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Although these objects are still considered irreplaceable and as sources of national pride for the African, the “commodity status of aesthetic objects has been part of the mantra of postmodernism and at the same time has complicated postcolonial African art (Appiah 1991; Kasfir 1999)” After colonialism, the significance of the objects such as the brass sculpture of Queen Idia’s head, did not change. However, the significance engendered issues in postcolonial African art. These issues include “the commercially replicated and a