful lot. Would these guys have accorded this relic any respect if it wasn't originally stolen? The culture they have and are born with, do they even accord that any respect? Instead they will be following pastor up and dan.

And why do you think that is? Isn't the loss of cultural values due to the advent of the whites?

tujays:
told us lies that our god is evil and theirs is good. stole our spiritual gods and gave us the Bible which is their god. ever since then we've lost our purpose as humans, been confused and at war with each other till date. The mental slavery/Inferiority complex in which an average black person is suffering from is story for another day.

why didn't you mention the Formal education they brought to us, the financial aid they have be giving to your dead government for years now na the bad wey dem do una, una dey first see as if una no dey do bad. You are mentally dotish.

Unseen:



Any artefacts returned to Africa is the exact replica.... And never the original. Don't be deceived

You might be right.

I learnt that the ancient mystical staff of Oranmiyan in Ile Ife is actually a replica and the real thing is somewhere overseas.

FvckAllMods:
These guys really took everything from us

They didn't take it from you.

Your forefathers sold them for some token of smoking pipes and mirrors.

Top notch care. I am mesmerize with their capacity to keep artefacts of over 100yrs ,intact and appealing. I doubt if African themselves can maintain longetivity of this Okuko for so long. Looking from another perspective of security and maintenance of artefacts.

Our forefathers where just too creative.
How someone was able to carve that gorgeous looking cock from a wood is beyond words

They used religion to brainwash and rape our land, and yet many are still killing themselves in the name of the same religion.... Ignorance....