The Netherlands 119 restores stolen statues to Nigeria Arts and Culture News

Bron’s boys were made of artifacts that were stolen during the looting of the imperials in the United Kingdom, southern Nigeria.

The Netherlands officially handed over 119 ancient sculptures stolen from the former Nigerian kingdom of Benin more than 120 years ago during the colonial era.

Ologbeel Holway, Director General of the National Committee for Museums and Antiquities in Nigeria, said on Saturday that the artifacts were “the embodiment of the spirit and identity of the people who were transferred from them.”

He said at a ceremony held at the National Museum in Lagos: “All we ask from the world is our treatment of fairness, dignity and respect.”

Holway added that Germany also agreed to return more than 1,000 additional pieces.

The artifacts, known as Benin Bronzes, are the latest return to precious history to Africa, where pressure on Western governments is increasing to restore the elements taken during imperialism.

Four of the artifacts are displayed in the museum courtyard and will remain in the permanent collection of the museum, while others will be returned to Oba of Benin, Ewuare II – the traditional ruler of the Kingdom of Benin in southern Nigeria.

Broken Penin includes metal and ivory statues dating back to the sixteenth centuries to eighteenth.

The elements were stolen in 1897 when the British forces, under the leadership of Sir Henry Rawson, looted the Kingdom of Benin-South Nigeria-and forced OvonramWen Nogbaisi, the king at that time, to the exile of six months.

In 2022, Nigeria officially requested hundreds of things from museums all over the world. In the same year, about 72 of the museums were returned in London, 31 Rod Island returned in the United States.