Protesters targeted a new multi-million-dollar museum in Nigeria and forced organisers to halt a preview event ahead of Tuesday’s grand opening.
Videos showed a group insulting foreign guests and ordering them to leave after entering the grounds of the Museum of West African Art (Mowaa) in Benin City on Sunday.
The museum in Edo state was in part conceived as a home for the Benin Bronzes – artefacts looted from there by British soldiers in the 19th Century. The campus includes state-of-the art preservation and restoration facilities.
However, a bitter dispute over the control of the prized artworks has meant they are not at the museum, something that appeared to have angered the protesters.
