NPR’s Scott Simon speaks to director Mati Diop about her new documentary, "Dahomey." The film follows the return of royal treasures plundered by French forces.

Benin will receive a throne taken in 1892 from the palace of Behanzin, the last king of what was then Dahomey. Senegal will get a sword that belonged to a 19th-Century sheikh. Former colonial ...

What we are watching is 26 of 7,000 artefacts looted from what is today Benin by 19th-century French troops and now being readied for return to Africa. (The repatriation came after Emmanuel Macron ...