A collection of more than 100 items of African art is now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the first stop in a U.S. tour of rare art works from Nigeria's Ife region. VOA's Greg Flakus tells us about it.
museums are FREE YOU MORON, you should be returning all the food-stamps you have collected, section-8 living, and another handouts, sub saharan American out of wedlock is 85% highest among any human race, heck they even beat the cuckoo bird. Someone is paying for your handouts, return that ,stop using our technology and than we be EQUAL. Also stop the SLAVERY IN THE SUB SAHARA. Please it is inhumane. sub sahara is the most handout dependent region on this GLOBE, Stop begging for handouts stop showing malnourished sub saharan children, slow down on fast breeding , WE ARE TIRED TO PAY FOR YOUR CHILDREN. ASE.
@@ElusiveCube you are a very foolish dwarf goat, 1. I am not from USA, I have never lived in USA. 2. Not all museums have free entry, and ALL Museums make money from membership fees, admission fees, educational programs and more all of these would not be profitable without a subject, would you dress up, pay transport fare, pay admission fee or membership fee to enter a building and look at pictures of Queen Idia mask you could have googled and seen for free???
Just stop with the comparing us to Greeks and Romans. They are who they are and we are who we are. Clearly our art is differnt and we have our own sophistication and level of expertise. I don't see why American whites live to include them anyway seeing as the found culture really has no strong genetic links with those cultures, other than the fact they all share the same continent.
tHey won't tell you that Africans taught the Greeks science. math and sculpting. They won't tell u that. It would be too much like right.the world would know Africans rightful place on this universe. On second thought , I think they already know 😉
@portlandstone3mw oh are you triggered? Deal with it. What I Said was not racist it's fact. None of the founding colonizers/invaders were of Greek or Roman(let alone Italian), Ancestry, but tried thier hardest to create a society based upon values from those societies. To this day those two societies are always evoked as if they are the direct ancestors of the USA. Just because Britain was at one time Rome's bitch doesn't make Britain Roman. That also doesn't make the USA English. Those are facts. Furthermore, as I stated, Greek and Roman art are not the epitome of sophistication. They are a form of expression all thier own, and should be appreciated as such. Nothing more or less. If people went around the world gauging art in such a way, do you know how much wonderful beauty would be missed? You don't go comparing two totally unrelated art forms from two different societies and expect to appreciate them fully. See them for what they are, West African royal metal art from Benin a totally unrelated Society with thier own culture, history, beliefs, and art forms. Maybe it's sounds racist to you that we get annoyed about how whites word things, but the way I see it, it's your fragility that's making you think I'm attacking and driving you to think I'm being racist. No one is attacking you guys, but we are fed up with you guys trying to always compare and compete as if there is a competition. Tere was never a competition. You are who you are, and we are who we are, there's enough room for everyone to be fabulous, chill out. Your art is great, and we already have BEEN for years known that our art, culture, spirituality and history is sophisticated. We don't need validation from you.
@portlandstone3mw also, I don't think you would know what racism is if it slapped your face. Please don't speak about things you really haven't experienced. You might experience a little jab, or insult but I bet you haven't experienced the shit I have, even in my first 10 years you probably haven't experienced the shit I have. Some of it in your lively state of Oregon.
they keep comparing everything to roman art while I somewhat agree with the comparison figuring out human proportions and using them in art is not held only by romans. Many other cultures have figured this out also.
blueiguy1 It is a good comparison because Greece and Rome or typically held as the height of human civilization in ancient times and they are Western. So it is a good comparison to show that a black African civilization achieved an equal if not superior level of realism in their artwork. I am Caucasian and even I will admit that the Nigerian artwork in terms of proportion and naturalism is superior to most Greek and Roman art.
@@sakogekchyan7366 @Sako Gekchyan @Sako Gekchyan Greeks were never at the height of civilization. Chinese did same terracotta sculptures same with Nigerians ... If ancient Europe couldn't retain their skills for a few centuries, chances are they were never made by them but by peasants from a far region.
2:36" We don't know where the origin of these particular heads were". ??? Exactly how dod they not know the origin of these particular heads. Did they not take them from the palace of the Ife of the old Benin kingdom and burnt the palace down afterwards? How do they not know the origin of these artifacts or heads? Or perhaps i heard incorrectly
Truth must be told ile ife in nigeria is where all africans actually come from,,,, in those days,most of our fore fathers moved out from ile ife and settled around the continent of africa...because spiritually they're very powerful ..e g a Powerful haunter, traditional priest (Baba alawo) and very powerful prince... Since two rulers can not be on the throne, they go and spread all over the world to find there own kingdom to rule....Ile ife...! the land of expansion.
