Germany signs deal to return stolen art to Nigeria | DW News 

Imagine england would do this boy their museums would contain only fish and chips.

~England left the chat.

Museum of London doesn't like this news

This is long overdue, other countries should take a cue and return all our looted artefact.

I support this as a German, but i do not support this hypocritical, superficial narrative around and propagated resentment and collective punishment As far as i know Germany bought these Artifacts from UK who stole these. So its not "Europe" but explicit Countries. Also the African Continent is not the only continent where this happened in Wars. Germany was also robed in Wars. Till today Art is missing, yet i do not blame a whole continent, but rather the Country who did this and till today did not returned these artifacts. This whole Africa vs. Europe narrative by some media, politicians and activist is just further racist, colonial bs disguised as "for the good cause". As a German i take responsibility for German Crimes, but i do not take responsibility for French or British Crimes. Like i do not blame "all Africans" for Rwanda or other Europeans Nations for German Crimes. What have other "European" countries like Slovenia or Iceland to do with French, British or German Crimes? The subtle idea of collective punishment in this "de-colonial" debate is dark medieval thinking like the colonizer themselves. Peace

"Deal" to return stolen things! It should be an apology and compensation and return all stolen things.

My country germany stole these things, so its fair to give it back to Nigiria, period

An important step! Well done, Germany & Nigeria!

Fun fact. Nigeria is 154/180 for transparency org's corruption index. So I'm just wondering how long it will take those artefacts to end up in someone's private collection

Reparations made by Germany happened about 75 years ago. Strange timing.

If England do that, British museum will be empty 😅!

Remaining these antiques in Germany 🇩🇪 are more securities & historical respectful than returning to Nigeria ...because when( Boko harm) fingers approaching these Nigerian 🇳🇬 antiquities they have been destroyed....similar what ISIS did in (Musel)

I just hope that returning artifacts doesn't put them into danger by looting or by destroying (Isis or similar religious terrorist organization). I don't imply that that they shouldn't be returned, they absolutely should but at the same time, proper safety precautions should be put to place or they could be lost completely, not just to a foreign museums but to all mankind.

May almighty God continue to bless Germany to return those artifacts to Benin City Nigeria 🇳🇬. It is Benin treasure.

We can make perfect replicas of pieces, there is no reason to keep the original

You would think that copies would suffice as artifacts for losing museum.

I’ll be sure to check Ebay once they’re “given” back.

Congrats Germany Only European nation with decency and morality

Brits claim they stole all that stuff fair and square.

They need oil, that’s why they want to undone their wrongs because Nigeria has a lot of oil and gas. Nigeria has to cooperated with their Germany counterparts with caution.

Why steal those artifacts in the first place....smfh😢

Thank you Germany for your radical change in perspective may the other nations follow your leadership and return to Nigerian's what belongs to Nigeria 💚

Congratulations Germany for returning their Cultural History 👏 ❤️

Good job! Now it's time for the other colonial powers to do the same, including the USA.

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Great job, Germany! Everyone in Dresden could see many magnificent pieces of art, some of them, including Sistine Madonna were returned to Germany by the USSR in 1955. Good deeds will never end!

They should leave those stuff here , those things doesn’t really mean nothing, they should fix the country first, because those are been kept in Germany 🇩🇪

What about all the stolen art stolen in WWII?

They only returned 22 and have almost a thousand still in their museum, anyway it’s a good step forward. Good job 👏🏾 Germany.

The U.K. needs to look at this. Badly!!

British museum in England sweating nervously

The artifacts is own by the Benin people ( it was stolen from the palace of the Oba of Benin

Europe needs new energy source. Middle east is mostly commited to Asia. America cannot supply enough. Africa has lots of energy resources. So now, Europe returns the stolen treasures in order have good relations and buy energy. Such a shame that the treasures are only returned to get something in return when it should have been rightfully returned years ago after colonism ended. In the past, Europe said Africa didn't have resources to properly preserve and protect the treasures of Africa but now that Europe needs energy from Africa, all of a sudden Africa has the resources to protect their own treasure. Hopefully, now that the European think Africa can protect it's resources, African countries can get their national treasures back from all over Europe.

Abuja is the capital of Nigeria not Lagos.

Long live my king, Oba ghatorkpere ise

This is so lovely 💛

As a Indian I so long for the Kohinoor be returned back...

U.K so quiet!

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Please Germany should return Nefertiti bust to Egypt. It's one of the most treasured African treasures.

It better it remains in Germany because Nigeria is in a mess and it will always be . Act work is not our problem, where are they going to put the act is it in a museum that has no electricity ? Let stop fooling ourselves, will the act work protect us from bandits or will it secure our villages. We are fighting to bring back act work that can't protect the lives and properties of our people. Zoological Republic

What about stolen Poland art by Germany? For example ,we ask a while ago about this picture. Germany do nothing about it. Poland are worse?

