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  • Episode 381
  • 17 Apr 2021
  • 30 min

Bringing the ‘Benin Bronzes’ home

  • The Foreign Desk
  • Episode 381
  • 30 min

In recent weeks several museums in Europe announced that they are planning to return the treasures known as the ‘Benin Bronzes’, which were looted from what is now Nigeria by British troops in 1897. But why now, after years of clamour for their restitution? Will more museums follow? And what…

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  • Andrew Mueller

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