MrSivram28 Ethiopia has the oldest human skeletons around 4 million years old. They call the female EVE or Lucy! FYI ETHIOPIA is is in northeast Africa, neighbor to Sudan and Kenya.
The archaeologists, the historians and the keepers of traditions are called upon to update their research files, for something important in their research files has been missing for years, from the oral culture to the present age of pens and papers. It should not be that way. It is right time these researchers found names of each artist/sculptor associated with the aesthetic artistic findings in Yorubaland. If our researchers find it difficult to find a solution, they should adopt imaginary names or the names of the nine regal sons of King/Divinity-Philosopher Oduduwa. Let the unnamed be named. What is worth doing, is worth doing well.
@@publichealth9470 then tell us, who was oduduwa and where did he come from? If not Benin!. Also tell us a place where ife bronze nor artwork are being made, just as we have in Benin till date. What is the meaning of Yoruba and how did the name Yoruba came into existence, what century?. Also remember the Benin already had thirty nine ogiso as kings before ife had one.
@@paulphilip257 ife has been in exitence 500years before benin ...even the name benin is yoruba mean land of anger...the oba of benin is a yoruba prince ...do you know benin is just one kingdom...yoruba have more that 100 kingdoms which benin kingdom is one of them ...yoruba population is 45million in nigeria ..and dont forget there are yoruba kindoms in benin republic ghana and togo ..benin is just a kindom ...yorubaland have alot of kingdoms ...population of benin kindom is not up to 1million i am not talking of edo state...all edo state population is like 3.5million..i will tell you about olowo of owo...go and read about him is a kindom in yorubaland if their king dress and oba of benin dress you will not know the different ...it is ife prince that bring bronze work and beeds to iduland which he rename ile ibinu = bini=benin....and he left and put his son there ..his son he had with idu woman and go and creat another kindom which is OYO today
@@obaalayemore744 then you should be at the right position to answer my questions above and stop saying trash. What do you know about the great Benin empire? It will suprises you Ado Ekiti, akure Ondo are all Benin territories before the British invasion. Go study your history properly
@@paulphilip257 you are a typical benin person just argument see insult ...and so is british that make all those places start speaking yoruba ?????it only in bini they speak bini language ...your oba is a yoruba man he even send his prince to become oba of lagos ...is your oba an ife prince that bring yoruba culture to bini...i need fact not insult
What an erroneous description! The statue of Adena (Ade Ona) could never have been a woman, coz it’s a title given to men. In Yoruba culture, a woman cannot be Ade ona meaning Gate keeper or Watchman of the Ooni of Ife. Looking at the sculpture, you can clearly see straightaway that, the statue is bare chested and couldn’t have been a woman. You also have to look at the head without headdress to distinguish her as a woman. All these observations as a Yoruba person of Artistic background, made me to conclude that, this curator is wrong in her description. I’m not surprised that, she can’t give an accurate description of what is alien to her culture. So, curator please get your facts right, and let an Africa expert do this job accurately!
I think she was just trying to contrast this art with the typical abstract type art many people associate with Africa and it is interesting that Africa kept up its metal sculpture tradition while it was lost for a few centuries in Europe.
These works are older and more accurate than that of "ancient" Rome. In roman works we see corrections and mistakes these art have no correction, mistake or miscalculation Do Your Own research and confirm.
I am from India If a country didn't or doesn't have a culture they stole from another cultured countries . In easy way A boy calling someone's father as his father That's what British did
This art comes from the people put on plantations who had this beautiful intricate culture beat out of them. MOST African Americans find they are YORUBA descendants from what is Ife and Oyo in Nigeria. This religion and high culture is in their blood but it's memory was replaced with Anglo plantation culture. The N word characteristics is really wt supemacists CULTURE definitely not the culture Africans came across the sea with..
I'm from bini and my father told me that the Ogizo of bini was one high Chief in ile Ife, that is very powerfull and ffashionable.He allso loved to wear bids ,,,,, after a period of time He flew and settled down at Igodomigodo,,, before another Yoruba Prince come and re-name the land and called it....ile ibinu"LAND OF ANGER"
Ife is an oldest kingdom on earth every thing started from Ife, because the world "Ife" simply means expansions (LAND of EXPANSION). King of Ife was the first person to wore cloth on earth
Calm down (first person to wear a cloth) try to be logic with the things you spew. Even the fabric makers had to test it on themselves before anybody.... apply some sense.
