RCMC

"As a Research Fellow at the Institute for Benin Studies and in furtherance of my fieldwork towards the writing of my Ph.D Thesis these manuscripts are vital for further studies on Benin traditions and culture. These manuscripts are reports of the fieldwork carried out in Benin Province by R. E. Bradbury. At the time of conducting these fieldworks, Bradbury was privileged and fortunate to have met informants who knew a lot about Old Benin traditions and culture. The data collected from these types of repository of knowledge vital to historical documentation are not alive anymore. In addition, the manuscript contains accounts of the different aspects of Benin tradition and culture. Hence, it is expedient and important for me to have a true historical account of the history of the material culture of Benin people to study the works and reports of a professional anthropologist and historian like R. E. Bradbury. The books published by this anthropologist and historian have become authoritative reference material to scholars of Benin studies.
It is important to note that no scholar of Benin Studies have used these manuscripts as a primary source for Benin studies and historical reference materials. It is also time for a historical study of the material culture of the Benin people of Southern Nigeria to emerge in global scholarship. Apart from my thesis writing, my research results will be presented at workshops or seminar. I have gone through the one hundred and six (106) pages catalogue sent to me by the archivist at the Cadbury Research Centre. It will take a minimum duration of four (4) weeks and maximum of six (6) weeks to study and examine the entire manuscripts."

Cadbury Research Centre, University of Birmingham, UK.

Thesis subject: The representation of Amazonian indigenous peoples in exhibitions of art and anthropology.

"The proposed research is focused on consulting the Amazonian collections at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen and the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg with the purpose of developing research for two different projects. First, it intends to focus on the collections of Waiwai objects and of other groups in the north- eastern region of the Amazon in order to support the development of a postdoctoral research proposal. Secondly, it will support research for a curatorial project on Amazonian feather capes that is scheduled to take place at the Brazilian Embassy in London in October 2019."

October 2018: Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg.
Januar 2019: National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.