Who Owns Antiquity? Unraveling the Origins of Nok Sculptures of the Ancient Nok Kingdom in Nigeria

Have you read "Who Owns Antiquity?"

Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage" by James Cuno, Princeton University Press, 2008.

How can the academic luminary Prof. Kwame Anthony Appiah, author of "Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers"(Norton, 2006) ask "Whose Culture is it Anyway?" and query the origins of the sculptors of the famous Nok terracotta sculptures found in the middle belt region of Nigeria existed from around 500 B.C.E. to 200 C.E. 

He said the Nok sculptures were not made for the Nok  people.

I have to doubt his knowledge of the historical facts of Nigerian arts and culture. He should have done his research beyond the walls of Princeton University before the publication of his book.

Nok sculptures were made by the Nok people of the ancient Nok Kingdom on themselves for themselves over 2000 years. And the most recent excavations and the latest discoveries have proved that the sculptures were done by the people on different aspects of their lives like historians who wrote books on objects and subjects of different people and events in different places and times.

He should read about the latest discoveries on 

https://www.modernghana.com/news/499121/newly-discovered-nok-sculptures-exhibited-for-the-first-time.html

Kwame Akroma-Ampim Kusi Anthony Appiah FRSL (/ˈæpiɑː/ AP-ee-ah; born 8 May 1954) is a British-American philosopher and writer who has written about political philosophy, ethics, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. Appiah is Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University, where he joined the faculty in 2014.[2] He was previously the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.[3] Appiah was elected President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in January 2022.

https://appiah.net/

By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,

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NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series
The first book series on Nollywood and the Nigerian film industry since 2013.
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Beware of the Night of the Beast

 

"Beware of the Night of the Beast"
Still life art photography from
my Red Apple Series and Serendipity Series, the most comprehensive series in still life art photography in the history of contemporary art in Nigeria.

Who is the Beast?
The next one titled "Beauty and the Beast" will reveal the identity of the Beast.
It is political art photography.

All the photographs were shot within 30 days with my smartphone camera in a bedroom/study in September and October, 2024 in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria.
They are available on art canvas for auctions, collections and exhibitions.

There are more than 50 photographs so far and more will be shot before end of this year for the publication of the book of my still life art photography.
There is only one red apple with a gold ring in the world.
It is the invention of yours faithfully, Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, master of the imaginative symbolism in art and literature.
- Ekenyerengozi Michael China,
Publisher/Editor,
NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series
The first book series on Nollywood and the Nigerian film industry since 2013.
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The Most Comprehensive Still Life Art Photography Series in the History of Contemporary Art in Nigeria

My Red Apple Series and Serendipity Series are the most comprehensive series in still life art photography in the history of contemporary art in Nigeria.

All the photographs were shot within 30 days with my smartphone camera in a bedroom/study in September and October, 2024 in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria.

There are more than 50 photographs so far and more will be shot before end of this year for the publication of the book of my still life art photography.
There is only one red apple with a gold ring in the world.
It is the invention of yours faithfully, Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, master of the imaginative symbolism in art and literature.

- Ekenyerengozi Michael China,

Tuesday, October 22, 2024.
Uyo, Akwa Ibom State,
Nigeria.
Publisher/Editor,
NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series
The first book series on Nollywood and the Nigerian film industry since 2013.
Affiliate Partner,
Cinewav of Singapore
https://www.amazon.com/author/ekenyerengozimichaelchima
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelchimaeyerengozi

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" The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos" Selected for 2024 Berlinale Spotlight: World Cinema Fund at Around the World in 14 Films”

 

Nigerian Thriller, " The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos" Selected for 2024 Berlinale Spotlight: World Cinema Fund at “Around the World in 14 Films".

"From Nigeria's mega-metropolis Lagos comes The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos, which celebrated its world premiere in Toronto. The film by the seven-member Agbajowo Collective moves between thriller and magical realism. The story was inspired by the forced evictions and destruction of the fishing community of Otodo Gbame in 2017."

Read more on 
https://www.berlinale.de/en/2025/news-press-releases/257730.html

My Red Apple Series and other Still Life Art Photography

 

The Chinese Agenda.

The Phenomenon of Yogi

The moon is a small bead and the moonlight done with my Torchlight.

The earring is the same small bead. 

The red apple with a gold ring for the still life photographs created by me.

My Red Apple Series Still Life Art Photography of conceptual and intellectual narratives and perspectives on life, economics, politics, culture, people, places and developments using books, magazines and other objects in my observations.
I created some of the objects I have used for the photographs.

The photographs were shot with my smartphone camera in a guest room during my visit to Uyo, Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria in 2024.
I created the unique red apple with a gold ring as a symbol of conquest and quest for an important possession, achievement, attainment, policy, ambition, mission and vision in the world showing important icons and locations of human developments in Africa, Asia, Europe and America.

Some have been posted on 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelchimaeyerengozi

The photographs are on art canvas and are available for private and public collections, auctions and exhibitions.

My artworks have been exhibited locally in Nigeria and internationally in Japan since when I was 20 years old and co-curated the first Art Against AIDS exhibitions in Nigeria at the National Museum and National Theatre in 1993.
The works of my only mentor in fine arts, the famous Prof. Bruce Onobrakpeya were included in the sold out exhibitions.