There's no comparaison possible with the roman the Greek or whoever the materi3 used in IFE is a metal all the rest are marble much more easy to work with
Yorubas are ancient Egyptians; of of the largest inhabitants of Egypt were Yoruboid , and it will be expected that a good percentage of their language will be yoruboid ,too. See the table below. EGYPT YORUBA 1. Wu (rise) Wu (rise) 2. Ausa (Osiris, father of the gods) Ausa (father) 3. Ere (python/ Serpent) Ere (Python / Serpent) 4. Horise (a great god) Orise (a great god) 5. Sen (group of worshippers) Sen ( to worship) 6. Ged (to chant0 Igede (a chant) 7. Ta (sell / offer) Ta (sell/offer) 8. Sueg (a fool) Suegbe (a fool) 9. On ( living person) One ( living person) 10. Kum (a club) Kumo( a club) 11. Enru (fear / terrible) Eru (fear / terrible 12. Kun / qun (brave man) Ekun (title of a brave man) 13. Win (to be) Wino (to be) 14. Odonit (festival) Odon (festival) 15. Ma or mi (to breath) Mi. (to breathe) 16. Tebu (a town) Tebu (a town) 17. Adumu (a water god) Adumu (a water god) 18. Khu (to kill) Ku (die) 19. Rekha (knowledge} Larikha (knowledge) 20 Hika (evil) Ika (evil) 21 Mhebi (humble) Mebi, humble to ones family 22 Sata (perfect) Santan (perfect) 23 Unas (lake of fire) Una (fire) 24 Tan (complete) Tan (complete) 25 Beru (force of emotion) Beru (fear) 26 Em (smell) Emi (smell) 27 Pa (open) Pa (break open) 28 Bi (to become) Bi (to give birth, to become) 29 Hepi (a water god) Ipi (a water god) 30 Sami (water god) Sami (a water god) 31 Osiri (a water god) Oshiri (a water god) 32 Heqet Re (frog deity) Ekere (the frog) 33 Feh (to go away) Feh (to blow away) 34 Kot (build) Ko (build) 35 Kot (boat) Oko (boat) 36 Omi (water) Omi (water) 37 Ra (time) Ira (time) 38 Oni (title of Osiris) Oni (title of the king of Ife) 39 Budo (dwelling place) Budo (dwelling place) 40 Dudu (black image of Osiris) Dudu (black person) 41 Un (living person) Una (living person) 42 Ra (possess) Ra (possess/buy) 43 Beka (pray/confess) Be or ka (to pray or confess) 44 Po (many) Po (many/cheap) 45 Horuw (head) middle Egyptian Oruwo (head) (Ijebu) 46 Min (a god) Emin (spirit) 47 Ash (invocation) Ashe (invocation) 48 Aru (mouth) Arun (mouth ) Ilaje 49 Do (river) Odo (river) 50 Do (settlement) Udo (settlement) 51 Shekiri (water god) Shekiri (a water god) 52 Bu (a place) Bu ,a place 53 Khepara (beetle Akpakara (beetle) 54 No (a water god Eno (a water god) 55 Ra -Shu (light after darkness Uran-shu (the light of the moon 56 Run-ka (spirit name) Oruko (name) 57 Deb/dib to pierce Dibi (to pierce) 58 Maat (goddess of justice Mate (goddess of justice) 59 Aru (rise) Ru (rise up) 60 Fa (carry) Fa (pull) 61 Kaf (pluck) Ka (pluck) 62 Bu bi (evil place) Bubi (evil place) 63 In- n (negation In-n (negation) 64 Iset (a water god) Ise (a water god) 65 Shabu (watcher) Ashonbo (watcher) 66 Semati (door keeper) Sema (lock/shut the door) 67 Khenti amenti (big words of Osiris Yenti yenti (big, very big) 68 Ma (to know) Ma (to know) 69 Bebi, a son of osiris) Ube, a god 70 Tchatcha chief (they examined the death to see if they tricked tsatsa (a game of tricks, gambling ) 71 Ren( animal foot) Ren (to walk) 72 Ka (rest) Ka (rest/tired) 73 Mu (water) Mu (drink water) 74 Abi (against) Ubi (against / impediment) 75 Reti (to beseech) Retin (to listen) 76 Hir (praise) Yiri (praise) 77 Ta(spread out) Ta (spread out) 78 Kurud (round) Kurudu (round) 79 Ak male Ako (male) 80 Se to create Se (to create) 81 Hoo (rejoice) Yo (rejoice) 82 Kamwr (black) Kuru (extremely black 83 Omitjener (deep water) Omijen (deep water) 84 Nen, the primeval water mother) Nene (mother 85 Ta (land) Ita (land junction) 86 Horiwo (head) Oriwo (head) 87 Ro (talk) Ro (to think) 88 Kurubu (round) Kurubu (deep and round) 89 Penka (divide) Kpen (divide) 90 Ma-su (to mould) Ma or su (to mould) 91 Osa (time) Osa (time) 92 Osa (tide) Osa ( tide) 93 Fare (wrap) Fari (wrap) 94 Kom (complete) Kon (complete) 95 Edjo (cobra) Edjo (cobra) 96 Didi (red fruit) Diden (red) 97 Ba (soul) Oba (king) soul of a people 98 Ke (hill) Oke( hill 99 Anubis (evil deity) Onubi (evil person) 100 Kan (one: Middle Egyptian) Okan one) 101 Nam (water god) Inama (water god) The words above are used to show that most Yoruban words are identical to the ancient Egyptian.
