Germany has returned at least 20 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria as part of a larger reparations effort around stolen artifacts from Africa.
Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Nigeria's Minister of Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed are pictured during the ceremony. Germany has returned 22 historic bronze sculptures to Nigeria as part of efforts to address what its foreign minister called its"dark colonial past."Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Nigeria's Minister of Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed are pictured during the ceremony.
"Twenty years ago, even 10 years ago, nobody could have anticipated these bronzes returning to Nigeria, because the obstacles to achieving repatriation were seemingly insurmountable," Nigeria's Minister of Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed
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