The Looting Of The Benin Bronzes | Drunk History: Black Stories
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In 1897, one of the worst acts of colonial theft would occur when the British Army took Benin City (in present day Nigeria) in a violent raid and looted the Kingdom of their Bronze artefacts. To this day 4,000 of these beautiful pieces of African art are scattered in museums around the world. Actors Tom Moutchi and Ty Logan tell us a story about a prince's mission of restitution and chance encounter leading to the return of some long sought after artefacts.
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Ty was the best hype man ever, when he walked away...I felt that.
Benin boy here, born in Lagos but schooled in Benin for two years (igbinedion sec. school) and went to grandads' every christmas till i was about 7. Moved to the UK in my teens and never really spoke or understood the language but my connection to that land is deep. Love to all my Edo people worldwide, from Manchester to Italy!
We don't like to fight but we never run.
@The505Guys that simultaneous equation? ... balances out bro. Everyone has their own path 🤷🏾♂️
@The505Guys lol what's the context here bro Haha? Are u Nigerian saying ppl go back?
@The505Guys I'm guessing you are European then?
@The505Guys i never did live in Benin in the 1st place (which is what i wrote in my first post but you were so eager to make a point you had to ask this question)...so Benin people can only live in Benin abi?
@The505Guys boarding school my brother. For 2 years. Went to Lawani (family home) during mid term holidays but mostly went back to Lagos for xmas and summer. So i never lived there, if that makes sense....
Ty didn't do his homework, he keeps repeating what my man says 🤣
Ty prob struggles to read at a year 6 level tbh
Zeze looks good as an Edo queen. I like this format of storytelling lol
This is epic because I am an art teacher. I'm always trying to explain the significance of the Benin Bronzes to my children. They don't get it because they're teenagers.
They are an example of a culture made physical, by the finest of bronze workers and craftsmen.
Each one represents an important historical moment or victory. Integrated carefully into the existing gallery, so that combined they tell a clear, beautiful, and integral history of the Benin people.
Which the British then ripped apart sold, kept, and gave away (to other western countries) literally destroying an entire country's history and randomly scrambling what they didn't destroy.
(They also burned downed the palace so it could never be rebuilt.)
This is a sick idea, I'm surprised there isn't more. Why are some on private as well?
Trust mee
There's more just go to the original comedy central
There are like 6 seasons, Derek Waters created this show because of a friend while drunk telling him a history story. He then came up with the idea for this show.
I need more of this black British drunken stories !!!
They looted Ethiopian artefacts to..
Shout out to all my Benin people out there, we are on the MAP. Oba gha tor kpere ✊🏾
ISE!!!
Iseee👏🏿
I am here for this!!! Loved Drunk History. Now this!???!! Some one one is making the right choices. 💥💥❤👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
If they stole all this art I’m wondering what else they stole
They looted stuff from all the countries in the empire
Everything
All
Like what?
@@iffysd9864 other than diamonds there wasn’t much else to take lol
Comedy with knowledge and ancestral culture
My mum's ethnic group... Can't believe I'll be dressed like that one day on my traditional wedding💓💓
Ethnic group, not tribe!
The word "tribe" is a leftover from colonial times, when colonialist thought all West Africans were all one ethnic group, with no distinct cultures, languages or identities.
The word reduces sophisticated ethnic groups, to tribal communities, whilst you would never hear of white ethnic groups like Mediterraneans, Slavs, Franks, Saxons etc, being referred to as "tribes" in modern times.
Nigeria does not have tribes
Me too 🙌🙌...
@@MKRex thanks..just corrected my mistake😊
Witches 🧙
Brilliant Storytelling
Keep this up ⬆️
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🤣 love this.
Great show. Big up it man !!!
I love this,it’s what you do with your friends after drinking so much indoors you say phuck going out and talk until Match of the day starts (if it’s a Saturday) !
Absolutely loved this ✨
😆🤣🤣🤣 love it .
Good editing lol entertaining
Naaaaaahhh you went IN. More more more 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
This is brilliant 👏🏽😂
This is dope. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Love it!! 🤣😂🤣😂
Love this😍 shout out to all my Benin people
This is amazing
This is hilarious!!!!
Well put 💥🙏🏾
They had to use that sket 😂
Only thing that’s missing is a picture of the items in the museum.
