Repatriation

Learn about Benin now. Write a letter as if to a newspaper, a blog post, a poster or a leaflet explaining whether you think the objects looted from Benin by the British should be sent back to the Oba of Benin.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To learn about the Benin objects in British museums and the call for repatriation.
• To write a blog post/letter/poster/leaflet about whether the Benin artefacts in British museums should be repatriated to Benin City

Children will:

• Discuss the arguments for and against repatriation of cultural objects
• Research arguments for and against repatriation
• Write their own opinion piece about whether objects from Benin should be repatriated

• Artefacts from Benin in museums around the world
• Opinions about repatriation
• Researching and writing about repatriation of objects to the Edo people

You do not need any particular resources for this session.

Views on the repatriation of artefacts from gamji.com
The donation of artefacts from Benin to a museum in Boston from modernghana.com
A museum in Dallas giving some artefacts back to Nigeria from chasingaphrodite.com