“It’s a historic moment for us, for our two countries, that we are now signing an agreement for the return of the Benin Bronzes,” Abba Isa Tijani, director of Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), told DW ahead of the ceremony on Friday.
The Nigerian commission has played a key role in drafting the restitution agreement signed in Berlin on July 1 by Germany’s Foreign…









