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Nigeria just got back 600-year-old Ife artifact from the Netherlands - Face2Face Africa

The Netherlands on Thursday returned a terracotta head to Nigeria in a ceremony in the capital, Abuja. The artifact, believed to be at least 600 years old, was taken from the southwestern city of Ile-Ife and smuggled to Europe through Ghana in 2019, Nigerian officials said. “The smuggler had obtained forged documents” to take it...

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