What about the millions of people The Germans killed in Namibia 🇳🇦 pay them people !!!

Nigeria is so corrupt. I predict that the bronzes will “disappear” once they are in the hands of that country.

Those are not just artifacts, but there Spirituality was stolen from them and imposed religion which they don't understand.

i like these news

*Me googling: how to send this to British govt*

Yes , because now Germany has nothing to do with it .

Simple : acting goodwell for the sake of " oil and gas " exploration

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Without Germany these artworks will no longer exists, Nigerian people are burning these artworks for religious beliefs, churches and Christianity in Nigeria have destroyed a lot of artworks, they believed that the artworks are cause of their sufferings. Thank you Germany for preserving these ancient artworks. Please do not return them to Nigeria because the government in Nigeria isn't protecting them

what about British colonial people

The timing is very convenient to give those stolen artifacts back. We need energy security now that we are starting to boycott Russian Gas, Oil and Coal. Guess what fellas, Nigeria turns out to have a lot of gas, oil, Coal and other resources.

Can England return the lotted kohinoor diamond of India?

The museum to house these precious works of art is not even finished !!!🤦

next year: "they were stolen"

its great that they get returned and that the wrong from the past gets turned into a right of the future. but another option would have been to keep a few artifacts and share the museum's revenues with the nigerian people. unfortunatly just like with the returning artefacts, you never can be sure where the money would go to or who would abuse it next. so i guess this is on hindsight the better option since its in nigerias hands what happens with the artifacts from here on.

Collaborate with a thief! What a planet to live on!

What did Nigeria do to Biafra?

Would you look at that

This is good.

My respect ↗️↗️

Awesome

They should return the Nigerian “immigrants” next.

Theye just carved idols

Countries don't usually act out of the kindness of their good heart so I'm really curious about what kind of compensation the German state received in return. Some kind of economic concession, influence in the reagion, "better ties"? I'm glad those artefacts are on their way home but I really wanna know what motivates Germany to do this. After all, foreign policy isn't about ethics, but those little power coupons everyone wants

about time

Here's a question Who does it belong to? The monarchy it's from? The state of Benin is not same as the kingdom of Benin, why does it belong to Nigeria? The capital? When you say it's stolen? Okay...so the kingdom of Benin murdered two British men who was there to to demand the end of slavery of Africans but the kingdom of Benin refused as they made most of their revenue So the British empire responded by sacking the city and destroying the empire by murdering it's diplomats, in war historically you're entitled to war booty or the enemies goods That's how they ended up in Europe, so who deserves it? The conqueror? The royal family of Benin? Benin state? Or Nigeria federal government?

Wow so nice of Germany to return something back after 100 years,. What about the people who where killed, raped and deported as slaves? Why in European textbooks, its so hard to find what Germany did to Afirca? Yes its a shame, but so much of Germany ''as a cilivized country'..

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What about Turkish artifacts? German museums are full of Turkish artifacts. Germans stole from Turks, Russians stole Turkish artifacts from Germans.

Looted them sold back to Germany

Did the British soldiers “loot” these items individually or by order of their commanders? Can you please give more info about the “royal” palace? I am familiar with Western Africa and one thing I was struck with was the absence of any building you could call of African design or build. I hope these items will be as well protected in Nigeria as they were in Germany.

Better do 👍 good..otherwise future citizens edge in their mind you are thieves n robbers

Hurray, now they get stolen and sold to some rich private dude.

That’s great news. Hope the museum in Nigeria is finished soon and they can return swiftly.

Germany: Guten tag Nigeria, we have shot ourselves in the foot by boycotting Russian Oil and Gas. Can you supply us with your Oil and Gas at extremely Cheap rates? Nigeria: what about our stolen 200 year old Artifacts you keep denying to return? You don't even recognise it was stolen. Germany: On its ways!

Amerikkka should return the natives land back and say sorry for slavery

*Brits look away*

So the next one is Poland and all arts etc. Stolen during the WWII.

The art was preserved safely in museum it was history so therefore should remain safely in a museum who knows what will become of it now smh 🤦‍♂️ They will be stolen by next year more than likely.

How can this be a good thing to do for Germany?

A good deal. The other counties should follow.

Keep them for you Germany they are the solid proof that you will never be a friend of Africa. Unless you pay 2 trillion dollars in interest for stilling those treasures for more than five hundred years.

Weg mit den Krempel.

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If Germany gives all the looted art back, they'll have nothing left

So Germany also stolen 🤔 from Nigeria then 🤔 😳

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The looted art is not the REAL DEAL those are REPLICAS!!

The art belongs to whatever archeology team found it. Without looking it up I'll wager this wasn't actually stolen.

A thief signing a document with the owner. The thief must go to jail. Why are we condoning theft?

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Can England return the lotted kohinoor diamond of India?