It’s there!!!!
I Really Really Enjoyed This!!!
Nah this is sick! They need to do bare episodes
🔥
Shout out.. love this one
Zeze millz lol
This is too funny
Rate it, sick idea ✊🏾✊🏾
😂😂😂
Edo Benin State to the world 💯💙❤️ clear road
Na soo blood nor be child play. Omo n oba nedo ghator kpere iseee
Is that Zeze??
Yeah that’s her😂
Yep that's Zalika miller
Yup.. 🎬
She looks great
I think Germany has some of those bronzes too : (
Heard on the news that they agreed to return some of them.
@James Cricket James I know you think the world will be like this forever but it won’t. Those who are first now will eventually come last it’s prophecy
They're in many European musuems.
And France!
dat zeze drop in
Yeah Yah’s gonna get it back x
👌🏿®️😂😂😂😂😂
Thats how we roll :)
Zeze 😂😂
When I saw these I wanted to take them with I... When I am saying to the brother let's take this... They were laughing like I was joking.. Mind u I am with the wife and children... When I look in these guys eyes and see they not serious.. It daunted on I... Our ppl really talking the talk... We have to be walking that walk.
You’re an idiot 😂
We want them back!
GIVE IT BACK! GIVE IT BACK! GIVE IT BACK!!!
To who? Benin or Nigeria. The now non-existent Benin Kingdom was in modern day Nigeria. But Benin feel like they have more claim to the bronzes. Whichever you choose, a lot of people won't be happy.
@@nickmann2111 stop with your facts. They would be empty inside if it wasn't for their hatred of Britain and white people.
You pillage my ppl... We’re gonna get it back!! 😂🔥🔥🔥 WE ARE ERE O!
The kingdom which owned the artefacts is no more. That was the same kingdom which enslaved their own people and sold them to Europeans.
If you want to celebrate ancient African art, go to the British Museum like everyone else; in Nigeria it would go missing and get sold to private collectors.
Minus the swearing, this is really cool.. 🎬
Good to see such history being told.. 💯
More of such please.. 🔥
- @Acharich
This happened to every place on the earth..
Them treasures are scattered all over the world mate, the Brits flogged loads of them during some antiques road show or something, I heard Picasso got one for himself bless him. So getting it all back is gonna be a whole load of ball-ache innit?
Dude felt everything and left 😂🤣
That’s my ppl demmmmmm oooo
What about when the tribes looted from other tribes? Skip Benin and give it back to them? Or the tribes that that tribe looted from?
Mate just stfu and enjoy the video there drunk and you taking what they say serious like 🤦🏽♂️
IGODOMIGODO!
4 thousands bronzes?? PLEASE TAKE THE MILLIONS OUT OF POVERTY CAUSED BY THE DESTABILZED GOVERNMENT AND THIS COUNTRY!!!!Lets focus on things that really matters FIRST
How do you do that when the countries that colonised you have imposed an imaginary debt to keep you under their foot?
They stole everything from our ancestor's man, smh!
i’m an edo princess let’s go
I see why this is on Comedy Central.
Bronzes and Ivories.
Man like Prince Edun
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅
That guy is actually ruinin it
Which one?
😂 didn’t see it before but I see it now
Bronze is a start
Great Benin a nation that will be reborn. Omo n oba nedo ghator kpere iseee🙏🏿
Don't understand why they need to be drunk for this?
Interesting!. 🤣😂🤣
Conquered & stolen are 2 different things 😂
Looted A Whole Kingdom!!!
He looks like Eddie Murphy
It’s like listening to some buck of novice talk, Africa this and that, guys it’s Benin
Good point on that. But is it Nigeria that should get them seeing as the Benin Kingdom was in modern day Nigeria? You might find more descendents of the Benin Kingdom in Nigeria than in Benin.
Benin is in Africa mate, ofcourse it doesn't represent the whole continent but its nothing to get triggered about.
@@admirekashiri9879 not your mate . And don’t educated me
@@abdulsegs Whatever stay triggered then nothing is going to change in this video sorry
Love this ✊🏾 respect to the young guy but he kinda ruined this
"Right a wrong that has been done to Benin"...?!?! Benin, Nigeria built a fortune selling African people into slavery! Benin has absolutely no right to have the Bronzes returned. These treasures belong to all the victims in the Diaspora.
