News Benin Currency: Small London museum officially returns 72 looted Benin treasures stolen by British imperial troops in 1897 to Nigeria
A small museum in south-east London has begun the official process of returning 72 looted Benin bronzes to Nigeria. The items were taken by force from Benin City in 1897 and have been returned by ...
News Benin Currency: Benin Bronzes: Nigeria hails 'great day' as London museum signs over looted objects
A UK museum's signing over of its collection of objects looted from the Kingdom of Benin is "a really great day", the head of Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments has told the BBC.
News Benin Currency: US campaign group sues Smithsonian over return of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
“We specially oppose the return of the 16th-to 19th-century metal bronzes because they were made with melted manilla currency [that] the Benin Kingdom was paid in exchange for our ancestors they ...
News Benin Currency: 9 great precolonial African kings you need to know
The royal African legacy consists of successful military strategists, church founders, supporters of the arts, and trailblazers in currency design ... the Great,” Benin Empire (Nigeria) 1440 ...
News Benin Currency: Rice O Compatriots: Dissecting Emefiele’s Rice Pyramids
Before the British destroyed it in the ancient days when they invaded the palace of the Oba of Benin, a pyramid symbolizing the power ... More than any other time, increased inflow of hard currency ...
News Benin Currency: Attacks in north Benin park kill 8 including French citizen
COTONOU, Benin (AP) — Attacks by suspected Islamic extremists in ... As the popularity and demand for digital currency grows, more mining data centers have popped up across the country, including one ...
