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Inside Europe:France promises to restitute African artifacts

Lisa Bryant
March 2, 2018

The President of Benin, Patrice Talon will be in Paris on March 6. And his visit may offer the first test of France’s new promise to return African artefacts taken during the colonial era. At issue are treasures from the former kingdom of Dahomey - located in what is now modern-day Benin -which ended up in French museums and private collections. Lisa Bryant has the details from Paris.

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