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    Looting history

    Dec 28, 2021 2 minutes

    At no time since 1897, when the Benin Bronzes were looted from the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin (in what’s now Nigeria), have they been discussed as much as they are today.

    In the 1890s, debate focused on how it was that an African kingdom, dismissed and derided as barbarous and uncivilised by the politicians, press and

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