Chika Okeke-Agulu, professor of art history at Princeton, says that the sale of the two alusi would "perpetuate the violence" of the 1960s civil war, when the sculptures were "removed" from the Igbo areas of Nigeria that tried to create the state of Biafra. " The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PM on June 21, 2020