The Problem With Repatriating Benin Artifacts

The Met has recently had dozens of looted artifacts seized from its collections and returned to their countries of origin. Glasgow Museums, for instance, repatriated their first Lakota object in 1998. Around the same time, they received a request from Nigeria to repatriate a Benin object. They turned that down straight away. Why was that one turned down? They felt that there were issues with Nigeria, where the objects would go, where they'd end up. There was a certain amount of judgement.