Restitution row: how Nigeria’s new home for the Benin bronzes ended up with clay replicas
- Posted on October 12, 2025
- By The Guardian
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Restitution row: how Nigeria’s new home for the Benin bronzes ended up with clay replicas
The public display of artefacts looted by British colonial forces at the new Museum of West African Art was supposed to be the crowning glory of a decades-long restitution effort. What went wrong?
