Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP)
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has demanded a full and unconditional return of the 1,130 Benin bronzes looted in the 19th Century and domiciled in German museums.
The single largest collection of the artefacts is held by the British Museum, but about 1,130 of them have ended up in German museums in Hamburg, Cologne, Stuttgart, Leipzig and Dresden.
At least 440 are kept within the collection of Berlin’s Ethnological Museum, and were due to go on display this autumn at the Humboldt Forum, a newly opened museum of non-European art in the city centre.
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