Africa

Off the Beaten Path: National Museum in Lagos

Who:

National Museum in Lagos, Nigeria

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Where:

National Museum, Lagos
Awolowo Rd (opp Muson Centre),
Onikan, Lagos Island.
Tel: +234 -1 263 6005

When:

Mon-Sat 9am – 5pm

What:

National Museum, Lagos

by Adeyemi Adisa via “Come to Nigeria

National Museum, Lagos

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Nigerian Art: Chiekwe and Caro

“Chiekwe and Caro” by Ben Enwonwu

“Nigerian Archaeologists Protest German Exhibition of Looted Art”

“Nigerian Archaeologists Protest German Exhibition of Looted Art”

By Zacharys Anger Gundu via “All Africa”

The Archaeological Association of Nigeria (Aan) presents a statement on the recent German Nok exhibition in Frankfurt.  They accuse the German curators of academic colonization of archaeology for failing to agree to the exhibition first being hosted on Nigerian soil and for several other breaches concerning the heritage of NigeriaFollowing years of controversial archaeological investigations in parts of the Nok valley by German scholars led by . . . .”

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