Swiss museums are celebrating a momentous step, returning invaluable Benin objects to Nigeria! These cultural treasures are joyfully making their way home. 🇳🇬 #BeninBronzes #CulturalHeritage #GoodNews
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Kurze Zwischenfrage,is es normal, dass Trödelläden Beninbronzen einfach so anbieten?Ich dachte da war was…?Oder is das eh a Fälschung u ich bin naiv u alle wissen,dass das eine Fälschung oder spätere Tourikopie is? #Wien #Beninbronzes
„Benin Bronze Bust Of A King“
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#BBCNews - Looted African artefacts to be returned by Cambridge University
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#BeninBronzes return! The University of Cambridge announces it has transferred legal ownership of 116 #Benin artefacts to Nigeria’s NCMM. The artefacts had been taken by British armed forces during the sacking of Benin City in 1897. www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2026/02...
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LOOT: Britain and the Benin Bronzes by Barnaby Phillips (@barnabyphillips.bsky.social) The history of the Benin Bronzes and the ongoing fight for their return to Nigeria.
#BeninBronzes #Repatriation
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The Benin Bronzes are not “artifacts.”
They are archives.
Cast by Edo artists centuries ago, these works recorded history, power, ritual, and memory—long before Europe arrived.
#BeninBronzes #AfricanHistory #TheTimelessGriot
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When you don't know your own history, anyone can deceive you.
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. #FrederickDouglass 👑
Leaders are Readers 📚
#BlackHistory365 #Alkebulan 🌍 #Truth #WhiteWashingHistory #BeninBronzes
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Disruption of the opening of the Museum of Western African Art by protesters and #EdoState’s revocation of its planning permission are the latest twists in a long-running saga connected to the return of the #BeninBronzes stolen during the colonial era. #MOWAA
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#Nigeria
Protesters target major new Nigerian museum embroiled in looted artefacts row
Protest at #Mowaa comes amid dispute over ownership of #BeninBronzes looted by British colonial forces
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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I'm pretty sure the argument that "we can look after the loot better than you" has now been comprehensively trashed. #parthenonmarbles #beninbronzes
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Read the new OA #HistoryMatters piece by Leslye Obiora on #BeninBronzes and the #Law:
bit.ly/4nnyF8R
#Nigeria #CulturalHeritage #antiquities #colonialism #restitution
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#Restitution row: how #Nigeria ’s new home for the #Beninbronzes ended up with clay replicas
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Read the new OA History Matters piece by Cresa Pugh on legacies of the #BeninBronzes and #Restitution within the #BlackAtlantic
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Britain condemned Nazi looting but legalised colonial plunder—India’s swords, Africa’s bronzes, and Asia’s art remain contested.
By Dr. Jan Muhammad Shaikh
Read: thefridaytimes.com/18-Sep-2025/...
#Windsor #Castle #BritishEmpire #colonial #KoheNoor #Diamond #museum #debate #BeninBronzes
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Windsor Castle’s splendour hides colonial loot—treasures seized in war, coercion, and empire still on display as national pride.
By Dr. Jan Muhammad Shaikh
Read more: www.thefridaytimes.com/18-Sep-2025/...
#Windsor #Castle #BritishEmpire #colonial #KoheNoor #Diamond #museum #debate #BeninBronzes
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The devs of #Relooted must be frantically rewriting a few scenarios as we speak: "The Netherlands returns 119 stolen sculptures to Nigeria - The #BeninBronzes were artefacts stolen during the UK’s imperial plunder of Benin, modern-day southern Nigeria" aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/21/t…
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The devs of #Relooted must be frantically rewriting a few scenarios as we speak: "The Netherlands returns 119 stolen sculptures to Nigeria - The #BeninBronzes were artefacts stolen during the UK’s imperial plunder of Benin, modern-day southern Nigeria" aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/21/t…
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🇳🇱🇳🇬🗿🏺 119 #BeninBronzes returned from the Netherlands to Nigeria — the largest physical repatriation in our history. A moment of remembrance, pride, and justice for the ancestors. The journey of restitution continues…👇🏾
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The #Netherlands returns 119 stolen sculptures to #Nigeria:
The #BeninBronzes were artefacts stolen during the UK’s imperial plunder of Benin, modern-day southern Nigeria.
My preview piece from earlier this month, for RFI:
rfi.my/BhXE.BS
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As the #Netherlands returns 119 #stolen sculptures to #Nigeria The #BeninBronzes were artefacts #stolen during the #UK’sImperial plunder of Benin, modern-day southern Nigeria. It's now more than time #Britain should return other looted artifacts. Such as the #ElginMarbles to #Greece
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@maej43.bsky.social @anniegirl.bsky.social @doloresquintana.bsky.social @beyerstein.bsky.social @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com @heymistermix.com @sistergoldenbear.bsky.social Hallelujah!😁 W00t! This is wonderful. #BeninBronzes #Netherlands #Nigeria
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Big win for cultural repatriation! 🇳🇬 The Netherlands just returned 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria – a powerful step towards righting historical wrongs. #BeninBronzes #Repatriation #Nigeria #CulturalHeritage
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www.euronews.com/culture/2025... “The Dutch govt agreed to return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria in February, & the official handover ceremony will take place on 21 June. British colonial troops originally stole the artefacts in 1897” #Nigeria #BeninBronzes #Netherlands #EuropeanColonialists
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The Netherlands returned 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, marking a historic repatriation of looted artifacts. This event enhances cultural diplomacy and heritage recovery efforts.
#BeninBronzes #CulturalRestitution #ArtRepatriation
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