PositiveFinancial Times (UK)Perhaps its real virtue is that by interviewing a number of descendants of the Edo king of Benin about questions of restitution, and about what it is like for them to visit their heritage in a British museum, Phillips receives a surprising set of answers ... Phillips...write[s] well about the various justifications the British Museum has formulated over the past 20 years to retain its artefacts ... The truth about the museum is that it is a compendium of contradictions ... Its role is not simply to inspire wonder but to stimulate debate about its terms of justification ... [Phillips] illustrate[s] those facts with absolute clarity.
