University of Aberdeen to return Benin bronze looted from Nigeria
Review finds the item had been acquired in an ‘extremely immoral’ manner around 1897
25 March 2021 - 17:34
Lagos — The University of Aberdeen said on Thursday it would return a Benin bronze statue to Nigeria within weeks, one of the first public institutions to do so more than a century after Britain looted the sculptures and auctioned them to Western museums and collectors.
The university said the sculpture of an Oba, or ruler, of the Kingdom of Benin, had left Nigeria in an “extremely immoral” fashion, leading it to reach out to authorities in 2019 to negotiate its return...
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