British university to return looted African artifacts

The transfer of the items, expected in the “coming months,” follows a formal request made in 2022, Nigeria’s National Collections has said

The University of Cambridge has announced it will return more than 100 artifacts looted from Nigeria during a 19th-century British military expedition. The move comes amid growing demands for museums in the UK to repatriate cultural items taken during colonial rule to their countries of origin.

The objects...