Now it’s the turn of the British Museum to hand back its Benin bronzes
Nov 05, 2021
2 minutes
esus College, Cambridge, is the first UK institution to restore a looted Benin bronze to Nigeria. The object is an extraordinary sculpture of a cockerel, the Okukor, that once adorned the citystate’s palace, one among 10,000 artworks taken during a punitive expedition by the British in 1897.
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