The investigation, carried out by the Legacies of Enslavement Advisory Group, found that the university and its colleges benefited from companies that participated in the trade.
With London’s Horniman Museum announcing it’ll hand over ownership of its 72 bronzes to Nigeria, home to Benin City, which the British looted in 1897, the floodgates for a tide of repatriations are now well and truly open.
the flooding was triggered by a near record downpour over one of the hottest, driest spots on earth. a london museum says it will return ownership of artefacts that were looted in the nineteenth century to nigeria. the horniman museum said 72 objects which were forcibly removed from the kingdom of benin, during a british military incursion in 1897, would be handed over to the nigerian government. sathnam sanghera is a columnist and feature writer at the times and author of the book empireland. i spoke to him earlier and he told me momentum was building for this campaign to return looted artefacts within the museum community: germany returned about 1000 benin bronzes a while ago, or agreed to. france has returned some. jesus college cambridge, aberdeen university. the problem is our national museums are not returning theirs, and i feel like they re falling behind the international