In Might, 2018, the Nigerian artist Jelili Atiku shouted for enable in the lobby of the Musée d’Aquitaine, in Bordeaux. “I want to go house,” he cried. “Benin. Edo . . . Choose me again property!” Dressed as a bronze warrior, with limbs sure and a British flag trailing at his heels, he mimed the desperation of an artifact trapped in the museum—which he fled stripped to the midsection, revealing metallically painted pores and skin. The functionality dramatized Nigeria’s extensive-annoyed initiatives to get well the Benin Bronzes, a collection of a number of thousand sculptures seized, in 1897, all through the British sack of Benin City. Right now, they’re dispersed among the much…