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Ooni Of Ife Turns 49: A Modern King On An Ancient Throne

By Keem Abdul One of the most important (albeit intangible) assets any individual or entity – whether corporate, geo-political, or even faith-based – can possess in these fast-changing times is the ability and readiness to adapt to the ever-evolving socio-cultural paradigms (as well as the new and potentially-disruptive technologies) that are increasingly defining the ways…

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Metropolitan museum returns looted artefacts to Nigeria

With museums world over returning looted artefacts in their possession, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, on Monday, officially joined the fray, as it returned three works of art looted in the 19th century to Nigeria.

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New York museum gives African royal treasures back to Nigeria-557912

Following recent moves by European museums to return African art treasures to Nigeria, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced Wednesday that it is sending three objects back to the country. Two of the works, a pair of 16th-century Benin Court brass plaques of a Warrior

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Sends Three Benin Bronzes Home To Nigeria

The plaques, produced in what is now Nigeria, were looted during the British military occupation and have been in museums and a private collection since 1897.

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KUOW - Metropolitan Museum of Art Sends Three Benin Bronzes Home To Nigeria

Junior Court Official is one of two 16th-century plaques produced at the Court of Benin that will be returned to Nigeria by the Met.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Sends Three Benin Bronzes Home To Nigeria
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Beautiful bronze sculptures and castings from West Africa have long been exhibited in some of the world's most august institutions, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Wednesday it's returning three of these artworks to Nigeria. They include two 16th-century brass plaques created at the Court of Benin, and a brass head produced in Ife around the 14th century.

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Benin Bronzes: Met Museum returns stolen artifacts to Nigeria

Three artifacts are ready to be returned to Nigeria from the New York-based museum.

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Met Museum will send West African Benin bronzes home to Nigeria as part of repatriation of looted works

They are part of a collection of artefacts that the British army looted in an 1897 raid on Benin City, in what is now Nigeria

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Benin Bronzes: New York's The Metropolitan Museum of Art to return three African artworks to Nigeria

Two 16th-century brass plaques and a 4th-century brass Ife Head will be returned to Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments

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Benin Bronzes: New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to return three African artworks to Nigeria

Two 16th-century brass plaques and a fourth-century brass Ife head will be returned to Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments

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The Met will return three African art objects to Nigeria

Bronze plaques depicting a junior court official (left) and warrior chief were removed from the Royal Palace of Benin in 1897 by the British military
Joining recent moves by European museums to return African art treasures to Nigeria, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced today that is sending three objects back to the country. Two of the works, a pair of 16th-century Benin Court brass plaques of a
Warrior Chief and
Junior Court Official, were donated to the museum in 1991 by the Modern art dealer Klaus Perls and his wife Dolly, while the third, a 14th-century
Ife Head, was recently offered to the museum for purchase by another collector.

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