France Will Return Objects to Benin and Senegal Within a Year

French senators have unanimously voted to return 27 objects held in the country’s museums to Benin and Senegal over the course of the next year. According to a report by the Art Newspaper, the bill concerns 26 statues looted from Benin by the French military in 1892 and a sword that belonged to a 19th-century military leader in West Africa.
The objects that will be returned to Benin are currently held by the Musée du Quai Branly–Jacques Chirac in Paris, which was the site of a