Lol you're deluded
@@labbdogg2929 not a good argument lol.
@@labbdogg2929 GTH
So u say they should belong to the victims and yet the British has them?
Funny how the Benin empire was one of the states in Africa not to participate in the trans Atlantic slave trade
Colonialism at its finest. Inda have meen trying for decades! Never mind Afghanistan!
This shit was funny as fuck👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🙌🏾
The Benin king killed 3 brits so in retaliation the king had to kiss his bronzes goodbye. But now with all the liberals they will be handed back 😆😂😂
Important question, what were the British doing there in the first place?
It's not the Liberals that are the issue, it's time catching up with criminal past of the British Empire..... what did you think? You'd just go around the world pillaging, plundering and enacting genocide across the planet and then happily sail away onto the sunset?
It all comes back full circle, even Rome (believed to be the greatest civilisation) fell. The British Empire is on its way out.
@@quietatse Benin was the hub for European slavery, they sold them to white ship captains.
@@protectwhatisours6895 We've grown tired of white supremacist stories. Save those stories for your buddies around the camp fire.
You can't have thieves and gangsters control the narrative of their crimes, you'll always end up with such stories.
@@quietatse I’m not a white supremacist, I do not have white supremacist friends and certainly will not allow the study of history be tainted with falsehoods.
I myself am of Indian heritage, the British empire has done a great deal of damage to India. But it also has done a good deal too, it’s just about knowing what the truth is and it letting emotions cloud your thinking.
There is no smoke without fire and such.
What the world needs is an international bureaucratic agency staffed by highly paid people to investigate every minute incident of history and repatriate every item to the exact location it originated from....
Lol Muslims don’t play
Tell them !! We held down for Africa
I’m white (Scottish and Irish heritage as far back as 700yrs) never know money in the family on my mums side her dad was an engineer in WW2 and he worked all his days and put ALL his money in bank shares cause that’s what people were told to do 😂 I’ve got Crohn’s disease and on the verge of dying before getting diagnosed because I had a prick of a consultant who wasn’t doing his job properly and my mum decided to take me private luckily the guy sent me to his clinic but I was on a waiting list for a surgery another and my natural weight is 12 stone and I went down to 7 so my mum sold last of the shares to get my operation. My dads side are farmers but in the north north east coast of Scotland, as far north as you can get in the east. Trust me nobody with money wants to
Live there unless you like cold, wind and rain(like ice rain) so don’t think those fields are worth money. I think my grandpa was sick of waking up at 4am to milk cows and ploughing fields (with no technology) til it got dark and sold the farm and bought a hardware store but I don’t see my dad he’s a functioning alcoholic that only cares about himself. The Irish haven’t been treated the best and neither have the Scottish if I go back to my mum or dads clan. I live in Glasgow now. A city built my slaves. Live a humble life because my disease has taken away my energy, health, fitness and a tiny bit of my desire. This shit pisses me off. I’ve been down south and seen how much money is there. I’ve seen the kids schools with AstroTurf football pitches and shit. Why can’t 1- The british museums give back there shit they have stolen from any country, 2. Why can’t the really rich kids from the establishment, the kinds that go to the richest boarding schools and the other rich white kids that have benefited work out how much there grandparents made from slavery and give it back in certain ways in poor communities 3.why can’t we as people forget about race and come together, anyone who’s of age or fit stand up and take back what is ours. Give back what was stolen yeah but start holding our governments accountable. If you call up all your pals and ask them to give you. a percentage of your earnings and they will stick it all together and build a gated community and you find out he’s been paying off a mortgage for a multimillion pound house and taking women out to crazy expensive restaurants and loads of other things then he’s gonna get rushed except if we do tnat it’s terrorism
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This angers me having white people African art in museums
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People like to slate the British for this stuff but disregard all other cultures who have looted neighbouring tribes/nations etc. Not saying it’s good either way but difference is the British at least preserved these items instead of neighbouring tribes/ empires and nations who have looted and melted down countless artefacts.
Benin's wealth came from slavery. Let's just be clear about that.
That's not true pal. Do some more studying.
Care to elaborate..? 💭
@@acharich the capture and sale of human beings. Slaves. Benin had them. Lots. And sold them. Lots. It's pretty well documented if you wanted to have a read about it. Very interesting history.
