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At 00:00, His Royal Majesty, Oba Ewuare Ogidigan II, enters the New Year with graceful and powerful steps, signifying renewal, strength, and blessings for the Benin Kingdom. 👑✨
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MoWAA And The Politics Of Africa's Colonial Artefacts
The $100 million museum that is collapsing before it opens.
The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) was supposed to be restitution's crowning achievement, a David Adjaye masterpiece housing the returning Benin Bronzes. Instead, as of late 2025, it sits legally stranded: land title revoked, launch overrun by protesters, legitimacy shattered.
This is the implosion of a Western-imposed model that tried to solve a colonial crime with a neocolonial solution.
The 2018 Benin Dialogue Group agreed to support the Oba of Benin in building a Royal Museum on Palace grounds. But Governor Obaseki, chasing international financing, pivoted. He created MOWAA an independent trust designed for "professional," non-royal control. Exactly what Western donors wanted.
The British Museum and German Foreign Office poured millions into this corporate-style NGO rather than work with the traditional monarchy. Restitution became political patronage, not cultural restoration.
Oba Ewuare II refused to be sidelined. The artifacts aren't "art objects" they're spiritual ancestors belonging to the throne. In March 2023, President Buhari's Federal Gazette recognized the Oba as sole owner, legally stripping MOWAA of its claim.
To build this "world-class" museum, Obaseki demolished the historic Benin Central Hospital. The optics: destroy a healthcare facility for the poor to build an art house for the global elite.
In November 2025, protesters stormed MOWAA's Institute launch, forcing diplomats to flee. Days later, the new Governor revoked MOWAA's land title. The "museum of the future" is now a squatter.
The epilogue: You cannot bypass the original owners and call it restitution. Without transferring power not just objects even the most expensive institution is built on sand.
@mukholitrevor reports.
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Since obaseki boys refuse to post it because of shame i will post it...
You stay morning till night praising Obaseki but this is what obaseki used ur state allocation that he was supposed to use to build schools,hospitals ,roads and security to fund his friend private business..leaving Edo state with nothing...
Am sure you pple are shocked and cant come online now and lie or twist narratives public hearing they for all of us.
Imagine Mowaa reperesentative claiming he is not prepared..🤣
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Iyeki's and other market leaders in Benin Kingdom in jubilation and in total accordance with the Oba for stopping the plan Iyaloja imposition on Edo Market Women.
Ọba n'kposisi n'muda egbe
Tu khian tọ ye ukpo eronmwon D'ugie
Nọ vbe emwin nọ Oba tá n'se tọ Ozolua gbé!!!
Ọba Gha Tọ Kpẹre Isee!!!
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@izzyomoruyi What nonsense! Iyaloja of where? This is an insult and it is even worse that the Governor is fully aware of it, we shall see.
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Oba Ewuare II has rejected the idea of Iyaloja in Edo markets, stating Benin markets are led by palace-backed Iyeki. ow.ly/6Bmz106njXZ
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@akpancino @PastorMarvy Nice , people are being kidnapped, let's now burn down fellow citizens working for their money alive to prove a point
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Innocent people are jumping out of the building to their death so as to avoid getting burned alive by their fellow citizens burning government facilities.
This is what that stupid lawyer from Akwa Ibom is advocating for in Nigeria.
nyie@kandokumari
is this what you wanted? is this what the movement was about?
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@akpancino @PastorMarvy So two killings make all killings right, Why do you desire these shallow holes so much? By the way, what you envisage might break out in Valencia before Nigeria, you never can tell sir.
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@PastorMarvy What about the people that are being killed everyday by bandits and kidnappers.
What about people that die of starvation due to the failure of this government?.
What about the lives we lost in yelewata?.
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