{"id":55208,"date":"2019-12-17T14:46:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T06:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=55208"},"modified":"2019-12-17T14:46:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T06:46:32","slug":"france-promises-to-return-looted-benin-statues-by-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=55208","title":{"rendered":"France promises to return looted Benin statues by 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/worldNews\/France-promises-to-return-looted-Benin-statues-by-2021-817540?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/424\/42440854.295.jpg\" alt=\"Three Great Royal Statues of ancient Dahomey are displayed at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Three Great Royal Statues of ancient Dahomey are displayed at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PORTO-NOVO, Dec 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The French culture minister says his government will return artworks taken from Benin during the colonial conquest of the region by 2021.<br><br>Franck Riester was speaking on a visit to Benin.<br><br>France promised last year to send back 26 pieces now in the Quai Branly museum in Paris without delay, but Benin said it needed time to build a proper exhibition facility.<br><br>The 26 thrones and statues were taken in 1892 during a colonial war against the then Kingdom of Dahomey.<br><br>Their return is expected to put pressure on other former colonial powers to hand back artefacts taken during the colonial era.<br><br>During colonial rule in Africa, thousands of cultural artifacts were seized from the continent by Western countries.<br><br>An experts&#8217; report from last year states that most of the Africa collection in the Quai Branly museum &#8211; approximately 46,000 pieces &#8211; was acquired with some degree of duress. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Great Royal Statues of ancient Dahomey are displayed at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris PORTO-NOVO, Dec 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The French culture minister says his government will return artworks taken from Benin during the colonial conquest of the region by 2021. Franck Riester was speaking on a visit to Benin. France promised last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}