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Cambridge college hands over looted African bronze


October 28, 2021

CAMBRIDGE: To cheers and a trumpet fanfare, a Cambridge University college on Wednesday handed a bronze statue looted in the 19th century back to Nigerian officials, in the first such move by a UK institution. Sonita Alleyne, the head of Jesus College, gave the elaborately carved cockerel known as “Okukor” to a Nigerian delegation. Okukor was among thousands of African …

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