Nigeria: When Nigeria Celebrated Return of Stolen Artifacts

Lagos — As visitors moved from the gallery to the inner rooms of the National Museum, Onikan, Lagos, to inspect array of stolen but repatriated monuments - the management of the National Commission for Museum and Monuments (NCMM) had put on display, there seemed to be a unanimity as to the general feeling.

If anything, attendees at the opening of the exhibition: "Repatriated Nigerian Cultural Property", hosted by NCMM, said they were left with two-type impressions. For the visitors among them, there could not have been a better way to come in contact with sophisticated monuments of a nation that were once taken away but have now found their way back to their root. And for management members of NCMM, seeing the monuments was reward for years of struggle, advocacy and diplomacy.

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