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German FM to personally return 20 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

Por: Associated Press Entertainment December 16, 2022

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister will personally take 20 artifacts looted by Europeans during colonial times back to Nigeria when she visits to Africa’s most populous country next week, her spokesman said Friday.The symbolic gesture follows that will see all 514 so-called Benin Bronzes held in German museums handed back to Nigeria.“With her trip Foreign Minister (Annalena) Baerbock is fulfilling this pledge,” her spokesman... + full article



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