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Should museums heed calls for restitution?
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The Foreign Desk - Bringing the ‘Benin Bronzes’ home
17 April 2021
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…
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Class acts
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The Briefing - Thursday 9 May
9 May 2019
We discuss the ongoing – and seemingly neverending – trade war between the US and China, the controversial verdict in Montenegro’s coup trial and the decline of democracy in Benin. Plus: why is Brazil losing friends?
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The Foreign Desk - Explainer 164: What happened to democracy in Benin?
8 May 2019
The tiny west African country has been, in recent memory at least, a bastion of democracy. But just before this month’s elections, a new law effectively stopped all political parties but two – both favoured by the president…
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We need to talk
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The Entrepreneurs - Episode 193
24 June 2015
A special episode on clothing entrepreneurs around the world. We meet the co-founder of YMC, a mainstay of the British fashion scene; chat with the Porto-based entrepreneur behind luxury loungewear label Walls of Benin;…
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The Late Edition, episode 563
10 January 2014
Jeffrey Kofman and Matthew Jamison discuss the day's top stories, we head to Benin to talk contemporary art and Caleb Lauer reviews new Turkish film 'Yunus Emre: Askın Sesi'.