Germany returned 20 historic bronze sculptures to Nigeria as part of efforts to address its “dark colonial past”, the German foreign minister has said. Annalena Baerbock returned the prized cultural artefacts to Nigerian officials in a ceremony in the capital Abuja. The sculptures, known as Benin bronzes, were looted from the West African country when it was under colonial rule. It was wrong to keep these bronzes and it is long overdue to return these bronzes to their home,” she said at the event. Nigerian authorities have in recent years intensified efforts to get the looted artefacts to be returned.

Source: The Guardian December 20, 2022 16:23 UTC