“Steal Something Big Enough… and the Act Becomes Mythology”: Shofela and Shobo Coker on Bronze Faces, the Benin Bronzes, and the Power of the Heist as Homecoming

To what length would you go to recover a family―and by extension cultural and national―patrimony? In Bronze Faces, Sango, Timi, and Gbonka embark on an audacious mission: to steal back the Benin Bronzes from the British Museum. For these chums, the global call for the return of African cultural artifacts is not an abstract political […]

“Steal Something Big Enough… and the Act Becomes Mythology”: Shofela and Shobo Coker on Bronze Faces, the Benin Bronzes, and the Power of the Heist as Homecoming
To what length would you go to recover a family―and by extension cultural and national―patrimony? In Bronze Faces, Sango, Timi, and Gbonka embark on an audacious mission: to steal back the Benin Bronzes from the British Museum. For these chums, the global call for the return of African cultural artifacts is not an abstract political […]