The discussions and performances this weekend are about the now, and what the future holds, but they are also about the past. In a short documentary film entitled ‘We The People of Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi (1888-1914)’, produced especially for the occasion, Okhiogbe Omonblanks Omonhinmin shines a spotlight on the Benin Massacre and the 1897 Punitive Expedition.
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Okhiogbe Omonblanks Omonhinmin comments on the film: “This is a series of conversations from the location of the atrocities. The lives that have been affected since February 1897, when the attack began that cut short the course of many lives and families.
The Oba of Benin was dethroned and exiled to Calabar, and a rich culture was looted, including ivories and bronzes taken with violence and held hostage by various institutions around the world, including here in Berlin. These are conversations amongst people who have a close affinity to these objects.”
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