{"id":81161,"date":"2025-11-11T10:35:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T10:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=81161"},"modified":"2025-11-11T10:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T10:35:17","slug":"protesters-in-nigeria-disrupt-opening-of-major-west-african-art-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/11\/protesters-in-nigeria-disrupt-opening-of-major-west-african-art-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters in Nigeria disrupt opening of major West African art museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Qd3rD.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6\" alt=\"People protest during the launch of a new, state backed, Museum of West African Arts in Benin City, Nigeria, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Protesters in Nigeria have disrupted this week&#8217;s opening of a major museum of West African art, where local disputes over the world-renowned Benin Bronzes have already kept them from being put on display.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/travel\/news\/protesters-in-nigeria-disrupt-opening-of-major-west-african-art-museum\/ar-AA1QcVXy?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=2b5e5b26ce614332f1e5576277ffa69f&amp;ei=10\"> Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Protesters in Nigeria have disrupted this week&#8217;s opening of a major museum of West African art, where local disputes over the world-renowned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Nigeria-map-border-countries.gif","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81162,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81161\/revisions\/81162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}