What if you didn’t have to wait for European and American museums to repatriate African artifacts? Mulling this question, Chidi Nwaubani, the founder of NFT project Looty, decided to take matters into his own hands with his project Looty, which bills itself as a “digital restitution project.”
“Our ‘Looters’ [anonymous team members] go to the museums (physically) and take back the artworks (digitally),” a description on its website reads. To do so, the people behind the project take scans of works and create digital renderings that are then made into NFTs.
The Benin Bronzes, a group of thousands of artifacts looted from the Kingdom of Benin in 1897 by British troops, have been the subject of repatriations at museums across Europe and the U.S. lately. Six NFTs based on some of them are available for sale through Looty at a starting price of 0.99 ETH ($1,936).
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