Nigeria: Will Nigeria Finally Raise Restitution of Benin Artefacts?

18 September 2013
opinion

Nigeria has been elected to a key international committee for prohibiting the illicit transfer cultural property. But going by past experience, it remains to be seen whether the nation will use the opportunity to demand the return of looted priceless Benin artworks to their rightful owners

Queen-mother Idia, Benin, Nigeria, now in Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, Germany.

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