Benin City based Nigerian artist, Mr Enotie Ogbebor, has been featured in The New York Times.
The founder of Nosona Studios wrote on his Facebook wall saying: “I got featured in the The New York Times. They were made to tell stories, to keep memories, and to hand over all these stories and memories from one generation to another,”
According to him: “Western institutions had turned these pieces into objects of admiration, when these were objects holding information. They took most of those riches.
“It was the equivalent of taking the works from the Renaissance in Europe all the way to the modernists Bach, Handel, Shakespeare, Mozart — everybody.
“That’s what was done to us. Imagine if that was taken away from Europe for the last 130 years. Do you think Europe would be where it is today?”
