Comments on naijablog: Benin - Kings and Rituals at the Art Institute of Chicago

EXCELLENT and good work Bathmate

2009-12-19T20:28:26.782+01:00

EXCELLENT and good work

Bathmate

So glad to see this and the comments. More on Beni...

2008-12-07T14:44:00.000+01:00

So glad to see this and the comments. More on Benin? come to www.iyare.net or come to Philadelphia's Penn Museum and see another show full of the vibrancy of Edo culture!

I bought the hardcover book that accompanies the e...

2008-08-12T21:59:00.000+01:00

I bought the hardcover book that accompanies the exhibition so I can learn more. I also bought an academic discourse on literature regarding the Benin Kingdom that I hope to read soon.

lost-at-the-other-end, I left telling my wife that great works of fiction must be told about this era. If not then the world will have to settle for my tortured prose, but I will write it if no one else does.

I like this quote taken from someone who commented...

2008-08-12T10:12:00.000+01:00

I like this quote taken from someone who commented on Jeremy's blog

"...there are aspect of Nigerian culture that I find fascinating and it is this that draws me to Nigeria. Not the Nigerian of today...."

The contributor goes by the name of Bamsant, taken from this blog

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8686769&postID=2386575620837514145

Just as the Chinese lamented the 150 year hic-cup in their history (when they encountered Europeans) and are working hard to regain their former world position.

Nigeria's current and future generations will have to work hard to merely begin to redress the 600 year lapse of the country.

Now I have two reasons to go to the state this Sep...

2008-08-11T09:44:00.000+01:00

Now I have two reasons to go to the state this Sept: This exhbition and Bill T. Jones. Why don't we get these kind of stuff on the continent?

Thanks to Jeremy for the "republication."Naapali, ...

2008-08-10T21:55:00.000+01:00

Thanks to Jeremy for the "republication."

Naapali, it is the most seductive exhibitions I have ever seen. By the time I left, I was so over stimulated I wanted to jump into the Buckingham fountain to regain perspective. (lol)

Think of harry potter and think what a goldmine of stories those scultpures embody. I was looking at my notes the other day and wondered about the threnodic possibilities in Oba Ewuakpe's endless mourning for Iden, his wife who sacrificed herself for the kingdom's regeneration.
Facsiniating stuff.

Copy of comment left at original site.I got here b...

2008-08-10T17:48:00.000+01:00

Copy of comment left at original site.

I got here by way of Jeremy's blog. I could not agree with you more about the exhibition. My family went to see the exhibition and I was proud to show my daugthers, whose only notion of Nigeria is that place I threaten them with where there grandparents miraculously appear from and disappear to. I was struck by my paucity of knowledge about a place whose history is so closely intertwined with mine. I was filled with awe and pride at how organized and complicated the lives of these people were long before the advent of the Portuguese and how they were able to deal on presumably an equal footing with these "Oyinbo" people. I also noticed the fluid cultural exchange that took place only to be stagnated by the turn of the 20th century.
I am glad you found the words to express what I felt so strongly but have been unable to convey.

Thank you!