Unfortunately, true. Benin owes reparations as well.
For the record, Benin only shared in war bounty with the Portuguese (& the Dutch) who were at the time Business partners. It was customary at the time to take war prisoners, who would serve for a time until their debts were paid.
Benin outlawed slavery in the late 17th century and was vehemently against it, even incurring the hatred of the Dutch who eventually mounted an assassination attempt on the Oba in 1735.
It was a practice generally frowned upon by ancient Benin.
Casual racism.... acceptable in certain circles I see :///
Which part is racist?
Your white aren’t you 🤣 . Nothing in this video is racist shut up and stop embarrassing yourself 😂
They belong in the British museum by right of conquest
It’s stolen and that’s all there is to it so stop trying to make up stuff to make ur self sound smart dumb ass
It’s colonial theft rooted and motivated by racism
@@aaronregisford4140 and?
@@sonsofwoden2056 in an age where we no longer have conquests, and we almost universally understand what happened in Benin to be an atrocity, they do not belong to the British Museum
@@aaronregisford4140 they may not “belong” but they are certainly better keep in the British museum.
Give us our stuff back.... but also can we migrate, live and raise our children in your country and completely abandon our own for your culture lol
No ur right because African people live in the UK. They have no right to ask for things that were stolen to be returned. What a stupid statement
No one that’s moved to this country ever abandoned their cultures for your dead culture and no one ever wants to leave their country but shit happens
If you hadn’t looted our land we wouldn’t be here.
@@flaviaakello Oh please.
@@Duncan456 is that it, oh please... whist you sit under a post with a clear example of your colonial impact, you should be ashamed!
Move on, everyone who had any part in it is long dead. How many people now only care about this because of this video and had no prior knowledge of it. The Benin kingdom no longer exists and no-one knows the exact location where the artefacts were taken from. The UK has paid millions of pounds in aid to Nigeria, but no-one will ever mention that. Why don't we stop digging up the past trying to find contentious issues which will only make us hate each other even more. Let it go and cheer up.
Ignoring history because u don't care and were not affected by it doesn't help or solve anything. Simple returning of artefacts to the owners and keeping pictures of the artefacts and filling the British history museum with more British history such as things related to tudors and victorians and celts. Its really not that hard. Stop being ignorant it's disgusting
Oh that's great you give Nigeria aid and then you take its crude oil and other resources at discount prices through BP I'd say that's an uneven trade off in the Brits favour. You lost yute go do some research fam.
The Benin kingdom still exists I live in Benin City, I speak Benin language our palace is still where it has always been in Ring road our Oba (king) still sits on the throne. Our culture is still being taught at homes and in schools and there is nobody in Benin who does not care about our bronzes and artworks stolen from us. There is nobody who doesn't remember ur great Oba Ovonramen who was forced into exile in 1897 because he refused to give up his people to the British colonialists. The fact that you think this is sad very sad I can't believe that somebody will willingly live in ignorance. I won't tell you to read this or that because frankly why should I be educating you. If you can't do the work and find out the truth then that is your cross to carry
@@dotijani38 Nigeria is not the same as the Benin Kingdom. The UK when it was Anglo Saxon was pillaged for gold and artefacts by the Vikings from Denmark and Norway for hundreds of years but do you see anyone arguing that reparations should be made by Denmark and Norway to the UK. People are so desparate to find an issue to feel injusticed about they are delving back in to history and it will never end. We've got to come together and stop finding stuff to get annoyed about and look forwards. If it's not the Benin bronzes, it'll be something else. If people in the UK really cared about Nigeria they'd be up in arms about the current murder, rape and pillaging by Boko Haram that's going on RIGHT NOW but no, everyone is getting angry about something the British did in the late 19th century.
@@osazuwademiirowa-omoregie2500 everything you said is left over culture from Benin. There's plenty of left over culture from Anglo Saxon Britain in the UK but I wouldn't say that they still exist. You live in Nigeria my friend. The UK was pillaged for gold and artefacts for hundreds of years by the Vikings but no one in the UK is asking for reparations or gold back from them. Nigeria has much more current problems like Boko Haram, huge corruption in government and terrible human rights records. But the people want their bronze plates back from the Uk. Sort out your priorities.