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Benin Bronzes: Britain’s “moral debt” to Nigeria

Focus on Africa

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Former 鶹 correspondent Barnaby Phillips, who spent time reporting from Nigeria, talks to Focus on Africa’s Bola Mosuro about his new book, Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes. The University of Aberdeen in the UK recently announced that it would return to Nigeria a Benin bronze sculpture originally looted by British forces in 1897. (Photo: A Benin Bronzes exhibit at London’s British Museum; Credit: David Cliff/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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