Asiwaju9ja:


I like your crass analogy. However, Igbo people does not know anything about Bronze Casting. Only Clay and Wood carving. To this day, there's a street in Benin(Igun) that specializes in Bronze work. It's a known occupation of the Binis for Centuries. Just as the ijaws are fishermen, fulanis cattle rearers aka herdsmen.

johnmartus:
Hope bini come back to their sources oduduwa is our progenitor.

Myer:


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

Stephenomozzy:
Amazing as they got the 'intonation' in the spelling too... ;



Wetin concern 'yoruba' punctuation for Benin sculpture ni;

In Benin "Okhokho" generally means "Fowl/Chicken"... Okporu - means Cockerel; "Iyo-okho" means hen (asin mama fowl); and "ovibo-okho" naim be small chicks.

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.

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

TheManhattan:
Give the artefact 3 months.

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.

Mayflowa:


You need to understand why this loot happened. Some overzealous edo youths killed emissaries from England. It was a thoughtless and needless massacre because Oba would not receive any visitor during Igue celebrations! One of them managed to escape. At the time, edo people though jazz and juju will save and fight for them. They believed they were invincible until they saw gun fire and bombs. Wait! Wouldn't you have avenge your countrymen dead?

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.

TripleOh7:


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?

martineverest:
but the artefact was in Benin palace for hundreds of years b4 British soldiers stole it....what's your point?

Asiwaju9ja:


You are hoping against hope. You just rightly foresee the future. You be Nostradamus?

Lewisalexander:


Frustration wan finish my mama. Smh

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, ....

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.

EdoDefence:



Punch news wrongly spelt it, we call it ọkhọkhọ

slowice:
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.

Qualer:
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:
Please do your overgrown self a favor and don’t mention me again without factoids of what they ‘stole’ from us, what race has not been stolen from? Everyone else has gotten over the bloody past and are competing to be the greatest race remembered. Black people are still talking of a time their parents didn’t see.

Historic illiterates everywhere.

johndwayy:


So because Christianity came from the whites, that's why we Africans lost our purpose?? Did we have any purpose before? Christianity actually brought light to Africans and exposure too. We would have been worse than this if not for the white man and his religion.

2real52:

"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

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/

Vultron101:
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.

TripleOh7:
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You must be mentally challenged to be referring to me that way.

Package your insults and present them to your parents who refused to raise you right. They deserve it.

Hopefully they have enough sense to take away that phone from you before you hurt yourself.

Ode.

God punish my mother.