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Cambridge Varsity Returns Looted Benin Bronze Artefact To Nigeria

Oct 27, 2021. by Ekohot Editor

The bronze was taken from the kingdom of Benin — now part of Nigeria — in 1897 when Britain had a foothold on the African continent EKO HOT BLOG reports that Nigeria has received a Benin bronze artefact from the University of Cambridge, more than a hundred years after it was taken from the country. … Read more

British University To Return Benin Bronze To Nigeria ‘Within Weeks’

Mar 25, 2021. by Ekohot Editor

British soldiers had seized thousands of metal castings and sculptures from the Kingdom of Benin, then separate from British-ruled Nigeria, in 1897. The University of Aberdeen said on Thursday it would return a Benin Bronze to Nigeria within weeks, one of the first public institutions to do so more than a century after Britain looted … Read more