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Sunday, September 5, 2021

Please, Don't Return Nigerian Artworks in Foreign Art Galleries and Museums

Please, Don't Return Nigerian Artworks in Foreign Art Galleries and Museums

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If you see the dilapidated buildings in the National Museum and National Gallery of Arts in Lagos, you will not want the Nigerian artworks in foreign museums to be returned to Nigeria.Because, Nigerians cannot preserve or protect our artworks. They are better preserved and safer in American and European art galleries and museums.

My masterpiece of painting, "Blessed Mother" I made live in the Education Unit of the National Museum in Onikan on the Lagos Island was later missing from the museum and never found till date. Some of my colourful illustrations were missing at the UNICEF in Nigeria in 1988 and not found till date.

The private art galleries don't have the funds and management for the preservation of artworks and many of the galleries have incompetent staff without certification in art curation or preservation. Many galleries have closed without any any records of the whereabouts of the artworks. I have lost priceless works without trace when custodians relocated without notice.

Nigerians cannot preserve our artworks.
Please, don't return them to Nigeria.

- By EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima

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Monday, August 2, 2021

Exposing the Historical Lies of Biafra On Abraham, Israel and the Igbos

Psychological Warfare with historical facts will end the agitations of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) within three years and not military operations. Because of their wromg premise of the historical origins of the Igbo triibe. Since their agitations have been premised on the wrong judgement of being historically linked to the Jews and Israel, they have shown their intellectual ignorance of the facts of the origins of the Igbos of South eastern region of Nigeria. You cannot have a nation without historical foundation of the history of your country.

Igbos don't have any relationship with the Jews of Israel which DNA results have confirmed.

Igbo Ukwu already had a king and kingdom before Abraham was born. Igbo Ukwu civilization is the oldest with the lost wax casting for sculpture in Africa. The oldest in the world was found in the Indus Valley Civilization of South Asia from 3300 - 1300 BCE. Igbo Ukwu was a Bronze Age civilization. The bronze artworks of Igbo Ukwu are the oldest bronze artifacts known in West Africa and were manufactured centuries before the emergence of other known bronze producing centers such as those of Ife and Benin. The bronzes include numerous ritual vessels, pendants, crowns, breastplates, staff ornaments, swords, and fly-whisk handles.

Abraham the founding father of the Jews existed during the Iron Age which came after the Bronze Age which came after the Stone Age. Therefore, Igbos cannot be from any of the lost tribes of Israel. Finis.

Case closed.

- EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima