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.

FvckAllMods:
These guys really took everything from us

Nebes:
Did I read okuko?

onumadu:
BTW can anyone please tell me how to produce the under letter punctuation here?
Somehow I haven't learnt that!

OVB123:
Benin kingdom on the rise again. God bless edo state.

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.

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

Is this not Okuko ( fowl, cockerel) in Igbo language?

Bini copying Igbo or Igbo copying Bini.
Which is it really?
https://www.facebook.com/206270189411151/posts/4824157464289044/

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.

Mhimi007:
the pronunciation is quite different let me try explaining, it is quite tricky to explain in writing okay 'okhokho' is pronounced as 'hor-kor-kor' in Bini-Esan dialet as against 'or-ku-kor' of the igbos, I'm an Esan-Ibo person so I think I have slight ideas about this...hope I tried

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.

Bobmarie:
Whats amazing here is you claim to be old, yet you threw the first insult at my mom. Do you think being illiterate is an insult? How do you use words? Did you go to school?
You cannot even tell that not being literate is not an insult, it just means a lack of education or ignorance about a particular subject but typical black man doesn’t understand words and feels he has been insulted so he has to respond by insulting my mom.

Oga get down from your high horse, hide your
dick, DO YOU KNOW ME or what I do for living? Did I call your family members in this? Old man with little sense, maturity is very far from you. Your new age obviously still dey shack you, you wan dey form mature online dey call everybody you see pikin.

Go return your school fees because even a mentally challenged person is smarter than you.

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

Mftivi:
do you know how many years they have kept that sculpture before oyibo stole it ? Sometimes you just have to think deep. This only shows that we would have been better off without their interference cos if we couldn't preserve our sculptures then they wouldn't have met anything to steal!

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.

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.

Bobmarie:


What's amazing here is I claim to be old, yet here I am an mgbeke with dirty panties hurling insults at someone I barely know. Did I go to school? Obviously not.

I need to get down from my high horse, hide my vagina that stinks like a rotten fish. DO YOU KNOW ME or what I do for living? I am an haggard woman with little sense, maturity is very far from me and my family members. My new age obviously still dey shack me, I wan dey form mature online dey call everybody I see pikin.

I need to go return my school fees because even a mentally challenged person is smarter than I am. Just check my profile picture and see that I'm good for nothing but prostitution which is my main job anyway.

That's why I'm still unmarried till now and I'll probably remain a spinster for life. Blame my mom for that.

SonOfEl:


Okuko..... Sounds igbo to me

tamdun:

Akukọ =cock

Nebes:
Did I read okuko?

onumadu:


Okay o
Touche!

Unseen:



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

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.

bcomputer101:
God bless Oba of Benni.



One of the servant of Oduduwa

eagleu:


Cambridge university has it as Okukor.
It was Okukor before the civil war, now it's okhokho. Thank God it's not Rokukor!

SonOfEl:


Okuko..... Sounds igbo to me

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.

onumadu:


It is still neither here nor there because the punctuation under the "O" is purely Igbo.
And in Igbo it means "Chicken".

234tunji:



With this mindset, we are near finished as a people. Overzealous youth killed European emissaries .. What was the business of European emissaries on African soil. Is it now a crime to turn down a nagging visitor in your own house?

Where no emissary was killed by the natives, what prompted the Europeans to subvert the existing system for their selfish gains? It is obvious the Marauders and the civilized crooks were looking for opportunities to loot