French lawmakers have unanimously voted to return prized artefacts to Benin and Senegal more than a century after they were looted by colonial forces and hauled back to Paris to be displayed in museums.
The pieces include a royal throne and statues taken by the French army during a war in Benin—then the wealthy African kingdom of Dahomey—as well a sabre once wielded by a 19th-century Muslim sheik in what is today Senegal.
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