The Netherlands says it will return over 100 Benin Bronzes that British troops looted from Nigeria in the late 19th ... Bronzes to stay in US In 2022, Germany was the first to return over 20 ...

The German government returned some of the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria– 125 years after they were stolen ... This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution – Share Alike 3.0 Germany license.

A Benin Bronze artefact will return to Nigeria after being at Jesus College, Cambridge, for over 100 years. The statue of a cockerel, known as the "Okukur", was taken by British colonial forces in ...

Germany has over the past years made strides in coming to terms with a dark era of its past, the colonial rule of large swaths of Africa ...

Benin Bronzes are exhibited in museums around the world, but the largest collection can be found in the British Museum. While Germany announced the return of the bronzes in its possession, some ...

2022 marks the 125th anniversary of the British Punitive Expedition, which saw thousands of sculptures and cultural artefacts stolen during the destruction of Benin City (in present-day Nigeria).

We are in that little corner where Nigeria ... 2021, Germany agreed to return the artefacts it holds that were taken from Benin. In the same year, the University of Aberdeen returned a bronze ...

The Netherlands’ action followed similar moves by other countries, such as Germany and the United States, which have also returned Benin Bronzes to Nigeria in recent years. Germany returned ...

Germany has successfully returned human remains to Namibia, and colonial loot to elsewhere. In 2022, it agreed to return hundreds of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, historic bronze sculptures.