For years, Nigerians, Africans and Africanists have campaigned for the return of the Benin Bronzes, stolen by British troops in 1897 after they sacked Benin in a punitive expedition for the ambush and killing of British troops and their African porters in the kingdom. These bronzes, estimated to be
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