In Benin City, there has been a huge jump in awareness about the looted objects in the last decade, and artists, historians and activists have intensified their calls for restitution.

This incursion of 1,200 British soldiers captured and sacked Benin City (located in modern day Nigeria), ... Sotheby’s returned it and five other Benin objects to the family that consigned them.

Leaders from the Museum of Fine Arts presented the historic pieces, looted in a 19th century raid, to Nigerian officials in New York.