Stolen artefacts

“It is indeed unfortunate that so much Nok material has been looted over time to supply the international market. Properly excavated, such pieces might have shed valuable light on the Nok culture,” Ekpo Eyo [1]

‘We, Europeans, who have received and transmitted and continue to transmit these objects, are on the side of the conquerors. To a certain extent, this is also a ‘heritage that weighs us down’. But there is no fatality.

Gold jewel of two crocodiles, Baule, Ivory Coast, now in Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France.