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Telephone: 07961 886 032

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Email Address: fathers@bfsg.org.uk

Tel No: 07375 945 591

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Immediately after the city was captured, widespread looting began. It was an exercise that was carried out by all members of the expedition. Houses, sacred sites, ceremonial buildings and palaces of many high-ranking chiefs were looted and many buildings were burned down, including the Palace building itself on Sunday 21 February. There was evidence of previous human sacrifice found by members of the expedition, with journalists from Reuters and the Illustrated London News reporting that the town ‘reeked of human blood.

Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi (ruled 1888–1897), also called Overami, was the Ọba (king) of the Kingdom of Benin up until the British punitive expedition of 1897.

Born in circa 1857, he was the son of Ọba Adọlọ. He took the name Ovọnramwẹn Nọgbaisi at his enthronement in 1888. Every Ọba took a new name at his coronation, Ovọnramwẹn meaning “The Rising Sun” and Nọgbaisi meaning “which spreads over all”.

The Oba was eventually captured by the British consul-general, Ralph Moor. He was deposed and exiled to Calabar. A British Resident was appointed, and six chiefs were hung in Benin City’s marketplace.

The looting of Benin palace

Most of the plunder from the city was retained by the expedition with some 2,500 (official figures) religious artefacts, Benin visual history, mnemonics and artworks being sent to Britain. They include over a thousand metal plaques and sculptures collectively known as the Benin Bronzes. The Admiralty confiscated and auctioned off the war booty to defray the costs of the expedition.

About 40% of the art was accessioned to the British Museum, while other works were given to individual members of the armed forces as spoils of war, and the remainder was sold at auction by the Admiralty to pay for the expedition as early as May 1897 (Stevens Auction Rooms, 38 King Street, London, May 25, 1897; followed by several sales at William Downing Webster, Bicester, between 1898 and 1900). Most of the Benin Bronzes sold at auction were purchased by museums, mainly in Germany. The dispersal of Benin artworks to museums around the world catalysed the beginnings of a long and slow European reassessment of the value of West African art. The Benin art was copied and the style integrated into the art of many European artists and thus had a strong influence on the early formation of modernism in Europe.

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We are writing as the State of the African Diaspora an International Governmental Organisation
(IGO) in association with the House of Ancestry, South Carolina, USA and as Members of the
Economic Community of the 6th Region of Africa.
London Satellite address:
Gemma House, 39 Lilestone Street, City of Westminster
London NW8 8SS, United Kingdom

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As a matter of extreme urgency, we issue this Cease and Desist Order Letter to instruct you to immediately, stop, suspend, terminate, discontinue and cancel all and any future, sales, auctions, online sales, biddings, private and public arrangements of sale of any and all African Cultural
Artifacts and Antiquities including Aboriginal Art, which were looted, pillaged and stolen during the periods of colonisation. We understand that your establishments are in the possession of and has been in the possession of such African Culture Artifacts and Antiquities. We also understand that your establishments are in the process of and have been in the past selling, auctioning, and by private arrangement sales and public sales disposing of such stolen and looted artifacts.

To read the entire letter click this link.

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Visit the Alkebulan.org website

 

 

 

 

 

 

Every proud people pay tribute to the major contributors to their history!

The legacy of Omowale Malcolm X is the manifest Garveyite-Blackprint for how today’s Black Youth can resist an environment designed for our destruction and become a Revolutionary generation, capable of transforming the world. In this knowledge we honour the Life & Legacy of OMOWALE MALCOLM X, as we declare: “FREEDOM! BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!”

This year our observance features the controversial, hard hitting ,WARRIOR SCHOLAR & Author of CONSPIRACIES: Unravelling the Assassination of Malcolm X, BABA ZAK KONDO .

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Ages 6 – 16years

www.africansonsanddaughters.com

Contact Tel. 075 3802 4039

African Sons and Daughters is always looking for committed people to volunteer and support our organisation.

Requirement for

Tutors, Mentors, Community Outreach Workers,

Administration, Committee Members

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NABSS is dedicated to highlighting, promoting and supporting supplementary education to help Afrikan Heritage children

and their families to get the best support for their educational and cultural needs.

Visit the website – www.nabss.org.uk

Email Address: info@nabss.org.uk

Tel Number – 07958 348 558

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16th October 2014 Ras Seymore McLean’s Youtube channel:

HISTORY OF THE LOOTING OF MAQDALA, AND OF THE LOOT THERE OF

We feel that to clarify the situation of the loot from Maqdala it may be useful to chronicle the story as follows:

I.  The fall of Maqdala

The British capture of Maqdala, Emperor Tewodros’s mountain capital in north-west Ethiopia, took place on 13 April 1868, immediately after the Ethiopian monarch committed suicide to avoid falling into the hands of his enemies. The seizure of the citadel was described by an Ethiopian royal chronicler, Alaqa Walda Mariam, who, looking at the event from an Ethiopian point of view, states that when “everything fell into the hands of the English general . . . every [Ethiopian] soldier at Maqdala threw his weapons over the precipice and went and grovelled before the enemy”. Those who failed to throw away their arms were, he claims, “considered as belligerents and many men thus perished”, presumably at the hands of the victorious army. Elaborating on this assertion, he declares that “the English troops rivalled one another” in “shooting down” any Ethiopian seen carrying spears or guns, and that “when anyone was seen taking up a weapon he was shot”.

The above grim picture, it is only fair to say, finds no confirmation in British official records, which, on the other hand, do not, however, provide any contradictory evidence.

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