Nigerian and Greek officials have demanded the return of treasures after thousands of items were…
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In a first, the Republic of Benin will be represented in a national pavilion at…
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Restitution Organization Sues to Keep Smithsonian’s Benin Bronzes From Returning to Nigeria
The New York–based organization Restitution Study Group (RSG) is spearheading a lawsuit against the Smithsonian…
Stolen during the colonial era, dozens of bronzes that once decorated the royal palace of…
Inspite famously singing “I’m in love with plenty women”, Rema reports having no current romantic…
One of the first displays in the Penn Museum’s Africa galleries features a red panel…
As museums everywhere wrestle with what to do about artworks of questionable provenance in their…
125 years after they were first looted, two artifacts, the bronze cockerel known as ‘Okpa’…
The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, on Monday announced members of the Board of…
124 years after British colonial forces carted away several precious artefacts from Nigeria, a Benin…