The Looting Of The Benin Bronzes | Drunk History: Black Stories 

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.

Zeze looks good as an Edo queen. I like this format of storytelling lol

Ty didn't do his homework, he keeps repeating what my man says 🤣

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.

This is a sick idea, I'm surprised there isn't more. Why are some on private as well?

I need more of this black British drunken stories !!!

Shout out to all my Benin people out there, we are on the MAP. Oba gha tor kpere ✊🏾

If they stole all this art I’m wondering what else they stole

My mum's ethnic group... Can't believe I'll be dressed like that one day on my traditional wedding💓💓

I am here for this!!! Loved Drunk History. Now this!???!! Some one one is making the right choices. 💥💥❤👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

They looted Ethiopian artefacts to..

Comedy with knowledge and ancestral culture

Is that Zeze??

Zeze 😂😂

Brilliant Storytelling Keep this up ⬆️ ✊🏿

Absolutely loved this ✨

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) !

Great show. Big up it man !!!

Only thing that’s missing is a picture of the items in the museum.

Naaaaaahhh you went IN. More more more 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

🤣 love this.

Good editing lol entertaining

This is dope. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

😆🤣🤣🤣 love it .

Love this😍 shout out to all my Benin people

This is brilliant 👏🏽😂

This is amazing

Nah this is sick! They need to do bare episodes

Well put 💥🙏🏾

Love it!! 🤣😂🤣😂

They had to use that sket 😂

I think Germany has some of those bronzes too : (

I Really Really Enjoyed This!!!

This is hilarious!!!!

Edo Benin State to the world 💯💙❤️ clear road

Zeze millz lol

Shout out.. love this one

dat zeze drop in

Rate it, sick idea ✊🏾✊🏾

Yeah Yah’s gonna get it back x

This is too funny

GIVE IT BACK! GIVE IT BACK! GIVE IT BACK!!!

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Thats how we roll :)

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 pillage my ppl... We’re gonna get it back!! 😂🔥🔥🔥 WE ARE ERE O!

Man like Prince Edun

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We want them back!

This happened to every place on the earth..

Dude felt everything and left 😂🤣

That’s my ppl demmmmmm oooo

Minus the swearing, this is really cool.. 🎬 Good to see such history being told.. 💯 More of such please.. 🔥 - @Acharich

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?

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?

Great Benin a nation that will be reborn. Omo n oba nedo ghator kpere iseee🙏🏿

Bronzes and Ivories.

IGODOMIGODO!

Bronze is a start

I see why this is on Comedy Central.

Looted A Whole Kingdom!!!

That guy is actually ruinin it

Interesting!. 🤣😂🤣

They stole everything from our ancestor's man, smh!

Conquered & stolen are 2 different things 😂

i’m an edo princess let’s go

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

It’s like listening to some buck of novice talk, Africa this and that, guys it’s Benin

Don't understand why they need to be drunk for this?

He looks like Eddie Murphy

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅

This shit was funny as fuck👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🙌🏾

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....

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.

Colonialism at its finest. Inda have meen trying for decades! Never mind Afghanistan!

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 😆😂😂

Lol Muslims don’t play

This angers me having white people African art in museums

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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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.

Casual racism.... acceptable in certain circles I see :///

They belong in the British museum by right of conquest

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

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.