British Museum offers to loan stolen Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
Curators from Europe and the United States are negotiating an agreement to set up a permanent exhibition in Nigeria of the Benin Bronzes looted by the British Army in 1897.
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Nigeria‘s government is in talks with the UK to accept the return of rare bronze statues that were stolen by the British more than a century ago.
The British, however, want to loan the stolen work to the African country instead.
Al Jazeera’s Barbara Angopa reports.
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Published On 20 Jun 2018