@@annbrubeck8088 Abi Ogun wan kill dis one ni???? Weytin bring my Papa matter for this talk now??? Woos wobi, you better give yourself brain or find one place go sit down if you no get anything to talk about.. You and your family na him be Egyptian..... The line of the YORUBA Race wey I know come straight from the line of ISRAEL, We migrated to Egypt and left until we finally settled at IFE and OYO....... Oga language doesn't mean anything, stop spreading false lies about the people of God.
Peter Alex @ ok o...Omo Josefu alala...😂. Keep dreaming. We’re Yoruba and we influence culture and not the other way around! “Ari bi Oyo la nri Oyo nse bi eni omo baba e ni kan!” So go ahead, be from Joseph tribe lol 😂#colonial-mentality
@@annbrubeck8088 Agor ni ee ooo!!🙄 what does colonial mentality have to do with what am talking about now???? Infact every of your listed language tabloid in your first comment are all Colonial Mind set, even your name is Colonial, So what the fuck are you talking about?? Oga Ade stop leading people wrongly..... If you don't know nothing about the Yoruba race, you no go keep quiet!!.... Infact I wish I can look into your eyes while you talk to me about this shit...., Bcos I really don't know where all this your crap shit stories about Yoruba comes from!!!......Are you retarded or something???
How can the cradle of humanity not have the ability to become the number one when it comes to art, science and technology? History need to be deconstructed politically. The African has been in the helm of affairs since day one but got himself overtaken and overwhelmed by changing trends and not too distant events. Our offsprings have come back to recolonise us and hence have ended up rubbishing what gave birth to them in the first place. It's like pyramid building technology. The prototypes and smaller models in Sudan predates the massive structures that we see in Giza and not the vice versa.
These are not stolen. As she said the ife protected their patrimony. And she said they are rarely seen outside of Nigeria. In other words they are on lone.
Oodua or Yoruba, pls. Don't limit us to your brother, now, slave, england nigeria space. Ile Ife represents all Oodua people all over Africa. Thank you!
They are not at all comparable. Those African artefacts were created not earlier than 2000 years after classical Greek art reached its peak. They don't seem to predate the Portuguese contact, anyway, which is rather strange to consider they were not sparked somewhat by European contact. Also it Africa those artifacts belonged to the ruler, which shows a disconnection with the culture of the common people, while in Europe every city was filled with art and every well to do citizen afforded art on their graves at least, not just the rulers.
I see you are hurt because you got stoned with the information you want left in the closet. But we are an organization that brings out the best from every pesticide. How can we help you?
A quick check on Britannica will help you. Greek learnt their metal works from Africa. So how can you claim your teachers learnt through European contact? Again, the metal works you are seeing aren't just arts, but objects of worship and veneration, therefore you can't have it in every house like yours. Moreover, in Yoruba culture, there are families who trade and practice different professions, with some controlled by the king who is supreme. An instance is coral beads and irukere, they are used by kings alone in those days. Please talk about your history and do not attempt to tell another man's story that is alien to you. Remember also not to get angry about another man's fortune. Cheers.
@@oluyemiawolusi7945 He is a descendant of those who said everything good in Africa must had been Europeans or Aliens. But the things are no where to be found in Europe. That’s how silly they are with their insecurities. Now they are out here trying to compare theirs with ours. See what delusional History can cause?
@portlandstone3mw why go around "trolling" everyone. It's no news African art existed long before European art which debunks many of the lies you and people like you have been fed with. It's quite understandable if thats hard to take. After all we are all egotistic human. But to steal from people you claim to be savages mystify me.
