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Two Benin Bronzes which the Church of England intend to return to Africa / Lambeth Palace
The Church of England has promised to return two Benin Bronzes, given as gifts to former Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie almost 40 years ago, to Nigeria. x
“We have recently been contacted by the Digital Benin project at the MARKK (Hamburg) who enquired about our collection of gifts at Lambeth Palace and if we had received any Benin kingdom objects as gifts over the years,” the spokeswoman of Lambeth Palace, the official home of the Archbishop of Canterbury, said.
“In response, we have confirmed to the Digital Benin project that we have two bronze busts, given to us by the Benin kingdom in 1982,” she said.
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The Church of England has committed to returning two Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, according to a report by UK-based Evening Standard.
The bronze statues were gifted to the Archbishop of Canterbury by the former governor of the defunct Bendel State,
Ambrose Alli, and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) in 1982.
Lambeth Palace said in a statement that the two bronze busts will be donated to Digital Benin, an international project to digitally network the globally dispersed works of art from the former Kingdom of Benin plundered by British troops in 1897. We are currently in discussions with the Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA), via the Legacy Restoration Trust, to arrange this, the statement read.
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