Last Monday in Paris, auction house Christie’s proceeded with the sale of two Nigerian artefacts in the face of public outcry over their suspicious provenance. As art historian Chika Okeke-Agulu noted in a 21 June article for The Guardian, the pair of sacred Igbo sculptures, known as Alusi, were likely stolen from Nigeria during its civil war (1967-70). The sale of the sculptures is therefore an extension of the violence perpetuated during that conflict, which claimed the lives of nearly three million people.
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