"So". He looked around. "Welcome to my little abode, miss". He stressed the miss so he could give himself assurance that she was really single. She smiled and looked at the wall behind him. "I love that artifact", she said, pointing to the Benin mask hung on the wall. He looked behind.
"Oh, that". He laughed. "That's not even the original".
"I know of that", she said, sensing that talking more about the original and the forged would land them into discussions on the brutality on his people by the British.
"Artifacts like these makes me want to visit Africa right away".
"I don't think you would stay in America all your life; you will visit Africa someday, I will as well do well to take you around Nigeria", he said.