Visitors to the Humboldt Forum, a museum complex in Berlin, having a close-up look of the Benin Bronzes on display. — ©2023 The New York Times Company
AFTER years of ignored pleas and stonewalled requests, deals were finally coming together to return some of Africa’s most prized treasures to the continent.
The Smithsonian Institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the German government announced they were returning scores of sculptures, plaques and ornaments, known as the Benin Bronzes, that British soldiers had plundered in 1897 from Benin City, in what is now Nigeria but was once the centre of a kingdom.
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