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In March, the Smithsonian agreed to transfer most of its thirty-nine Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, following a similar decision by Germany’s national museums. Now, in a very short time, a tectonic shift has occurred. Only twenty years ago, a group of the world’s self-designated “universal” museums declared that many stolen works had, over time, simply become “part of the heritage of the nations which house them.” In 2018, Benin’s minister of culture described meaningful restitution as about as unimaginable as “the reunification of North and South Korea.” More than half a million such objects-by some accounts, more than ninety per cent of all cultural artifacts known to originate in Africa-are held in Europe, where they have long seemed destined to remain. Today, they’re dispersed among more than a hundred collections, with the greatest number kept at the British Museum.įor decades, the bronzes have served as emblems of the African struggle to reclaim art expropriated under colonial rule. The performance dramatized Nigeria’s long-frustrated efforts to recover the Benin Bronzes, a collection of several thousand sculptures seized, in 1897, during the British sack of Benin City. Take me back home!” Dressed as a bronze warrior, with limbs bound and a British flag trailing at his heels, he mimed the desperation of an artifact trapped in the museum-which he fled stripped to the waist, revealing metallically painted skin.

‘Runway 34’, also featuring – Boman Irani, Rakul Preet Singh, Angira Dhar – releases in theatres on April 29.In May, 2018, the Nigerian artist Jelili Atiku shouted for help in the lobby of the Musée d’Aquitaine, in Bordeaux. “When he got to know I am using a walker, the next day he got me a bugge and said, ‘Use this, it is better and more comforting.’ Such gesture says a lot about the kind-hearted man he is,” shared Akansha. He smiled and asked me what happened to my legs, and how I am commuting on the set to the hotel. Though I did not have a dialogue with him, I told him how happy I am just sharing screen space with him.

“I remember meeting him for the first time on the set of the film. Starting her career in theatre, making her screen debut with the TV serial ‘Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha’, Akansha always had a wish to work with Amitabh Bachchan. It is my first big project in Bollywood and this is such a special memory.” In one of the plane sequences, when I was almost immobile, they picked me up and put me in the place and stood by me throughout, including Ajay sir. Sharing how cooperative the whole cast and crew were, Akansha said, “throughout that time, I was in a wheelchair but Ajay sir and all our crew members were so supportive. During the shooting of the film, the actress had a leg injury and had to shoot some of the sequences with her plaster on.