US museum returns two artefacts to Benin Kingdom The Benin Monarch, Omo N’oba N’edo Uku Akpolokpolo Ewuare II, has received prestigious artefacts from the Stanley Museum of Art, University of IOWA in the United States of America. The objects; one wooden carved mother hen and a brass plaque, were among the thousands of artefacts looted from the palace of the Oba of Benin during the 1897 Benin massacre, which eventually found their way to the Stanley Museum of Art. The curator of African art, Stanley Museum of Art, University of IOWA, Cory...