tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post4626561180741308905..comments2024-03-27T04:46:33.198-07:00Comments on Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Will Other African Artefacts End This Way?Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-82920279519858815112012-05-14T10:46:38.029-07:002012-05-14T10:46:38.029-07:00I have answered your neocolonialist racist argumen...I have answered your neocolonialist racist argument (and that of your alter ego muamalh) elsewhere:<br />http://culturalpropertyrepat.blogspot.com/2011/01/cant-trust-natives.html<br /><br />Shame on you both.<br /><br />I was not writing of "leaving Nigeria" but being kept in people's living room.<br /><br />And of course the United States of America has never seen a civil war or any other kind in its hugely-long history has it?Paul Barfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-59070430441167466702012-05-13T11:07:26.524-07:002012-05-13T11:07:26.524-07:00The destruction of the Oron Museum and the wanton ...The destruction of the Oron Museum and the wanton burning of hundreds of ancestral figures (ekpu) as firewood during and after the Biafran civil war certainly undercuts any Nigerian claim to the high moral ground, and the foolish claim that the accidental breaking of a statue somehow justifies keeping all such artifacts in Nigeria. See Gathercole and Lowenthal, The Politics of the Past 297 (Unwin Hyman 1990).Cultural Property Observerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05924359202414555962noreply@blogger.com