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Germany is to return
artefacts that were plundered from Nigeria during the
era in the late-19th century. The world-
Benin Bronzes are
on display at a museum in Leipzig. The Bronzes comprise a
of more than a thousand metal plaques, sculptures and
. They were created by the Edo people in what used to be the Kingdom of Benin from the 13th century. They decorated the royal
of the Kingdom of Benin, in what is now Nigeria. Most of the
were looted by British forces in 1897. Two hundred pieces were taken to the British Museum in London, while others went to
across Europe. Nigeria has tried for
to get them repatriated.
