Comments on naijablog: Calling out to the wisdom of the crowd: do you know a Benin Bronze expert?

Anonymous 10:43pm, it seems you love someone who l...

2008-08-14T12:30:00.000+01:00

Anonymous 10:43pm, it seems you love someone who loves to give you rocks to eat. I'm afraid you might break your teeth on them. If you would like to see what I mean, slowly stand up and place your hand under your mouth. I have just read your last comment on the post below, "Lagos: the new Moscow.

Again, I'm not attacking anon the interlocutor but the likes of you!

my mom works with the nigerian national museum and...

2008-08-14T10:52:00.000+01:00

my mom works with the nigerian national museum and ministry of culture and tourism. ill ask her.

Chief Ebohon in Benin city, who has a pretty good ...

2008-08-14T05:42:00.000+01:00

Chief Ebohon in Benin city, who has a pretty good gallery. In fact, he has a personal library on Benin art, history, culture that I hear is frequented by scholars. Some of the stuff on display at Chicago art institute came from his gallery. He appears to be some sort of authoritative figure in this discourse.

Yet another unnecessary anonymous criticism..........

2008-08-13T22:55:00.000+01:00

Yet another unnecessary anonymous criticism........yawn...........

"a Nigerian person, who has a very strong take on ...

2008-08-13T22:43:00.000+01:00

"a Nigerian person, who has a very strong take on the subject and who is influential and high profile."

Nonsense. Why don't they ask the African art curator at the British Museum for suggestions? Or an art professor?

What's the point of making a public call if what they're after is someone "influential" and "high profile"? Ekpo Eyo is the right man for the job, probably; why don't they approach him by the proper channels (or any one of the many non-Nigerians that are experts on this area).

Nonsense and ingredients and false populism, that's what's at work here.