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Netherlands returns 119 Benin bronzes, redressing 1897 British expedition looting

In recent years, about 1,100 objects from German, Scottish, British, and French museums have been returned amid pressure over colonial-era acquisitions.

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The Netherlands agrees to return more than 100 artifacts to Nigeria looted during colonial times

The Netherlands has agreed to return a collection of 119 artifacts to Nigeria, the latest objects to be sent back to their homelands as museums grapple with their colonial-era holdings

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Netherlands to return stolen Benin Bronzes of 1800s to Nigeria

The Netherlands has revealed that over 100 Benin Bronzes that were plundered from Nigeria by British troops in the 1800s into a Dutch museum will be returned. These sculptures hold cultural significance,

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Netherlands to return over 100 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

The Netherlands will return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria which the country took during colonial times. View on euronews

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Nigeria to receive single-largest antiquities return of 119 Benin Bronzes from Netherlands

The European country made this known in a statement by its embassy in Abuja on Wednesday, February 19, 2025. The valuable artefacts were looted during the British invasion and ended up in a museum in the Netherlands,

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Colonial amnesia: Why West Africa remembers differently

The legacy of colonialism is a deeply complex and often painful subject, evoking different emotions and memories depending on ...

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UK-US: Bases Off Cyprus Launch Webinar

Join us for the launch webinar of the campaign UK-US Bases off Cyprus! Hear from speakers in Britain and Cyprus about why we ...

Descendants of Holocaust survivors mark 76th anniversary of Cypriot internment camps' closure

Snunith Shoham says she was only a few months old in February 1947 when British authorities permitted her family to leave one ...

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Coldplay's Chris Martin thanks Mumbai fans for 'forgiving us' over British colonialism

During a concert in India, Coldplay singer Chris Martin thanked fans for "forgiving us for all of the bad things Great Britain has done." ...

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Australians celebrate and protest the anniversary of British colonization

Australia Day marks a British colony being established at Sydney Cove on Jan. 26, 1788, which eventually led to Britain claiming the entire country without a treaty with its Indigenous inhabitants.

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