Benin History & Research Centre in Diaspora

The Digital Benin website was officially launched in Benin City today, November 13th, 2022. The launching was incorporated into the 2022 Alaghadaro Summit in Edo State. Digital Benin is a comprehensive database of Benin bronzes that were looted by British troops during the 1897 British Punitive Expedition in Benin. Digital Benin connects data from 5,246 objects across 131 institutions in 20 countries (digitalbenin.org) . The website helps to trace different artifacts to their current locations in the world. This exemplary innovation placed Benin in the global map in the area of digital arts. The Digital Benin team in Germany and Nigeria attended the launching at Victor Uwaifo Creative Hub in Benin City Today. We must commend the work of the team behind this distinctive website. By Nekpen Obasogie  

Digital Benin is an exemplary initiative (website) that  brings together all objects, historical photographs  and rich documentation material from collections worldwide to provide a long-requested overview of the royal artefacts  looted by British forces from the Kingdom of Benin (now Edo State, Nigeria) in February 1897 and distributed in its immediate aftermath. Together, these events and processes led to the worldwide translocation of the objects shown on the platform (digitalbenin.org).        The historic Benin objects are an expression of Benin arts, culture and history, and were originally used as royal representational arts, to depict historical events, to communicate, to worship and perform rituals.  The digital Benin platform introduces new scholarship which connects digital documentation about the translocated objects to oral histories, object research, historical context, a foundational Edo ...

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