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/

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