The Return of African Antiquities and the Ambiguity of the "Romantic" Colonial
Nigeria Magazine and the Benin and Ife Bronzes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4797597 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Terri Ochiagha (0000-0003-2367-238X, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-5768 • E-ISSN: 1532-5768 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/cch.2023.0008 |
| OpenAlex | W4366001073 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
The negotiations and returns achieved by restitution movements in the past five years have been rightly hailed as a paradigm shift. This article examines the first sustained fight for the return of looted African antiquities, emerged in the colonial periodical The Nigerian Teacher and bourgeoned in the pages of its successor, Nigeria, during the editorship of Edward Harland Duckworth. Alongside his fellow Education Officer Kenneth Murray, Duckworth antagonized pillagers and government alike. And yet, its ex-centricity notwithstanding, the colonial nature of Nigeria's intervention overrode its psychocultural potential
Ambiguity · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Government (linguistics · Intervention (counseling · Linguistics · Literature · Negotiation · Officer · Political science · Romance · Successor cardinal · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |