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Berlin to start returning art it stole from Nigeria

The body overseeing Berlin’s public museums said Thursday that it will begin repatriating hundreds of Benin Bronzes this year.

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Berlin to start repatriating looted art to Nigeria this year

BERLIN (AP) The body overseeing Berlin's public museums said Thursday that it will begin repatriating hundreds of Benin Bronzes this year, after finalizing an agreement with Nigeria on the return of the objects that were stolen from Africa during colonial times.

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UK museum agrees to return looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria | News | DW

The Horniman Museum in London said it was clear the objects had been "acquired through force" by British colonial troops and that handing them back to Nigeria was the right thing to do.

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Germany Agrees to Repatriate Artifacts to Africa - Archaeology Magazine

Germany Agrees to Repatriate Artifacts to Africa - Archaeology Magazine
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Berlin to Repatriate Artifacts from Cameroon, Namibia, and Nigeria

The Prussian Heritage Foundation (SPK), the federal body responsible for overseeing Berlin’s Humboldt Forum, has announced that it has agreed to return objects to Cameroon, Namibia, and Nigeria. The revelation follows months of talks between German museum officials and those from the African nations who will receive the items, which were stolen during Germany’s colonial rule of the continent.Among the objects being restored to their rightful national owners are twenty-three artefacts, including tools and jewelry, which had been held at the Berlin Ethnological Museum and last month were sent to

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